Current responsive light varying means and light sensitive means responsive to the variations

Claim 1

CURRENT RESPONSIVE APPARATUS FOR A HIGH VOLTAGE ALTERNATING CURRENT CONDUCTOR COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, MEANS AT THE CONDUCTOR FOR OBTAINING A SIGNAL WHICH VARIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH VARIATIONS IN THE CURRENT OF THE CONDUCTOR, MEANS INCLUDING A MOVABLE REFLECTING ELEMENT OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO THE SIGNAL OBTAINING MEANS FOR REFLECTING LIGHT IN A PREDETERMINED DIRECTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POSITION OF THE MOVABLE REFLECTING ELEMENT, A SOURCE OF LIGHT LOCATED AT A POINT REMOTE FROM THE MOVABLE REFLECTING ELEMENT, MEANS INCLUDING OPTICAL FIBER MEANS FORMING A LIGHT PATH FROM THE SOURCE OF LIGHT TO THE MOVABLE REFLECTING ELEMENT, OTHER OPTICAL FIBER MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF OPTICAL FIBERS HAVING THE ADJACENT ENDS THEREOF DISPOSED IN PREDETERMINED ALIGNED POSITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE MOVABLE ELEMENT, THE OPTICAL FIBERS OF THE OTHER OPTICAL FIBER MEANS RECEIVING AMOUNTS OF LIGHT WHICH VARY IN AMPLITUDE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POSITION OF THE MOVABLE REFLECTING ELEMENT AND ACCORDINGLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHANGES IN CURRENT IN THE CONDUCTOR, A PLURALITY OF PHOTOELECTRIC MEANS DISPOSED ADJACENT THE OTHER ENDS RESPECTIVELY OF THE OPTICAL FIBERS OF THE OTHER OPTICAL FIBER MEANS, A SOURCE OF DIRECT CURRENT, A RESISTANCE NETWORK CONNECTING THE DIRECT CURRENT SOURCE TO ALL OF THE PLURALITY OF PHOTOELECTRIC MEANS, AMPLIFIER MEANS HAVING AN INPUT CONNECTED TO THE RESISTANCE NETWROK AND TO ALL OF THE PHOTOELECTRIC MEANS, A VARIATION IN THE LIGHT REACHING ANY OF THE PHOTOELECTRIC MEANS RESULTING IN A VARIATION IN THE AMPLITUDE OF THE SIGNAL INPUT OF THE AMPLIFIER MEANS, AND UTILIZATION MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO THE AMPLIFIER MEANS AND CALIBRATED TO INDICATE CURRENT VALUES OF THE CURRENT IN THE CONDUCTOR.