Accumulator readout device

Claim 1

IN AN ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSFERRING A NUMERICAL VALUE ACCUMULATED IN AN ELECTRONIC ACCUMULATOR INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE COUNTING STAGE CAPABLE OF STORING SUCH NUMERICAL VALUE, TO A MECHANICAL COUNTING, INDICATING OR PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING AT LEAST ONE SET OF INCREMENTALLY MOVABLE DIGIT-DETERMINING PRIMARY CONTROL ELEMENTS AND DIGITEXHIBITING SECONDARY ELEMENTS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER AND CAPABLE OF ASSUMING TWO STATES OF MOTION, ONE OF WHICH IS STANDSTILL, THE OTHER ONE BEING MOVEMENT, SAID ELEMENTS BEING CAPABLE OF SEQUENTIALLY ASSUMING CONSECUTIVE POSITIONS RESPECTIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH A SERIES OF DIGITS FORMING PART OF A NUMERICAL VALUE TO BE INDICATED OR PRINTED, IN COMBINATION, DRIVE MEANS FOR ADVANCING SAID PRIMARY CONTROL ELEMENTS INCREMENTALLY THROUGH SAID CONSECUTIVE POSITION; AN IMPULSE GENERATOR MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH SAID DRIVE MEANS AND CAPABLE OF GENERATING IMPULSES SEQUENCES OF PREDETERMINED NUMBERS OF ELECTRIC IMPULSES SYNCHRONOUSLY WITH THE PASSING OF SAID PRIMARY CONTROL ELEMENTS THROUGH A CORRESPONDING NUMBER OF SAID CONSECUTIVE POSITIONS, RESPECTIVELY; FIRST CIRCUIT MEANS CONNECTING SAID IMPULSE GENERATOR MEANS WITH SAID COUNTING STAGE FOR INJECTING SAID PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF SAID ELECTRIC IMPULSES AS COUNTING IMPULSES INTO THE LATTER SO AS TO SHIFT REVOLVINGLY A NUMERICAL VALUE STORED IN SAID COUNTING STAGE THROUGH THE LATTER; ELECTROMAGNETIC MEANS FOR CAUSING SAID SECONDARY ELEMENTS TO UNDERGO A CHANGE FROM ONE OF SAID STATES OF MOTION TO THE OTHER ONE, SAID ELECTROMAGNETIC MEANS BEING RESPONSIVE TO A CONTROL IMPULSE APPLIED THERETO AND BEING CAPABLE OF EFFECTING SAID CHANGE IN ANY ONE OF SAID POSITIONS OF SAID PRIMARY CONTROL ELEMENTS UPON APPLICATION OF SUCH A CONTROL IMPULSE; AND SECOND CIRCUIT MEANS CONNECTING SAID COUNTING STAGE WITH SAID ELETROMAGNETIC MEANS AND CAPABLE OF TRANSMITTING THERETO SAID CONTROL IMPULSE EVERY TIME WHEN COINCIDENTLY WITH INJECTING THE LAST ONE OF SAID PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF ELECTRIC IMPULSES IN ONE OF SAID SEQUENCES INTO SAID COUNTING STAGE THE COUNTING CAPACITY THEREOF IS EXHAUSTED.