Code translating apparatus

Claim 1

IN APPARATUS FOR HANDLING INFORMATION IN CODE, THE COMBINATION OF A PLURALITY OF SIGNAL CONDUCTORS SELECTIVE ENERGIZED BY CODE SIGNALS, A POTENTAL SOURCE HAVING A VOLTAGE BIAS RELTIVE TO SAID CONDUCTORS, A FIRST IMPEDANCE CONNECTED IN SERIES WITH SAID POTENTAIL SOURCE, A PLURALITY OF SECOND IMPEDANCES CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID FIRST IMPEDANCE AND SAID RESPECTIVE CONDUCTORS, MEANS FOR COMPLETING CIRCUITS FROM SAID VOLTAGE SOURCE THROUGH SAID CONDUCTORS SELECTIVELY WHEREBY THE VOLTAGE DROP ACROSS SAID FIST IMPEDANCE IS A FUNCTION OF THE NUMBER OF CONDUCTORS THROUGH WHICH CIRCUITS FROM SAID VOLTAGE SOURCE ARE ESTABLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY, A TRIGGER CIRCUIT INCLUDING SAID FIRST IMPEDANCE AND BEING CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID POTENTIAL SOURCE AND ALL O SAID CONDUCTORS TO CONDUIT THEROUGH A PREDETERMINED PATH ONLY WHEN A CIRCUIT IS ESTABLISHED THROUGH AT LEAST ONE OF SAID CONDUCTORS, SAID TRIGER CIRCUIT INCLUDING CIRCUIT MEANS CONTROLLING BY THE VOLTAGE DROP ACROSS SAID FIRST IMPEDANCE TO EFFECTIVELY STOP CONUCTANCE THROUGH SAID PATH WHEN THE VOLTAGE DROP ACROSS SAID FIRST IMPEDANCE EXCESS A PREDETERMINED VALUE IN RESPONSE TO COMPLETION OF CIRCUITS THROUGH A PREDETERMINED PLURALITY OF SAID CONDUCTORS, AND A SAFETY CIRCUIT RESPONSIVE TO THE CURRENT FLOW IN SAID PATH.