UnitTep STATES “NHKOBA ESLA, OF © PATENT OFFICE. EW YORK, N.Y. APPARATUS .FOR PRODUCING CURRENTS: OF HIGH FREQUENCY. ‘The invention upeit-whi plietion 1s based is an ii meni 16 foF the eanversion of electrical ‘af onliuary character—auch; for fuatanee, as, are obtainable fromthe malas 6f-nunicipal cecirie light and power. syste id either: continuons’ ur ilteraating-—int very high frequeney dul potenti > tthe improveinent is applicable generals to’ apparatus of the kind heretofore invented by me andanore purticnlarly described io States Letters Vatent granted to me oti § IRUG, Nu, 4681705 but in the de- f the Sovention whieh fo illustration iscentined té.a form of apparatus designed for ow : ‘or di- yeet current into woe of high-frequency. Ju the several fonns of apparatus for this pur- hich T have devised and heretofore de- nal I haveemployed.a circuit of high self- buluction connected with tho-mains-from a suitable xouree of éurrent and: coittaining some form uf cireuit-controtlor for periodic: ally interrupting it. -Aronnd the break or point of interruption I have arranged a e1in- deuser, into which the cirenit dischatyes when rereupted, aud this condenser is in turn made lo discharge through a cirenit coutain- | ing the primary of a transformer, ani-of such character Usat the condenser-discharge will ‘be in the form of an,extremely rapid steces- sion of impulses. "- ‘Now in order fo sceure fn un apparatus of this kind as high froysoncy as possible and dhe advantages resniting therefrum I subdi- iy“present-ay 15 e a 4 3 vide the condenser necessary for storing the energy required into integral parts or provide Ay eats independent condensers, nid: em fr condenser i of the-clteitit conn , bat.Lhave accomplished it by: means 10 apparatus whiel’ {shill now proceed 55 ibé by’reforbnce to the drawings.” yT Isa sidé-clevation of the appara Lompliy, and Pig Sis x diagram ons: pias ite Hefersing te Fig: 1,°A is a box or case con- 60 tg rs ig motinted asmall-tlectron ‘|-by thi''shatt af'whiell id operated the cireuit- * t8'| controller C.,, Upon thie-snjd controtler bear 65 brushes, as shown it DDD" D". F Karo self-induction coils jilaced-beside cave, and niay nstraction and he very xreatl, relativeacriugentent, Thévircuit-cuntroller, Jiywever, shoul conform int getieral prinei- ple-of construction to. that, hereinafter de- Beribed in $0 fir as may be necessity 10 so- eure the operation poiuted out. Referring now lo Fig. 2, LL designate the aains from a suitable souree of supply, be- tween which a, circuit is formed, including 50 the self-induction evils FF and the-cireult- controlicr C. A swifeh d may be en to either or both of i this eireuit, as'may: be di ‘The cireult-euntroller is-buiit upol insu- lated platesor scymenty, upou which the pesi- tive and negative brushes bear, aud "these platesmay be considered as belonging t0throo. sels or classes, first, the plates m for what may bo cousidered 48 the positive brnshes. go (es, Which ligin both rows, and hence are conveniently made in single’ pieces ox- tending neross the controller, and, third, the idle or spacing platos p, which are interposed. 1 eaeh tow belaveen the other twosets, ‘The angle between adjacent plates of the same sel is eqital to the angle of displacement be- tween adjacent brushes of the same sign, and viously there miay be fwo or more of Gach. ho Lrush D of one set is connected with one2 583,953 main through the ooils F, and cach one of the | Tho advantages resulting from the subdi- brnshes of ‘the same’ set, is.conneeted to one | vision of the condenser or the employment of of the torminals‘of the condensers MUN, re- | a plurality of condensers are mainly that 2 spectively... Similarly the brush Bof the other | high frequency is obtainmble in apparatus of 5 set of brushes. is coumtcted to: the opposite | any-sizo; that thecurrentofdischarge through 55 main and-each of.the:brushes.of said set'to} tho ing contdets. is greatly reduced. and .» the spnealtecoudenser term ls through the ‘to such contacts thereby avoided and + primary-or strands of. inary G,: in the |. iw wire in the secondary ef diagrain, Fig-2, Thaveata or brs bashes . ' 40 in each get and two" condensers, -bit. mdi W hat Veclain bo paratus wf the kind described, nation.with a sef of contacts, one ‘hich is adapted for councction with one the wwains froma source of current, and than this namber may be used, the danie pian of ‘connectionsshown and described being fu : ition of the ‘paris showa in F 15 34a "two ‘positive. and. two nega ‘brushes are’ shown, the brushes, are bearin: . onplates vi mand a 1. / Cqnsoqt cult.throuph the colls. uently tie irs inely connected tothe. ph theeon ndlenser terminals, re- Iy etched plages or chich the contaetsof the first 70 hitly-conneeted -plates. upon of the, second. set bear, muon to the two sets ; “neromrtlic idle orcspac- |: sing tee pronto the long or crass:counceted, ins. 25 plates v two results’ follow: ‘The n phort-eirenited:throngh the coils F rg in maul therefore store energy, while the conicnsers r as Set forth. are counosted in series through tho primary. ARAL of the Kind. described coil or coils Gi. These. actions ‘are. repciited nation witha set of positive hen 40 by the further. movenent.of Lhe eontrofler; kone of which is sdupted Tor connection Bo thoeondensers being clit paralfel when | one of tho maitis. from a suuree of .curren viirbes are ob plates m1 attd discharged | aud enehof wich fs ennuieeted to _. ‘in series when the hfushes pass onto plates a; |-Lerininals of ageries of condensers, ‘The: mator-may'be run by au independent | tive brushes similarly connected to th 35. Source or by garrent derived from the umins, i and the apparatus, may-be employed to sup- | tively, af a cylinder composed of clert ply current for any suitable devices § T, con- | connected segmonts-upou which the p neeted with the secondary coil II. . brushes only bear, similurly-connecied seg. ‘As-stated above, the specific constrnetion | ments epon which the neyative Lrashes ouly of the eireult-controller, may be very greatly | hewr, aud isolated plates upon whick both 90 varied without departure from {be invention. | sets of brushes simultaneously bear, the sa Ja the drawings the phites are assumed to be| plaics being arranged in the manuer d associated in the form of a cylinder which | scribed, wherby the condensers will be alte: revolves with respect to brashes bearing on Hiple and discharged in 45 its;peripherys but it will be understood that thin is merely a typical illustration of any farm of torminnls.or contacts and condue- | tors, Whether: rotary or-reciprocating, whieh constitute a cirenit-cuntroller capalle of cf. Dyer, ® fecling Ui6 same rosult, Lt W. Coort 3 4 NIKOLA TE AL Witnesses:fo Model.) : N. TESLA. . "APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING CURRENTS OF HIGH FREQUENCY. No, 683,063. Patented June 8, 1897, ~ - WITMESSES INVENTOR : 4 A Loni, . Bihote Leela_ aon BAljdmare Hama. Carles lege ATTORNEYS,