Magnetic tape to perforated tape digital information converter

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING A MAGNETIC RECORD MADE UP OF BLOCKS OF CHARACTERS HAVING RECORDED PULSES IN VARIOUS RESPECTIVE CHANNELS IN WHICH EACH BLOCK HAS A PARITY CHANNEL WHEREBY THE NUMBER OF PULSES IN EACH CHARACTER IS A NUMBER HAVING A GIVEN CHARACTERISTIC AND IN WHICH EACH BLOCK HAS A PARITY CHARACTER WHEREBY THE NUMBER OF PULSES IN EACH CHANNEL IS A NUMBER HAVING A CERTAIN CHARACTERISTIC TO A PERFORATED RECORD INCLUDING IN COMBINATION MEANS FOR READING SAID MAGNETIC RECORD TO PRODUCE RESPECTIVE GROUPS OF PULSES REPRESENTING SAID CHARACTERS, A STORAGE REGISTER FOR STORING SAID GROUPS OF PULSES AND SHIFTED IN RESPONSE TO A SHIFT PULSE OF SHIFT SAID CHARACTERS SERIALLY OUT OF SAID REGISTER, MEANS COUPLING SAID READING MEANS TO SAID STORAGE REGISTER, PUNCHING MECHANISM TO PUNCH PREDETERMINED CHARACTERS AND SAID MECHANISM TO PUNCH PREDETERMINED CHARACTERS AND COMPRISING MEANS FOR PRODUCING A SYNCHRONIZING PULSE ON EACH OPERATION OF THE PUNCHING MECHANISM, MEANS FOR COUPLING SAID SYNCHRONIZING PULSES TO SAID REGISTER AS SHIFT PULSES TO SHIFT THE STORED CHARACTERS OUT THE REGISTER, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A CERTAIN PULSE IN THE FIRST CHARACTER OF A RECORD BLOCK FOR ENABLING SAID SYNCHRONIZING PULSE COUPLING MEANS, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE GROUPS OF PULSES SHIFTING OUT OF SAID REGISTER FOR ENERGIZING SAID PUNCHING MECHANISM CONDITIONING MEANS, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A PULSE AT THE END OF A RECORD BLOCK FOR DISABLING SAID COUPLING MEANS AND FOR ENABLING SAID READING MEANS, FIRST MEANS FOR COUNTING THE NUMBER OF PULSES IN EACH CHARACTER, SECOND MEANS FOR COUNTING THE NUMBER OF PULSES IN EACH CHANNEL AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND COUNTING MEANS FOR DISABLING SAID MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A PULSE AT THE END OF A RECORD WHEN THE NUMBER OF PULSES IN ANY CHARACTER IS A NUMBER WHICH DIFFERS FROM A NUMBER HAVING SAID GIVEN CHARACTERISTIC AND WHEN THE NUMBER OF PULSES IN ANY CHANNEL IS A NUMBER WHICH DIFFERS FROM A NUMBER HAVING SAID CERTAIN CHARACTERISTIC.