Railway car identification system

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING, DETECTING AND RECORDING INTELLIGENCE BETWEEN RAILWAY CARS AND FIXED STATION AS SAID CARS MOVE PAST A PICKUP DEVICE AT ANY NORMAL OPERATING SPEED COMPRISING: A PANEL FORMING A PORTION OF EACH CAR; CODE MARKINGS DISTINCTIVE OF CERTAIN INTELLIGENCE EACH OF SAID PANEL, SAID CODE MARKINGS COMPRISING PHOTO DIFFERING ELEMENTS POSITIOND ON SAID PANEL IN SUCCESSIVE GROUPS FOR GROUP-BY-GROUP DETECTION; A FRAMING SET OF CODE MARKING ASSOCIATED WITH EACH GROUP OF INTELLIGENCE CODE MARKING AND POSITIONED ON THE PANEL IN A FIXED POSITION RELATIVE TO THE POSITION OF ITS ASSOCIATED INTELLIGENCE CODE MARKING GROUP; SAID PICKUP DEVICES INCLUDING A FIRST GROUP OF PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICES FOR DETECTING SAID ONE GROUP OF INTELLIGENCE CODE MARKINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY, A SECOND GROUP OF PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICES FOR DETECTING SAID FRAMING SETS OF CODE MARKINGS; MEANS FOR FOCUSING EACH OF SAID SETS OF MARKING UPON THE RESPECTIVE GROUPS OF PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICES SIMULTANEOUSLY WHEN A CAR IS APPROPRIATELY POSITIONED WITH RESPECT TO SAID PICKUP DEVICE, A TEMPORARY STORAGE DEVICE FOR RECORDING INTELLIGENCE IN CODED FORM; CIRCUIT MEANS CONNECTED WITH SAID FIRST GROUP OF PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICES FOR SUPPLYING INFORMATION TO SAID TEMPORARY STORAGE DEVICE WHEN TRIGGERED, CIRCUIT MEANS ACTUATED BY SAID SECOND GROUP OF PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICES TO TRIGGER THE FIRST SAID CIRCUIT WHEN SAID SECOND GROUP OF PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICES DETECTS A SET OF FRAME CODE MARKINGS, A THIRD SET OF CODE ELEMENTS ON SAID PANEL, GITUDINALLY SPACED DIFFERING CODE ELEMENTS ON SAID PANEL, SUCH THAT THE ORDER OF PRESENTATION OF SAID DIFFERING ELEMENTS AS A CAR MOVES PAST A STATIONARY PICKUP DEVICE INFORMS AS TO THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF SAID CAR AND HENCE AS TO THE NATURAL OR REVERSE ORDER OF PRESENTATION OF SAID INTELLIGENCE GROUPS, MEANS SENSITIVE TO SAID THIRD SET OF MARKINGS, A SECOND INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEM, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE LAST SAID SENSITIVE MEANS TO CONVEY INFORMATION FROM SAID TEMPORARY STORAGE DEVICE TO SAID SECOND STORAGE SYSTEM IN THE ORDER RECEIVED BY SAID TEMPORARY STORAGE DEVICE OR IN THE REVERSE ORDER DEPENDING UPON THE ORDER OF PRESENTATION OF THE CODE ELEMENTS IN SAID THIRD SET OF MARKING TO SAID PICKUP DEVICE.