Improvements in and relating to "stressed skin" fuselages or nacelles for aircraft

Abstract

Abstract 524,721. Aircraft fuselages. AMIOT, F. Feb. 4, 1939, Nos. 3767 and 3768. Convention dates, Feb. 5, 1938 and Jan. 14, 1939. [Class 4] A fuselage or nacelle for aircraft is built up of sections each comprising a stressed skin mounted on a framework of transverse and longitudinal elements, the various sections being united end to end by means of rims secured to the skin and to the longitudinal elements so as to give mechanical and surface continuity. Each section comprises a skin 5 secured to Z-section longitudinal elements 4 and to transverse frames 12, Fig. 8, which are cut to embrace the longitudinal members 4 to which they are secured by brackets 15. Intermediate rings 13, Fig. 9, are secured to the members 4 by brackets 17. The ends of each section have L-members 7, Fig. 3, secured to the skin and to brackets 10 which are riveted to the longitudinal members 4, and adjacent sections are secured together by bolts 8 passing through the radial flanges of the members 7. Fig. 10 shows a modification in which, in addition to end rims 19, the skin of one section overlaps and is riveted to a recessed portion of the skin of the adjacent section. To facilitate assembly longitudinal members may project from one section to engage within an adjacent section.

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