diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/__init__.py b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/__init__.py
index 2e5f782..e47b24c 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Class base Transformers
-from .base import ConfigurableTransformer
+from .base import Transformer
 from .convertfigures import ConvertFiguresTransformer
 from .svg2pdf import SVG2PDFTransformer
 from .extractfigure import ExtractFigureTransformer
diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/base.py b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/base.py
index 1fff970..825808e 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/base.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/base.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from IPython.utils.traitlets import Bool
 # Classes and Functions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-class ConfigurableTransformer(NbConvertBase):
+class Transformer(NbConvertBase):
     """ A configurable transformer
 
     Inherit from this class if you wish to have configurability for your
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class ConfigurableTransformer(NbConvertBase):
             Additional arguments
         """
         
-        super(ConfigurableTransformer, self).__init__(**kw)
+        super(Transformer, self).__init__(**kw)
 
        
     def __call__(self, nb, resources):
diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/convertfigures.py b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/convertfigures.py
index 7587391..354f456 100644
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/convertfigures.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/convertfigures.py
@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@ one format to another.
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-from .base import ConfigurableTransformer
+from .base import Transformer
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-class ConvertFiguresTransformer(ConfigurableTransformer):
+class ConvertFiguresTransformer(Transformer):
     """
     Converts all of the outputs in a notebook from one format to another.
     """
diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/csshtmlheader.py b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/csshtmlheader.py
index 5c65559..25dc511 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/csshtmlheader.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/csshtmlheader.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
 
 from IPython.utils import path
 
-from .base import ConfigurableTransformer
+from .base import Transformer
 
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode
 # Classes and functions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-class CSSHTMLHeaderTransformer(ConfigurableTransformer):
+class CSSHTMLHeaderTransformer(Transformer):
     """
     Transformer used to pre-process notebook for HTML output.  Adds IPython notebook
     front-end CSS and Pygments CSS to HTML output.
diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/extractfigure.py b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/extractfigure.py
index 4ff94b9..1c28104 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/extractfigure.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/extractfigure.py
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ notebook file.  The extracted figures are returned in the 'resources' dictionary
 
 import sys
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode
-from .base import ConfigurableTransformer
+from .base import Transformer
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-class ExtractFigureTransformer(ConfigurableTransformer):
+class ExtractFigureTransformer(Transformer):
     """
     Extracts all of the figures from the notebook file.  The extracted 
     figures are returned in the 'resources' dictionary.
diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/latex.py b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/latex.py
index 22cc203..be1f5ac 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/latex.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/latex.py
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@ from __future__ import print_function, absolute_import
 
 # Our own imports
 # Needed to override transformer
-from .base import (ConfigurableTransformer)
+from .base import (Transformer)
 from IPython.nbconvert import filters
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-class LatexTransformer(ConfigurableTransformer):
+class LatexTransformer(Transformer):
     """
     Converter for latex destined documents.
     """
diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/revealhelp.py b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/revealhelp.py
index 8bdc65c..96d69f1 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/revealhelp.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/revealhelp.py
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-from .base import ConfigurableTransformer
+from .base import Transformer
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes and functions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-class RevealHelpTransformer(ConfigurableTransformer):
+class RevealHelpTransformer(Transformer):
 
     url_prefix = Unicode('//cdn.jsdelivr.net/reveal.js/2.4.0',
                          config=True,
diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/sphinx.py b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/sphinx.py
index 935ec12..8c4fa7c 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/sphinx.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/sphinx.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ from pygments.formatters import LatexFormatter
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode, Bool
 
 # Needed to override transformer
-from .base import (ConfigurableTransformer)
+from .base import (Transformer)
 
 from IPython.nbconvert.utils import console  
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ from IPython.nbconvert.utils import console
 # Classes and functions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-class SphinxTransformer(ConfigurableTransformer):
+class SphinxTransformer(Transformer):
     """
     Sphinx utility transformer.