Nikola Tesla Patents
340 per Incent C Sub Spes. for effecting synchronous moversnt being well known, and it being the chief object of my present application to set method of utilizing or applining a forth a novel principle, a detailed description of such 1 devices is not considered necessary The above requiremants being fulfilled, electrical charges of the same sign will be can veyed to each of the condenser terminals as the cylinder A is rotated, and with each Iresh impulse the condanser will be charged to a higher potential. The speed of rotation of the cylinder d being adjustable at will, the energy of any number of separate impulses may thus be accumulated in potential fom and discharged through the receiver R upon the brush k coming in contact with one of the segments 1. It will be, of course, understood that the capacity of the condenser should be such as to allow the storing of a much greater amount of energy than is required for the ordinary operation of the receiver. Sincs. by this method a relatively great amount of energy, and in a suitable form, may be made available for the operation of a receiver, the latter need not be very sensitive, but, of course, when the impulses are very feeble, as when coning from a great distance, or when it is desired to operate a receiver very rapidly, then any of the well-known devices, capable of responding to very feeble influences, may be used in this connoction. If, instead of the alternating impulses, short impulses of the same direction are convoyed to the plates P and P, the apparatus described may still readily be used, and for this purpose it is merely necessary to shift the brushes band b'into the position indicated by the dotted -21
