Ground effect machine

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A GROUND EFFECT MACHINE HAVING A BODY AND MEANS FOR PRODUCING A SUPPORTING CUSHION OF AIR BENEATH SAID BODY, A HOUSING MOUNTED ON SAID BODY AND INCLUDING A HOLLOW BASE PORTION, AN INTERMEDIATE UPSTANDING TUBULAR PORTION MOUNTED ON THE BASE PORTION. A CLOSED UPPER END ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID TUBULAR PORTION, A HOLLOW PROPELLER SHAFT ROTATABLY CARRIED BY AND LATERALY PROJECTING FROM THE UPPER END PORTION AND HAVING AN OUTER END PORTION AND PROPELLER HUB MOUNTED ON PROPELLER BLADES MOUNTED ON SAID BUB AND EXTENDING RADIALLY THEREFROM FOR ROTATIN THEREWIHT, MEANS MOUNTING SAID BLADES FOR PITCH ADJUSTMENT THEREOF ABOUT THEIR LONGITUDINAL AXES, A DRIVE SHAFT ROTATABLY JOURNALLED IN THE BASE PORTION, A HOLLOW DRIVEN SHAFT EXTENDING AXIALY WITHIN SAID TUBULAR PORTION, GEAR MEANS DRIVINGLY CONNECTING SAID DRIVE AND DRIVEN SHAFTS, GEAR MEANS DRIVEINGLY CONNECTING SAID DIRVEN AND PROPELLER SHAFTS, A FIRST PUSH ROD AXIALY EXTENDING THROUGH SAID DRIVEN SHAFT, A SECOND PUSH ROD EXTENDING AXIALLY THROUGH SAID PROPELLER SHAFT AND HAVING MEAN FOR CONNECTION TO THE BLADE SHSFT, A SECOND PUSH ROD EXTENDING AXIALLY THROUGH SAID PROPELLER SHAFT AND HAVING MEANS FOR CONNECTION TO THE BLADE MOUNTING MEANS FOR VARYING THE PITCH OF THE BLADE IN RESPONSE TO AXIAL MOVEMENTS THEREOF, MEAN MOUNTED IN THE UPPER END PORTION CONNECTING SAID RODS AND TRANSLATING THE AXIAL MOVEMENT OF SAID FIRST PUSH ROD TO SAID SECOND PUSH ROD, OPERATING MEANS CONNECTED TO SIAD FIRST PUSH ROD AND OPERABLE BY AN OPERATOR OF THE MACHINE FORM HIS ZONE OF OPERATION REMOTE FROM THE HOUSING, MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID UPPER END PORTION TO ALTER THE POSITION OF SAID PROPELLER IN AZIMUTH, AND CONTROL MEANS FOR SAID LAST MEANS, SAID CONTROL MEANS BEING OPERABLE BY THE OPERATOR INDEPENDENT OF SAID ABOVE-MENTIONED OPERATING MEANS.