Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft – heavier-than-air – Helicopter or auto-rotating wing sustained – i.e. – gyroplanes
Patent
1983-09-22
1985-09-10
Barefoot, Galen
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft, heavier-than-air
Helicopter or auto-rotating wing sustained, i.e., gyroplanes
244232, 244233, 745015R, 74 96, B64C 1330
Patent
active
045401411
ABSTRACT:
Helicopter tail rotor control system having a quadrant (18) with two flexible cables (20,22) wrapped around the quadrant surface in opposing directions and each attached to the quadrant at a point (42,60) opposite to initial contact of the cable with the quadrant, and spring extension (44, 62) from each cable passing around a pulley (46) and attached to the quadrant at a point on a radial line with the cable attachment.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2280106 (1942-04-01), Sturgess
patent: 2787916 (1957-04-01), Cushman
patent: 4170147 (1979-10-01), Dunno et al.
patent: 4186622 (1980-02-01), Cooper
patent: 4198877 (1980-04-01), Huling
Durno Ronald A.
Huber Rudolph F.
Barefoot Galen
Lipes, Jr. Russell M.
United Technologies Corporation
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