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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 28, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Winfried M Feifel, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E05D / ; B64C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
16162 ; 114274 ; 244213 ; 244215 ; 244131 ; 403292 ;
Abstract
A hinge assembly between a lifting foil (12) and an associated flap (14) wherein the flap (14) includes a series of sections (20, 22). In one embodiment, each section (20,22) may be rotatably mounted by a single hinge (24) to the foil (12) and interconnected by a coupling device (34) to an adjacent flap section. Additionally, a shear key coupling device (40) may be arranged between each pair of sections (20, 22) substantially extending to the trailing edge of each section (20, 22).