Laminated transformer core

Claim 1

IN A MAGNETIC CORE CONSTRUCTION OF STACKED LAMINAE COMPRISING A PLURLITY OF IDENTICAL LAMINATION OPPOSITELY ARRANGED RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, EACH LAMINATION COMPRISING SPACED PARALLEL END LEGS, EACH END LEG HAVING MITERED ENDS; A ONE-ELEMENT CROSS LEG FOR EACH LAMINATION BEING MITERED AT EACH END THEREOF, EACH CROSS LEG MITERED END MATING WITH A CORRESPONDING MITERED END OF EACH OF SAID END LEGS; A CENTER LEG HAVING ONE SQUARE END ABUTTING THE ONE-ELEMENT CROSS LEG AND THE OTHER END MITERED; AND A TWO-ELEMENT CROSS LEG COMPLETING SAID LAMINATION, ONE OF THE ELEMENT OF SAID TWO-ELEMENT CROSS LEG HAVING BOTH ENDS MITERED TO ABUT CORRESPONDING MITERED ENDS ON ONE OF SAID END LEGS AND SAID CENTER LEG, AND THE OTHER ELEMENT HAVING ONE SQUARE END ABUTTING WITH SAID CENTER LEG AND THE OTHER END MITERED TO ABUT WITH A CORRESPONDING MITERED END OF THE OTHER OF SAID END LEGS, SAID TWO-ELEMENT CROSS LEG BEING OFFSET OUTWARDLY IN THE PLANE OF ITS LAMINATION AWAY FROM SAID ONE-ELEMENT CROSS LEG SO THAT ALL THE MITERED ENDS OF SAID TWO-ELEMENT CROSS LEG ARE OFFSET FROM THE RESPECTIVELY ABUTTING MITERED ENDS OF SAID END LEGS AND SAID CENTER LEG, THE OFFSET MITERED END OF SAID OTHERE ELEMENT OF SAID TWO-ELEMENT CROSS LEG FORMING A NOTCH AT THE INNER EXTREMITY OF THE ABUTTING MITERED LEG OF AN END LEG, ONE OFFSET MITERED END OF SAID ONE-ELEMENT OF SAID TWO-ELEMENT CROSS LEG FORMING A NOTCH AT THE INNER EXTREMITY OF THE ABUTTING MITERED END OF AN END LEG AND THE OTHER OFFSET MITERED END OF SAID ONE-ELEMENT FORMING A NOTCH AT THE INNER EXTREMITY THEREOF ADJACENT SAID CENTER LEG, SAID LAMINATIONS BEING TURNED RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER SO THAT THE MITERED END OF THE CENTER LEG OF ONE LAMINATION AND THE NOTCH FORMED ADJACENT THERETO RESS ON A ONE-ELEMENT CROSS LEG OF THE NEXT ADJACENT LAMINATION.