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Claim 1

AN ARRANGEMENT FOR CONTROLLING A PLURALITY OF ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN COLUMNS AND ROWS, TO OPERATE ON A MEMBER MOVED PAST SUCH ELEMENTS IN THE DIRECTION OF SUCH COLUMNS, ALL THE ELEMENTS IN EACH ROW PERFORMING THE SAME FUNCTION, AND THE ELEMENTS IN DIFFERENT ROWS PERFORMING DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS, IN RESPONSE TO SIGNALS DIFFERING FOR EACH OF SUCH FUNCTIONS AND BEING PRODUCED IN SETS EACH SIGNAL OF WHICH CORRESPONDS TO A DIFFERENT COLUMN, THERE BEING AT LEAST AS MANY ROWS AS THERE ARE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS, COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF STORING DEVICES ONE CONNECTED TO EACH OF THE ELEMENTS, THE STORING DEVICES FOR EACH ROW STORING SIGNALS FOR DIFFERENT PERIODS OF TIME WHICH VARY WITH THE DISTANCE THROUGH WHICH THE MEMBER MOVES FROM A PREDETERMINED POINT IN ORDER TO COME OPPOSITE THE ELEMENTS IN THE VARIOUS ROWS, MEANS CONTROLLED BY RELEASE OF A SIGNAL FROM A STORING DEVICE TO ACTUATE THE ELEMENT TO WHICH IT IS CONNECTED, A DECODER HAVING OUTLETS EACH CORRESPONDING TO ONE OF SAID FUNCTIONS AND COMPRISING MEANS TO DETERMINE THE FUNCTION OF A SIGNAL SUPPLIED THERETO AND TO SUPPLY A CONTROL SIGNAL TO THE PROPER OUTLET, MEANS FOR CONNECTING EACH OUTLET OF THE DECODER TO ALL THE STORING DEVICES OF THE CORRESPONDING ROW, AND MEANS CONTROLLED IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE SUCCESSIVE SIGNALS OF EACH SET FOR SUCCESSIVELY RENDERING THE CONNECTING MEANS OPERATIVE SO AS TO SUPPLY EACH CONTROL SIGNAL TO THE STORING DEVICE OF THE PROPER COLUMN AND ROW.