UNITED STATES PaTenT Office. NIKOLA TESLA, OF SMILJAN LIKA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, ASSIGNOR TO THE TESLA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY. REGULATOR FOR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,962, dated March 2, 1886. Application Oled Juve 4, 1685, “Serial No, 167,376. (No moved) Zo all whom it may concern: Beit known that I, Nrkora Testa, of Smil- jon Lika, border country of Austria-Hungary, have iavented au, Improvement in Dynamo- 5 Electric Machines, of which the following isa specification. ‘My invention is desigued to provide an im- proved method for regulating the current in dynaimo-electrie machines, In another application, No. 165,793, filed by me May 18, 1885, I have shown a method for regulating the current in a dynamo having tbe field-helices in a shunt. My present ap- Plication relates to a dynamo having its field- 15 helices connected in the main circuit. In my improvement I employ one or more auxiliary brashes, by means of which I shunt & portion or the whole of the field-helices. According to the relative position upon the 20 commutator of the respective brnshes more or Jess current is cansed to pass through the ices of the field, und the current developed by the machine can be varied at will by vary- ing the relative positions of the brushes. 25 In the drawings the present invention is iMlustrated by diagrams, whieh are hereinafter separately referred to. In Figure 1, « and bare the positive and negative brnshes of the main eirenit, and ¢ go an auxiliary brush. The main cirenit D ex- tends from the brushes « and 3, as usual, and contains the helices M of the feld-wire and the electric lamps or other working devices. The auxiliary brush cis connected to the point 35 # of the main circuit by meaus of the wire c’, H is acommutator of ordinary construction. From that which bas beea said in the ap- plication above referred to it will be seen that when the electro-motive force between the 40 brushes a and ¢ is to the electro-motive force between the brushes ¢ and J as the resistance of the circuit a Me’ c A to the resistance of the cirenit } C Bee’ D, the potentials of the points # and y will be equal, and no current 45 Will pass over the auxiliary bresh o; but it said brash occupies a different position rela- tively to the main brushes the electric condi- tion is disturbed, and current will flow either from y to z or from z to y, according to the $0 relative position of the brushes. In the first 10 case the current through the field-helices will be partly neutralized and the magnetism of the feld-magnets diminished. In the second case the current will be inéreased and the magnets will gain strength. By combining with the brushes a 5 ¢ any automatic regulat ing mechauism the current developed can be regulated antomatically in proportion to the deinands in the working-cireuit. In Figs. 6 and 7 I have represented some of the antomatie means that may be used for moving the brashes, The core P, Fig. 8, of the solenoid-helix S, is connected with the brasb ¢ to move the same, and in Fig. 7 the core P is shown as within the helix S, and connected with both brashes a and ¢, so as to move the same toward or from each other, according to the strength of the current in the helix, the helix -being within an iron'tube, 8’, that becomes magnetized wnd increases the 7 action of the solenoid. In practice it is sufficient to move only the ausillary ros, as shown in Pig: 6, as the regulation is very sensitive to the slightest changes; but the relative position of the aux- iliary brush to the main brushes may be varied by moving the main brashes, or both main and auxiliary brushes may be moved, as illus- trated in Fig. 7 In the latter two’ enses, it will, be understood, the motion of the main brushes relatively to the nentral line of’ the machine causes variations in the strength of the current independently of their relative position to the auxiliary brash, In all cases the adjustment may be such that when the machine is runping with the ordinary load no current flows over the auxiliary brush. ‘The field-helices may be convected as shown in Fig. 1, or a part of the field-helices may be inthe outgoing and the other partin the return circuit, and two auxiliary brushes may be employed as shown iu Figs. 3and4. Instead of shunting the whole of the field-hetices, a portion only of such helices may be shunted, ag shown in Figs. 2 and 4. 95 The arrangement shown in Fig. 4 is advan- tageous, as it diminishes tho sparking upon the commutator, the main cireuit being closed through the auxiliary brashes at the moment of the break of theelreuitat the main brushes, 100 bo 2 80 85 902 336,962 élices may be wound in thesame direction, ora part may be wound in opposite directions. ‘The connection between the helices and the § auxiliary brash or brushes may be made bya ire of amall resistance or a resistance may interposed fig. 5) between the point x and the Poailey brash or brashes to divide the sensitiveness when the brushes are ad- to justed. ~ Tam aware that it is not new to useauxiliary brushes on thecommutator, and thatauzilia brushes have been connected to the field hell- cea; but I am not aware that the helices of a 15 aerlea dynamo have been shunted by means of auxiliary broshes, and that the relative posi- tion of the respective brushes has been varied for the purpose of regulating the current de- ‘veloped by the machine, In instances where auxiliary brushes have 20 besn used in connection with the field-helices said auxiliary brishes received the current continuously and caused great sparking, whereas in my invention the auxiliary bras! receives carrent only when the normat eleo- 25 trical conditions of the circuit are disturbed. T claim as my invention— ‘The combination, with the commutator and main broshes and one or more auxiliary brushes, of the field-helicas in the main cir- 30 cuits aud one or more shunt-connections from the field-helices to the auxiliary brushes, the relative positions upon the commutator of the respective brushes being adjustable, for the purpose set forth, so 35 Bigned by me this 16th day of May, A. D. 1885. NIKOLA TESLA. ‘Witnesses: Geo. T. PINCKNEY, Wattace L. Sergetr.(No Model.) 2 Bheets—Sheet 1. N. TESLA. REGULATOR FOR DYNAMO BLEOTRIO MAOHINES. No, 336,962. Patented Mar. 2, 1886. ae fm Lomesel Wo Sessa rr ag(No Model.) 2 Sheste—Sheet 2. N. TESLA. REGULATOR FOR DYNAMO ELECTRIO MAOHINES. No. 336,962. Patented Mar. 2, 1886.