Shunt reactors

Claim 1

AN AIR CORE SHUNT REACTOR COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF CONCENTRIC, RADIALLY SPACED COILS OF EQUAL LENGTH ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED IN PARALLEL AND CONFINED BETWEEN A PAIR OF AXIALLY SPACED, INTERCONNECTED, OPPOSED END MEMBERS, SUCH COILS EACH COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL ANNULAR ELEMENTS DISPOSED IN AXIAL SPACED RELATIONSHIP AND ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED IN SERIES, TERMINAL MEANS DISPOSED OF THE AXIS OF SAID COILS AT EACH END OF THE LATTER FOR ELECTRICALLY CONNECTING THE PARALLEL COILS OF SAID REACTOR IN SERIES IN AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT, SAID TERMINAL MEANS BEING SECURED ONE TO EACH OF SAID END MEMBERS, A CASING ENCLOSING SAID REACTOR, AN INSULATING PEDESTAL DISPOSED BETWEEN THE LOWER END OF SAID COIL AND THE CASING THEREBY TO SUPPORT SAID COILS IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP WITH RESPECT TO SAID CASING, AND A PAIR OF METALLIC ANNULAR MEMBERS CIRCUMSCRIBING THE OUTERMOST COIL IN RADIALLY SPACED RELATIONSHIP WITH RESPECT THERETO, SAID ANNULAR MEMBERS BEING DISPOSED RESPECTIVELY ADJACENT OPPOSED ENDS OF THE COILS.