Telemetering system

Claim 1

IN A SYSTEM FOR REGISTERING AT A REMOTE LOCATION TRAFFIC CONDITIONS EXISTING AT A DESIGNATED POINT ALONG THE HIGHWAY, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING, VEHICLE DETECTOR MEANS INCLUDING MEANS BEING OPERATED FROM ITS NORMAL CONDITION IN RESPONSE TO EACH VEHICLE PASSING SAID DESIGNATED POINT, ENCODER MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID DETECTOR MEANS AND SUPPLYING AN OUTPUT SIGNAL OVER A COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT TO DECODER MEANS AT SAID REMOTE LOCATION, SAID ENCODER MEANS SCANNING EACH SAID DETECTOR MEANS REPETITIVELY AND TRANSMITTING A DISTINCTIVE SIGNAL TO SAID DECODER MEANS AT A PREDETERMINED TIME IN EACH SCANNING CYCLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHETHER THE DETECTOR MEANS BEING SCANNED IS IN ITS NORMAL CONDITION OR IN ITS VEHICLE DETECTING CONDITION, CIRCUIT MEANS AT SAID REMOTE LOCATION CONNECTED TO THE OUTPUT OF SAID DECODER MEANS AND BEING OPERATED FROM ITS NORMAL CONDITION TO A DISTINCTIVE CONDITION ONLY WHEN SAID DISTINCTIVE SIGNAL IS RECEIVED BY SAID DECODER AT SAID PREDETERMINED TIME IN A CYCLE AND ON AT LEAST A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF SUCCESSIVE CYCLES, AND COUNTING MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID CIRCUIT MEANS FOR REGISTERING AN ADDITIONAL COUNT FOR EACH TIME SAID CIRCUIT MEANS IS OPERATED FROM ITS NORMAL CONDITION.