Patent GB-175583-A (GB)
Title: Windings for alternate current dynamo electric machines
IPC: F16F7/06
Filed: 1920-08-05
Abstract: 175,583. Creedy, F. Aug. 5, 1920. Alternating-current induction machines;dynamos, regulating; motors, controlling.- Relates to windings for alternating-current machines adapted for use as primaries on one or more pole numbers and simultaneously as secondaries on another or other pole numbers or for use as secondaries on two or more pole numbers with resistance control on one of them. According to the invention, such windings are composed of sections grouped in one or more star-mesh networks, such section or set of sections being interconnected permanently and the pole numbers being changed in ratios other than 2 to 1 without changes of the connections in the sections. The sections are so arranged that the number of phases in the sections in a set is greater than the number of supply phases applied to the set, the pole number being altered by changing the phases in the set. Fig. 1 shows a winding composed of twelve sections each indicated by a ring linked to a black circle and hearing numbers which they receive consecutively around the machine circumference. Alternate sections, reversed, form a mesh to the points of which the remainder are connected as star arms, the beginnings of the latter being joined to the ends of the former and vice versa. When supplied with currents of phases indicated by the plain and underlined figures, this winding gives 2 and 4 poles respectively and when the star arms are joined to a common point, as shown in Fig. 4, it gives 8 poles. An alternative 2-pole connection is given by dividing the sections into two 3-limb star-mesh groups coupled in parallel to the supply, and an alternative 8-pole grouping by reversing the star sections in Fig. 1 without the use of a ccmmon point. It is a feature of these windings that by reversal of half of the sections they may be changed from a pole number A, say, to another B, A being as much less than as B is greater than half the number of sections. If the number of mesh sides exceeds six they are wound with fewer turns than the star sections or subsidiary electromotive forces are applied to the star terminals. When the sections are so grouped that several terminals are connected to the same supply phase the number of star sections has a common factor not less than 2 with the difference between half this number and each of the pole numbers on which the winding acts as a primary. A 36-section winding W is shown in Fig. 5 with an 18-phase transformer Tr and controller Co for giving 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 or 16 poles on a 3-phase supply which is connected to the transformer at L1, L2, L3. The controller comprises four 9-pole and one 2-pole 2-way switches connected to correspondingly numbered winding sections and points on the transformer. The Figure shows the connections for 16 poles. With switches A, C, I closed, 6 poles are given, as in Fig. 6. Switch manipulation and diagrams of section groupings are given in the Specification for the other pole numbers, all of which show that the connections of Fig. 5 are retained, the connections to the supply only being changed. The transformer is as described in Specification 123,395 and the arrangement gives a reduced voltage on each section as the number of poles is increased. Simplifications of the transformer and controller are described for giving smaller numbers of poles. The addition of switches for reversing the star sections with respect to the mesh sections enables this winding to give all pole numbers except 18 from 6 to 24. The use of such section-reversal is applicable generally to the windings described as a means for increasing the available pole numbers. A 24-section winding comprising two independent star-mesh groups of the form shown in Fig. 1 is described, together with a transformer and controller for giving 8, 10, 14 and 16 poles. Fig. 13 shows a 24-section winding comprising two sets of sections respectively even and odd joined in pairs, alternate pairs being mutually reversed. This gives 8 or 10 poles. A rule is given, in terms of the number r of equally spaced groups of P + Q sections each, P and Q being the number of pole pairs, for guiding the controller connections so as to obtain the desired phases in the sections on given pole numbers. With alternate star terminals short-circuited and the others open, these windings act as cascade windings as described in Specification 175,306 and resistance control on the open arms may be used for bring- ing an internally cascaded motor up to a basal speed. Also, when the star-mesh groups are connected in pairs or larger sets the windings will act simultaneously as primaries on one pole member and secondaries on another, e.g. the winding of Fig. 6 will serve as a primary on an internally csacaded motor, producing 6 poles and acting as secondary on 10 poles. When used as a secondary only, such a winding wili serve as a short-circuited secondary on one pole number and with resistance control on another. Thus, with the terminals in Fig. 6 permanently connected in sets of six, a 6-pole secondary for resistance control between the resulting three terminals is obtained while on other pole numbers the winding is short-circuited. Specifications 18887/14 and 143,600 are referred to.