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To all whom concern:
Be known that ikola Tesla, citi
zen the United States, residing, New
York, the county and State New York,
5 have invented certain new and useful Im
provements Methods Regulating Appa
ratus for Producing.
METHOD REGULATING APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING CURRENTS HIGH FREQUENCY.
NIKOLA TESLA, NEW YORK, Y.
ApplicationfiledJune20,1896, Serial N
o. There are therefore
various ways which the frequencies of
.
It well known that every electric circuit,
provided its ohmic resistance does not exceed 65
certain definite limits, has period vibra
tion its own analogous the period vi
bration weighted spring. accomplish this,
the number impulses current directed
into the charging-circuit per unit time is
made equal the period the charging-cir- 90
cuit itself, or, generally, harmonic there
of, and the same relations are maintained
betweenthe charging and discharge circuit.
35 Considering the conditions necessary for
the attainment these results, there will
be found, the essential elements the
system, the supply-circuit, from which the
periodic impulses are obtained, and what
40 may regarded the local circuits, com
prising the circuit high self-induction for
charging the condenser and the circuit of
low self-induction into which the condenser
discharges and which itself may constitute
45 the working circuit, that containing the
devices for utilizing the current, maybe
inductively related secondary circuit
whichconstitutes the working circuit proper. The special apparatus this char
acter which have devised for use with cir-
. order al
ternately charge given circuit this char
acter periodic impulses impressed upon 7c
;and discharge most effectively, the fre
quency the impressed impulses should bear
a definite relation the frequency vibra
tion possessed the circuit itself.20 cuits carrying currents the nature those
classed direct, such are generally ob
tainable from the ordinary circuits used in
municipal systems incandescent lighting,
is based upon the following principles:
25 The energy the direct-current supply is
periodically directed into and stored cir
cuit relatively high self-induction, and in
such form employed charge condenser
or circuit capacity, which, turn, is
30 caused discharge through circuit low
self-induction containing means whereby the
intermittent current discharge raised to
the potential necessary for producing any de
sired effect.nited States Patent Office.
In previous patents and applications have
shown and described method and appa
ratus for generating electric currents high
frequency suitable for the production va-
15 rious novel phenomena, such illumination
by means vacuum-tubes, the production
of ozone, Roentgen shadows, and other pur
poses. 568,178, dated September 23, 1896.
Inasmuch the period any given cir
cuit depends upon the relations its resist- 100
ance,self-induction, and capacity, variation
of any one more these may result a
variation its period.
These several circuits, will understood,
50 may more less interconnected; but for
purposes illustration they may regarded
as practically distinct, with circuit-con
troller for alternately connecting the con
denser with the circuit which charged
and with that into which discharges, and 55
with primary transformer the lat
ter circuit having its secondary that which
contains the devices operated the current. When the
conditions are such that the general law of
harmonic vibrations followed, the circuits 80
are said resonance electromag
netic synchronism, and this condition have
found system highly advanta
geous.
To this system combination the inven
tion, subject present application, per- 60
tains, and has for its object provide a
proper and economical means regulation
therefor. Hence practice adjust the elec
trical constants the circuits that nor- 85
mal operation this condition resonance is
approximately attained.
Any departure from this condition will re
sult decreased output, and this fact 95
take advantage regulating such output
by varying the frequencies the impulses
or vibrations the several circuits. 596,262, (N
om
odel. More
over, for like reasons the period vibration 75
of the discharge-circuit should bear similar
relation the impressed impulses the
period the charging-circuit.'
SPECIFICATION form ing part Letters atent No.Currents High Fre
quency, which the following specifica
tion, reference being had the drawings ac-
io companying and forming part the same
