Patents by Inventor Charles C. Kelber

Charles C. Kelber has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4666104
    Abstract: A combination lift and thrust device for increasing the performance of an aircraft by simultaneously reducing drag and augmenting the thrust of a turbojet engine carried within the device. The device comprises a wing of generally airfoil shape having numerous geometrically spaced apertures penetrating its surface, a turbojet engine carried within the wing, an elongated exhaust plenum attached to the turbojet having a number of strategically positioned exhaust nozzles, and a mixing chamber having a forward opening and a rear nozzle also carried within the wing. The mixing chamber forward opening is cooperatively associated with the exhaust nozzles to form an ejector drawing air through the apertures in the wing into the forward opening, mixing the air with the exhaust gases from the turbojet to provide thrust augmentation, and exhausting the air and gas mixture from the rear nozzle of the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1987
    Inventor: Charles C. Kelber