Franz Schneider was a
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engineer and aircraft designer. Although he designed several aircraft types, initially for the
French aircraft manufacturer
Nieuport, and later for the German
LVG
Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. (L.V.G. or LVG) was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Berlin-Johannisthal (Berlin), Johannisthal, which began constructing aircraft in 1912, building Farman Aviation Works, Farman-type aircraft. The company c ...
company, he is chiefly remembered for his work in the field of aircraft armament.
Schneider was granted the first
patent
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(on 15 July 1913) for an
interrupter gear allowing a
machine gun to fire between an aircraft's spinning
propeller
A propeller (often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working flu ...
blades. Full details of Schneider's patent were published in the aviation periodical ''
Flugsport'' in September 1914 but the
Prussian War Ministry chose not to pursue the idea. The concept of interrupter gear in combat aircraft was realised later in World War I by Germany after
Anthony Fokker
Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker (6 April 1890 – 23 December 1939) was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer. He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World War such ...
developed the idea.
He also developed the rotating gun turret which was installed on
German "C" type
World War I
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aircraft.
[van Wyngarden, G (2006). Early German Aces of World War I, Osprey Publishing Ltd. ]
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