Landing apparatus for airship and the like

• US 5,509,624 A
• Filed: 05/25/1994
• Issued: 04/23/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chizuko Yamada, Kentaro Takahasi, Masakatsu Takahashi, Megumi Hashimoto, Ryutaro Takahashi, Toki Takahashi
• Original Assignee: Masakatsu Takahashi
• Inventors: Takahashi, Masakatsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Barefoot, Galen L.
• Application Number:
  US08/133,183
• Time in Patent Office: 699 Days
• Field of Search: 244/115, 244/116, 244/110 C
• US Class Current: 244/115
• CPC Class Codes: B64B 1/005 Arrangements for landing or taking-off, e.g. alighting gear
• CPC Class Codes: B64B 1/66 Mooring attachments

Abstract

A landing apparatus for an airship or the like is composed of a windlass 2, 3 mounted on the lower part of said airship 1, a tugging hawser 4, 5 releasably wound in said windlass 2, 3, a mooring device 6, 7 connected to a leading end of said hawser 4, 5 and a lashing rope 9, 10 horizontally extended spaced relation from a landing space 8. The airship can be landed by its own power when the hawser 4, 5 hanging from the airship is engaged with the lashing rope 9, 10, and is wound by the windlass 2, 3. The airship can be landed on a narrow landing space 8 since the airship is not blown off by the wind.

Claims

1. A landing apparatus for an airship or the like comprising:

(a) a tugging hawser;

(b) a windlass;

(c) a mooring device;

(d) at least two lashing ropes;

wherein said windlass is mounted on the lower part of said airship;

wherein said hawser is coiled in the windlass and can be spooled out;

wherein said mooring device is connected to said tugging hawser for engaging at least one of said lashing ropes during landing of said airship; and

wherein said lashing ropes are horizontally extended above a landing space; and

(e) separate means for fixing both ends of each of said lashing ropes above said landing space until said airship has completed landing.

2. The landing apparatus for an airship of claim 1, wherein said airship or the like is provided with at least two windlasses.

3. The landing apparatus for an airship of claim 1, comprising at least two pairs of windlasses mounted in both fore and back parts on the lower part of said airship such that a center of buoyancy of the airship is interposed.

4. The landing apparatus for an airship of claim 1, wherein said at least two lashing ropes are crossed each other.

5. The landing apparatus of claim 1 wherein said means for fixing comprises bitts for respectively retaining one end of each of said at least two lashing ropes so that the ropes can be let out;

a free end of each of said ropes being detachably engaged with a respective one of additional bitts;

said ropes having a length to pass over the airship so as to be fixed for safely mooring the airship after it has landed.

6. The landing apparatus for an airship of claim 1, wherein the length of each of said at least two lashing ropes is greater than the width of said airship.