Safety circuit for sequence start ballast with disconnect switches in the primary and secondary windings

Claim 1

IN A SEQUENCE START BALLAST HAVING A CORE STRUCTURE, A PRIMARY WINDING, A SECONDARY WINDING, AND A STARTING WINDING MOUNTED IN END TO END RELATIONSHIP ON SAID CORE STRUCTURE, AND HAVING A SERIES OPERATING CIRCUIT WHICH INCLUDED SAID PRIMARY AND SAID SECONDARY WINDING, A CONDENSER, AND SOCKET MEANS FOR MAKING CONNECTION WITH THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF A #1 LAMP AND #2 LAMP, SAID STARTING WINDING BEING CONNECTED ACROSS SAID #1 LAMP AND SAID CONDENSER, THE COMBINATION OF A PRIMARY DISCONNECT FOR ONE END OF SAID #2 LAMP, A TWO-CONTACT DISCONNECT SOCKET FOR ONE END OF SAID #1 LAMP, FIRST LEAD MEANS CONNECTING ONE CONTACT OF SAID DISCONNECT SOCKET WITH SAID PRIMARY WINDING, AND SECOND LEAD MEANS CONNECTING THE OTHER CONTACT OF SAID DISCONNECT SOCKET WITH ONE END OF SAID STARTING WINDING, THE OTHER END OF SAID STARTING WINDING BEING CONNECTED TO SAID OPERATING CIRCUIT, WHERBY THE DISPLACEMENT OF SAID #1 LAMP AWAY FROM SAID DISCONNECT SOCKET INCIDENT TO REMOVAL BREAKS SAID OPERATING CIRCUIT AND RENDERS SAID LAMPS NONCONDUCTIVE WITH RESPECT TO THE POTENTIAL OF SAID OPERATING CIRCUIT WHEREBY NO POTENTIAL WILL EXIST BEWEEN THE DIS PLACED END OF SAID #1 LAMP AND GROUND, AND WHEREBY SAID DISPLACEMENT BREAKS THE CONNECTION THROUGH SAID DIS CONNECT SOCKET BETWEEN SAID FIRST MENTIONED END OF SAID STARTING WINDING AND SAID PRIMARY WINDING TO ISOLATE SAID FIRST MENTIONED END OF SAID STARTING WINDING WHEREBY NO STARTING POTENTIAL WILL IXIST AT SAID SECOND MENTIONED END OF STARTING WINDING WITH RESPECT TO GROUND