. The railroad and engineering journal . mployed to transferelectric energy from currents of low potential and greatquantity into currents of high potential and small quan-tity, the function of the secondary generator or converteras applied in our invention is precisely the reverse of this,namely, to transfer electric energy from currents of highpotential to currents of low potential and increased quan-tity. We have constructed converters for effecting thisresult in a variety of forms, all of which involve the sameprinciple. In order that this principle may be better un-derstood, we will descr
. The railroad and engineering journal . mployed to transferelectric energy from currents of low potential and greatquantity into currents of high potential and small quan-tity, the function of the secondary generator or converteras applied in our invention is precisely the reverse of this,namely, to transfer electric energy from currents of highpotential to currents of low potential and increased quan-tity. We have constructed converters for effecting thisresult in a variety of forms, all of which involve the sameprinciple. In order that this principle may be better un-derstood, we will describe the construction and mode ofoperation of a simple form of the converter which we haveshown at cin figure i. Two iron cores b,b\-&.xe. preferablybuilt up from a large number of small soft iron wires, in-sulated from each other and mechanically secured to-gether in a solid bundle. It is usually preferable to unitethe ends of the cores so that they wdl become magneti-•cally continuous. In figure 3 for example, we have shown c^.t:. ^ »r J> ■ . j- f • f- ■ .^ r ^ITZ ^r^^:. £ *^ - f i -^ *^
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