Impregnated film capacitors

Claim 2

A capacitor in accordance with claim 1 wherein the edges of said strips of said second dielectric separator in at least one end portion of the capacitor section and at one face of a given strip of foil are staggered in mirror-image symmetry in relation to the edges of said strips of said first dielectric separator at the opposite face of said given strip of foil.

Claim 3

A capacitor in accordance with claim 1 wherein said strips of film and paper are of substantially equal widths and wherein, in each end portion of the capacitor section, the edges of said strips of said second dielectric separator are staggered in mirror-image symmetry to corresponding edges of said strips of said first dielectric separator.

Claim 4

A capacitor in accordance with claim 1 wherein each of said strips of foil has one edge extending beyond the dielectric separators in a respective end portion of said capacitor section and wherein each of said strips of foil has its other edge recessed relative to said dielectric separators at the other end, respectively, of said capacitor section, the extending edge of a given strip of foil being farther from the edge of the strip of film next to the given strip of foil that it is from the edge of the strip of film spaced from the given strip of foil.

Claim 5

A capacitor in accordance with claim 1 wherein said strips of foil have their edges aligned with each other and are recessed relative to all of the edges of said dielectric spacers, the edges of the strips comprising said dielectric separators being staggered progressively in mirror-image symmetry at opposite sides of each of said strips of foil.

Claim 6

A capacitor in accordance with claim 6 wherein said strips of film and paper are of substantially equal widths.

Claim 7

A capacitor in accordance with claim 6 wherein the strips of film adjacent to the opposite surfaces of one of said strips of foil are recessed more than the edges of the strips of paper in the dielectric separators at opposite sides of said one of said strips of foil and the edges of the last-mentioned strips of paper are recessed more than the edges of other strips of film at opposite surfaces of said one strip of foil, further including a spacing strip of paper aligned edgewise with said edge of said one strip of foil, said spacing strip of paper extending at least as far from the center of the capacitor section as the edges of said other strips of film.

Claim 8

A capacitor in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one edge of each of said strips of foil is recessed relative to the dielectric separators at the opposite sides thereof so that strips of film at opposite sides of said edge of said foil confront each other beyond the recessed foil edge, and a spacing strip of paper aligned edgewise with said recessed foil edge, said spacing strip of paper extending from said foil edge at least as far as the farthest-extending film strips of said dielectric separators.