Synchronized image examining and storage devices

Claim 1

IN A CHARACTER READING MACHINE SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERS ARRANGED IN LINES ON A DOCUMENT WHICH IS CONSTRAINED TO MOVE IN A PTH APPROXIMATELY NORMAL TO THE LINES, AND THE READING MACHINE HAS AN EXAMINATION DEVICE AND RECOGNITION MEANS WHICH PROVIDE THAT IDENTIFY THE READ CHARACTERS, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING: MOVABLE REFLECTIVE MEANS IN OPTICAL ALIGNMENT WITH SAID EXAMINATION DEVICE AND A LINE OF CHARACTERS, MEANS TO SWEEP SAID REFLECTIVE MEANS RELATIVE TO SAID LINE MORE THAN ONCE IN A MANNER TO FORM, IN TURN, IMAGES OF SUCCESSIVE CHARACTERS OF THE LINE ON SAID EXAMINATION DEVICE, A STORAGE DEVICE OPERATED IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE SWEEP OF SAID REFLECTIVE MEANS SO THAT THE INSTANTANEOUS POSITIONS OF SAID STORAGE DEVICE CORRESPOND TO THE POSITIONS OF SAID REFLECTIVE MEANS, SO ENCODER FOR SAID CHARACTER-IDENTIFY SIGNALS, MEANS TO LOAD THE ENCODED SIGNALS INTO SAID STORAGE DEVICE IN THE TIME ORDER OF RECOGNITION BUT IN THE SPATIAL ORDER CORRESPONDING TO THE POSITIONS OF THE CHARACTERS IN SAID LINE SO THAT ANY CHARACTERS WHICH ARE UNRECOGNIZED DURING AN EARLIER SWEEP OF SAID REFLECTIVE MEANS BUT RECOGNIZED IN A LATER SWEEP ARE INSERTED IN SAID STORAGE DEVICE IN THEIR PROPER SPATIAL PLACES AS DETERMINED BY THEIR OCCURRENCE IN SAID LINE.