Heating system control with anticipating means

Claim 1

A CONTROL SYSTEM COMPRISING A POWER SOURCE; REGULATING MEANS FOR CONTROLLY THE SUPPLY OF ENERGY TO A SPACE TO MAINTAIN SAID SPACE AT A PREDETERMINED CONDITION; FIRST POWER MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID REGULATING MEANS TO A POSITION TO SUPPLY A MINIMUM AMOUNT OF ENERGY TO SAID SPACE; SECOND POWER MEANS ARRANGED TO ALSO ACTUATE SAID REGULATING MEANS BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF ADDITIONAL OPERATING POSITIONS INCLUDING SAID MINIMUM SUPPLY POSITION, AN INTERMEDIATE POSITION AND A FULL ON POSITION; CONDITION RESPONSIVE MEANS FOR SENSING THE CONDITION OF SAID SPACE AND MOVABLE BETWEEN "SATISFIED" AND "UNSATISFIED" POSITIONS; THIRD POWER MEANS FOR ARTIFICIALLY AFFECTING SAID SENSING MEANS TO CAUSE IT TO MOVE TOWARDS ITS SATISFIED POSITION WHEN SAID THIRD POWER MEANS IS ENERGIZED; ALL THREE OF SAID POWER MEANS BEING ARRANGED TO BE FIRST ENERGIZED WHEN SAID SENSING MEANS MOVES TO ITS UNSATISFIED POSITION; CONTROL MEANS OPERABLE BY SAID SECOND POWER MEANS WHEN SAID REGULATING MEANS REACHES SAID INTERMEDIATE POSITION TO FIRST DIRECTLY CONNECT SAID FIRST POWER MEANS WITH SAID POWER SOURCE AND THEN DISCONNECT SAID FIRST POWER MEANS FROM SAID CONDITION RESPONSIVE MEANS, TO THEREBY REDUCE THE POWER FLOWING THROUGH SAID THIRD POWER MEANS AND THUS REDUCE THE EFFECT IT HAS ON SAID CONDITION RESPONSIVE MEANS.