A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION
Year: 1884

page_text: We WILLIAM HARDING SCOTT of 36 Park Street Nottingham, Nottinghamshire,
Electrician and EDWARD ALEXANDRE PARIS of 1 Warbeck Road Shepherds Bush
in the' County of Middlesex Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION," to
be as follows that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object the distribution of electricity for the purposes
illumination or motive power in a new or improved manner.
According to this Invention a high tension current is produced at one or more
stations which stations may be advantageously placed outside the town or place
to which the electrical energy is to be supplied whether for purposes of illumi-
nation or motive power. The high tension current is led off by means of wires or
mains to convenient centres where it is transformed into low tension electricity by
means of transformers. These transformers consist of field magnets as in dynamos
or motors and a revolving armature which is wound with two sets of conductors
one set for the high tension current and the other set for the low tension current.
The armature consists of a drum with magnets or a fixed iron core inside and it
may be of the kind described in the Specification of our application for a Patent
No 4683 and Dated 11 March 1884 or it may be constructed according to our
Invention for which we have made application for a Patent at the same time as
this our present Application or the two methods may be combined and the high
tension conductor be wound with wire according to our first Invention and the
low tension conductor be made up of strips and plates according to our second
Invention.
These transformers are placed in both the high tension and low tension circuit
in parallel so that they are independent of one another. The field magnet may
be excited either by the low tension current or by a separate current from the
generating station. The high tension circuits of the transformers may be in
parallel series but only in series to a limited extent.

page_text: We, WILLIAM HARDING SCOTT of 36 Park Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Electrician, and EDUARD ALEXANDRE PARIS of 1 Warbeck Road, Shepherd's Bush
in the county of Middlesex Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION," and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement that is to say:-
Our said Invention has for its object the distribution of electricity for the
purposes of illumination or motive power in a new or improved manner.
According to our said Invention a high tension current is produced at one or
more stations which stations may be advantageously placed outside the town
or place to which the clectrical energy is to be supplied whether for purposes of
illumination or motive power. This high tension current is led off by means
of wires or mains to convenient centres where it is transformed into low tension
electricity by means of transformers.
And in order that our said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood we proceed at once to describe the same with the aid
of the diagram on the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings. In these
drawings the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
The high tension current is produced by a generator, 1, which may be placed
advantageously outside the town or place to be supplied with electrical energy,
and this high tension current is led off by means of wires or mains, 2, to suitable
transformers, 3, placed at convenient centres. These transformers convert the high
tension current into. low tension electricity, and they consist of field magnets as in
dynamos or motors and a revolving armature which armature is wound with two
sets of conductors, one set for the high tension current and the other set for the
low tension current. The armature consists of a drum with magnets or a fixed
iron core inside and it may be of the kind described in the Specification of Letters
Patent granted to us and dated 11 March 1884, No 4683, or it may be constructed
according to the method described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to
us and dated 10 April 1884 No 6261, or the two methods may be combined and
the high tension conductor be wound with wire according to our Invention described
in the first of the aforementioned Specifications and the low tension conductor be
made up of strips and plates according to the second Specification. These trans-
formers, 3, are placed in both the high tension (2) and low tension circuit (4) in
parallel so that they are independent of one another. The field magnet may
be excited either by the low tension current or by a seperate current from the
generating station, 1, The high tension circuits of the transformers 3, may be
in parallel series but only in series to a limited extent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
The arranging of transformers (3,) both in the high tension and the low tension
circuit in parallel so as to be independent of one another substantially as herein-
before described with reference to the accompanying diagram.