Data processing apparatus

Claim 1

FOR USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH EQUIPMENT FOR PROCESSING SELECTIVELY PUNCHED MULTI-COLUM CARDS AND INCLUDING SELECTORS CONTROLLING THE ROUTING OF PUNCH IMPULSES AND OPERABLE, WHEN IMPULSED SELECTIVELY, TO TRANSFER TO SELECTIVELY DIRECT SUCH ROUTING; DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTING THE SELECTOR CAPACITY AND FUNCTIONAL FLEXIBILITY OF THE ASSOCIATED TABULATOR, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A SOURCE OF ELECTIRC POWER INDEPENDENT OF THE ASSOCIATED TABULATOR; A POWER SUPPLY COMPONENT CONNECTED TO SAID SOURCE; A PLURALITY OF SELECTORS EACH HAVING A COMMON HUB, A NORMAL HUB, AND A TRANSFER HUB, THE COMMON HUB NORMALLY BEING CONNECTED TO THE NORMAL HUB AND BEING CONNECTED TO THE TRANSFER HUB WHEN THE SELECTOR IS PICKED UP; A REMOVABLE CONTROL PANEL CONTAINING A PRE-SELECTED NUMBER OF HUBS GROUPED IN SECTIONS AND ADPATED FOR SELECTIVE INTERCONNECTION BY EXTERNAL WIRING THROUGH THE HUBS TO PANEL BOARD TERMINALS ALIGNED WITH EACH HUB WHEN THE CONTROL PANEL IS IN POSITION, THE PANEL BOARD TERMINALS BEING INTERNALLY WIRED TO THE COMPONENTS OF THE APPARATUS; ONE OF SAID SECTIONS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF EXIT-ENTRY HUBS EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF CARD COLUMNS, AND ANOTHER SECTION INCLUDING THE COMMON, NORMAL, AND TRANSFER HUBS OF THE SELECTORS; A PLURALITY OF CONVERTORS EACH ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OF SAID SELECTORS AND EACH INCLUDING AN IMPULSE ENTRY HUB AND SWITCH MEANS SELECTIVELY OPERABLE, UPON RECEIPT OF AN IMPULSE OF A PREDETERMINED DURATION AT SUCH ENTRY HUB, TO CLOSE A CIRCUIT FROM SAID POWER SUPPLY COMPONENT SUPPLY TO A SELECTOR IN CIRCUIT WITH AN OUTPUT HUB OF THE CONVERTOR FOR TRANSFER OF SUCH IN-CIRCUIT SELECTOR; THIRD SECTION OF SAID CONTROL PANEL INCLUDING THE CONVERTOR HUBS; A PLURALITY OF DELAY MEANS EACH ASSOCIATED WITH A SELECTOR AND HAVING INPUT AND OUTPUT HUBS AND EACH OPERABLE, WHEN CONNECTED IN CIRCUIT BETWEEN A CONVERTOR AND A SELECTOR, TO DELAY PICK-UP OF THE SELECTOR, UPON RECEIPT OF AN IMPULSE TO THE CONVERTOR DURING ONE CYCLE, UNTIL THE FOLLOWING CYCLE; A FOURTH CONTROL PANEL SECTION INCLUDING THE SELECTOR PICKUP HUBS AND THE DELAY MEANS HUBS; WHEREBY THE DELAY MEANS MAY BE SELECTIVELY EXTERNALLY WIRED IN OR OUT OF CIRCUIT WITH A SELECTOR PICK UP AND A CONVERTOR FOR DELAYED SELECTOR PICK UP IN THE FIRST CASE OR IMMEDIATE SELECTOR PICK-UP IN THE SECOND CASE; A START-INTERLOCK CIRCUIT FOR CONNECTING SAID POWER SUPPLY COMPONENT TO SAID SOURCE AND INCLUDING FIRST NORMALLY OPEN SWITCH MEANS CLOSED RESPONSIVE TO AN IMPULSE FROM THE ASSOCIATED TABULATOR, AND SECOND NORMALLY OPEN SWICH MEANS IN A STARTING RELAY CIRCUIT OF THE ASSOCIATED TABULATOR AND CLOSED RESPONSIVE TO CONNECTION OF SAID POWER SUPPLY COMPONENT TO SAID SOURCE; A PLURALITY OF MULTITRANSFER SELECTORS EACH INCLUDING TEN ROWS OF TRANSFER CONTACTS AT TEN POSITIONS IN EACH ROW, AND A TEN POSITION ROW OF INPUT HUBS, EACH MULTITRANSFER SELECTOR HAVING A PICK-UP HUB ADAPTED FOR EXTERNAL WIRING TO THE OUTPUT HUB OF AN ASSOCIATED CONVERTOR; AND A TWO-COLUMN DIGIT SELECTOR ARRANGED TO CONVERT NUMERICAL INFORMATION FROM TWO CARD COLUMNS INTO A SINGLE INDICATIVE PULSE REPRESENTING THE COMBINATION OF THE NUMERICAL INFORMATION FROM THE TWO COLUMNS; SAID DIGIT SELECTOR INCLUDING A FIRST BANK OF TEN RELAYS EACH HAVING TEN SETS OF TRANSFER CONTACTS ARRANGED IN A ROW, AND ONE HUNDRED OUTPUT HUBS EACH ASSOCIATED WITH A SET OF TRANSFER CONTACTS, THE TRANSFER CONTACTS BEING CONNECTED IN PARALLEL IN COLUMNS OF TEN EACH; AND A SECOND BANK OF RELAYS EACH HAVING TRANSFER CONTACTS FOR CONNECTING A SELECTED ONE OF SAID TRANSFER CONTACTS COLUMNS TO THE POWER SUPPLY; A TWO-LEVEL STEPPING SWITCH INCLUDING A FIRST ARM CONNECTED TO EACH RELAY OF SAID FIRST BANK IN SEQUENCE IN EACH CYCLE AND A SECOND ARM CONNECTED TO EACH RELAY OF SAID SECOND BANK IN SEQUENCE IN EACH CYCLE; MEANS FOR APPLYING AN IMPULSE FROM ONE CARD COLUMN TO SAID FIRST ARM AT A SELECTED TIME; AND MEANS FOR APPLYING AN IMPULSE FROM ANOTHER CARD COLUMN TO SAID SECOND ARM AT A SELECTED TIME; WHEREBY TO CONNECT A SELECTED ONE OF SAID ONE HUNDRED HUBS TO TRANSMIT A COMBINED IMPULSE.