Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1886.
Complete Left, 28th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 5th Apr., 1887.
I, ARTHUR HERVEY BYNG of Rugby House, Southsea in the County of Hants
Esquire, Retired Naval Officer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This
My invention consists of a novel regulator for high tension electric currents.
regulator is composed of a number of pieces of foil or thin sheet metal, preferably tin
or zinc, placed upon or against a piece of wood or other suitable bad conductor, in a
straight or other line and with a space or interval between each foil or metallic piece
and that next following. One of the wires from the battery is connected by a binding
screw or otherwise to the foil or metallic piece at the one end of the regulator and the
other wire is connected to a spring clamp or other suitable device which can be moved
upon the regulator so as make contact with any one of the foils or metallic pieces.
According to the position of this clamp, that is to say, according to the number of
foils or metallic pieces between it and the other wire and to the space between these
foils, so is the strength of the current regulated. My regulator thus formed constitutes
what I may term a semi conductor and by its use any desired degree of under strength
may be secured from the battery.
J. C. MEWBURN,
169, Fleet Street, London,
Agent.

page_text: I ARTHUR HERVEY BYNG, of Rugby House, Southsea, in the County of Hants,
Esquire, Retired Naval Officer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of a novel regulator for high tension electric currents. This
regulator, which is intended more particularly for use in electrified rooms such as
those described in my Specification No. 2760 of 1886, is composed of a number of
pieces of foil or thin sheet metal, preferably tin, zinc, or brass placed upon or against
a piece of wood or other suitable bad conductor, in a straight or other line and with
a space or interval between each foil or metallic piece and that next following and an
insulating or semi-insulating material can be placed in these intervals. One of the
wires from the battery is connected by a binding screw or otherwise to the foil or
metallic piece at the one end of the regulator and the other wire is connected to a
spring clamp or other suitable device which can be moved upon the regulator so as to
make contact with any one of the foils or metallic pieces. According to the position
of this clamp, that is to say: according to the number of foils or metallic pieces
between it and the other wire and to the space between these foils so is the strength
of the current regulated. My regulator thus formed constitutes what I may term a
semi-conductor and by its use any desired degree of under-strength may be secured
from the battery.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings is a front elevation and Figure 2 a side elevation
of one of my regulators. a is a piece of wood or other suitable bad conductor which
should be secured to the wall of the room or other convenient place and insulated
therefrom, b; b represent a number of pieces of foil or other metallic pieces secured
to the wood a. These pieces b, b may be at any desired distance apart but I find in
practice that it is best to place them as close together as possible without actual
contact. A convenient way of applying them is to secure a strip of foil or thin metal to
the wood a and then to cut the said strip transversely as shown by the transverse lines
in Figure 1. c is a binding screw connecting the foil or metallic piece at the one end
of the regulator to one of the wires d connected with the battery; in the case of the
electrified room herein before referred to; the wire from the binding screw.c.may be
connected with the ceiling conductor. e is a spring clamp which can be moved up
and down the regulator by means of a handle e¹ of non-conducting material so as to
make contact by means of the metallic brush or tail with any one of the foils or
metallic pieces b, b. To the clamp e the other wire d' is connected; this wire is con-
nected to a metal plate or piece g surrounded by an insulating handle h. This handle
is intended to be held by the person requiring to apply the electricity to any desired
part of his body for which purpose he has simply to touch the part of his body with
the plate g. According to the position of the clamp e so is the strength of the current

page_text: regulated. is a brass or other metallic plate whose distance from a fixed plate k is
adjustable; the plate i is connected by a binding screw and wire m with earth and
sorvos as a safety plate to conduct the electricity to earth in the event of its being
too strong.
The form of the regulator is not important; the piece a may for example be curved
and the pieces b, b bo secured to it in a corresponding curved line; or the piece a may
be circular in section instead of flat and the pieces b, b be secured around it, but the
form shown in the figures is what I prefer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
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A regulator for high tension electric currents constructed substantially as herein-
before described.