Landing apparatus for airship and the like
AssigneeMasakatsu Takahashi
InventorMasakatsu Takahashi
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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.
Claims6
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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.