Maximum-demand measuring device with plural sequentially operated pusher members

Claim 1

IN A MEASURING DEVICE, A MEASURING UNIT FOR MEASURING A VARIABLE QUANTITY, AN INDICATING MEMBER FOR INDICATING A FUNCTION OF SAID VARIABLE QUANTITY, MEANS FOR COUPLING THE INDICATING MEMBER FOR OPERATION BY THE MEASURING UNIT ALTERNATELY AND SEQUENTIALLY THROUGH FIRST AND SECOND PATHS, EACH OF SAID PATHS HAVING A COUPLING CONDITION DURING WHICH IT CAN COUPLE THE INDICATING MEMBER TO THE MEASURING UNIT AND A DECOUPLING CONDITION DURING WHICH THE PATH IS DECOUPLED FROM THE MEASURING UNIT AND TIMING MEANS HAVING A FIRST OPERATION FOR RESPECTIVELY PLACING THE FIRST PATH IN THE COUPLING CONDITION AND THE SECOND PATH IN THE DECOUPLING CONDITION SUBSTANTIALLY SIMULTANEOUSLY, SAID TIMING MEANS HAVING A SECOND OPERATION FOR RESPECTIVELY PLACING THE FIRST PATH IN THE DECOUPLING CONDITION AND THE SECOND PATH IN THE COUPLING CONDITION SUBSTANTIALLY SIMULTANEOUSLY, SAID TIMING MEANS BEING EFFECTIVE FOR ALTERNATELY PERFORMING SAID FIRST AND SECOND OPERATIONS; SAID COUPLING MEANS INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND ELEMENTS RESPECTIVELY FOR SAID FIRST AND SECOND PATHS, EACH OF SAID ELEMENTS WHEN THE ASSOCIATED PATH IS IN EFFECTIVE COUPLING CONDITION BEING OPERABLE BY THE MEASURING UNIT FROM A FIRST CONDITION TO A SECOND CONDITION, EACH OF SAID ELEMENTS WHEN THE ASSOCIATED PATH IS IN DECOUPLING CONDITION BEING RESETTABLE FROM THE SECOND CONDITION TO THE FIRST CONDITION, AND RESETTING MEANS COOPERATING WITH THE TIMING MEANS FOR RESETTING TO THE FIRST CONDITION EACH OF THE ELEMENTS DURING A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF EACH PERIOD IN WHICH THE ASSOCIATED PATH IS IN THE DECOUPLING CONDITION.