Multi-unit variable transformer device

Claim 1

A COMPACT, ADJUSTABLE VOLTAGE-DIVIDING DEVICE INCLUDING A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL CASING ADAPTED FOR PANEL MOUNTING BY BODILY INSERTION THROUGH A CIRCULAR PANEL APERTURE, IMPEDANCE MEANS IN SAID CASING DEFINING A MULTIPLICITY OF IMPEDANCE SECTIONS PROVIDED WITH TERMINALS CONNECTED THERETO TO DEFINE A PLURALITY OF DECADES OF IMPEDANCE VALUE, A ROTARY SELECTING SWITCH PROVIDING DECIMAL IMPEDANCE-SELECTIVE CONTACT POSITIONS FOR EACH OF SAID SECTIONS, SAID SWITCHES BEING CLUSTERED LATERALLY ABOUT A CENTRAL LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID CASING, AND EACH SWITCH INCLUDING DETENT MEANS DEFINING AT LEAST TEN INDIVIDUAL CONTACT POSITIONS CORRESPONDING TO THE RESPECTIVE DECADES OF THE SELECTED IMPEDANCE VALUE IN CIRCUIT: A STEPPED-DIAMETER PLURALITY OF CONCENTRIC OPERATING KNOBS MOUNTED ON SAID CENTRAL AXIS AT ONE END OF THE CASING AND ALL PROVIDED WITH NUMERICAL INDICIA CORRESPONDING TO THE DECADE SWITCH POSITIONS OF SAID RESPECTIVE SWITCHES, AND COAXIAL SHAFT MEANS CENTERED ON SAID CASING AXIS AND INDIVIDUALLY CONNECTING ONE EACH OF SAID SWITCHES TO A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID KNOBS; WHEREBY THE SETTINGS OF SAID SWITCHES CAN BE READ OFF THE KNOB INDICIA AS A CONNECTED MULTI-DIGIT NUMERAL.