Mechanism for counting the operations of a machine

Claim 1

IN AN ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN MACHINE ADAPTED TO PERFORM AN OPERATION ON AN ARTICLE, WHICH MACHINE HAS A CHARACTERISTIC THAT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF OPERATIONS MAY EXCEED THE NUMBER OF ARTICLES HANDLED AND WHICH DRAWS A RELATIVELY LARGE CURRENT WHILE PERFORMING AN ACTUAL OPERATION AND A SMALLER CURRENT WHILE IDLING, AND WHICH OPERATION ENTAILS APPLICATION OF A FORCE TO THE ARTICLE, THE COMBINATION THEREWITH OF A MECHANISM FOR COUNTING BOTH THE NUMBER OF ACTUAL OPERATIONS AND THE NUMBER OF ARTICLES HANDLED, SAID MECHANISM COMPRISING FIRST AND SECOND COUNTERS, AN ELECTRIC CIRCUIT OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH SAID COUNTERS, MEANS IN SAID CIRCUIT RESPONSIVE TO THE RELATIVELY LARGE CURRENT OF AN ACTUAL OPERATION, SEPARATE MEANS IN SAID CIRCUIT RESPONSIVE TO THE APPLICATION OF FORCE TO THE ARTICLE, SAID CIRCUIT RESPONSIVE TO ACTUATE SAID COUNTERS ONLY WHEN BOTH SAID MEANS RESPOND AT THE SAME TIME, AND MEANS IN SAID CIRCUIT FOR PREVENTING FURTHER ACTUATION OF SAID SECOND COUNTER AFTER THE FIRST ACTUATION THEREOF AS LONG AS SUBSEQUENT OPERATIONS ARE PERFORMED ON THE SAME ARTICLE, WHEREBY SAID FIRST COUNTER SHOWS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF OPERATIONS, SAID SECOND COUNTER SHOWS THE NUMBER OF ARTICLES HANDLED, AND SIMULATED OPERATIONS ACTUATE NEITHER COUNTER.