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Claim 1

A DISTRIBUTOR-TIMER ASSEMBLY COMPRISING, A HOUSING FORMED WITH A CHAMBER AND A PAIR OF FLUID PORTS FOR CONDUCTING FLUID TO SAID CHAMBER, SAID CHAMBER HAVING A MOUTH, A CYLINDRICALLY-SHAPED ROTOR ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN SAID CHAMBER AND HAVING A PERIPHERAL GROOVE OPEN TO ONE OF SAID PORTS AND HAVING AN AXIALLY EXTENDING PASSAGE OPEN TO THE GROOVE, A DISK-LIKE TIMER HEAD MOUNTED ON THE HOUSING AND COVERING THE MOUTH OF SAID CHAMBER, THE ROTOR BEING OF AN AXIAL LENGTH SHORTER THAN SAID CHAMBER WHEREBY FLUID ENTERING SAID SECOND PORT URGES THE ROTOR IN CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH THE TIMER HEAD, MEANS FOR HOLDING THE TIMER HEAD FIRM AGAINST THE HOUSING BUT PROVIDING FOR THE SAME TO BE ANGULARLY ADJUSTABLE, A PLURALITY OF CHANNELS IN SAID TIMER HEAD, EACH ADAPTED TO REGISTER WITH THE PASSAGE IN SAID ROTOR AS THE SAME IS ROTATED; FOR EACH CHANNEL, A CONTROL PISTON MOVABLE BACK AND FORTH THEREIN, FLUID ACTUATED MEANS FOR YIELDABLY BIASING EACH PISTON TOWARD SAID ROTOR, AND EACH PISTON BEING ADAPTED TO BE MOVED AWAY FROM THE ROTOR WHEN FLUID IN SAID GROOVE IS TRANSFERRED TO THE PISTON BY THE REGISTRY OF SAID CHANNELS AND SAID PASSAGE, A CONTROL MECHANISM INCLUDING, FOR EACH PISTON, A VALVE CONNECTED THERETO AND ARRANGED TO CONTROL FLUID FLOW, AND MEANS FOR RELEASING THE FLUID IN SAID GROOVE AND IN EACH OF SAID CHANNELS AS THE LATTER REGISTER WITH THE PASSAGE IN SAID ROTOR SO THAT SAID FLUID ACTUATED MEANS IS EFFECTIVE TO RETURN EACH OF SAID PISTONS TOWARD SAID ROTOR.