One month later, in August 1895, Zeppelin received a patent for Kober's design, described as an "airship-train" ("" airship-train with several carrier structures arranged one behind another.) The patent describes an airship consisting of three rigid sections flexibly connected. The front section, intended to contain the crew and engines, was long with a gas capacity of 9514 cu m (336,000 cu ft): the middle section was long with an intended useful load of and the rear section long with an intended load of