Multi-cycle program timer

Claim 1

A CONTROL DEVICE FOR SEQUENTIALLY ACTIVATING A SERIES OF ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PREDETERMINED CYCLE OF OPERATION, COMPRISING MASTER CONTROL MEANS, SLAVE CONTROL MEANS, AND SLAVE DRIVE MEANS INTERPOSED BETWEEN THE MASTER AND SLAVE CONTROL MEANS; SAID MASTER CONTROL MEANS INCLUDING A MEMBER ROTATABLY MOUNTED, MASTER DRIVE MEANS TO DRIVE SAID ROTATABLE MEMBER AT A TIMED RATE, TRACK MEANS ON THE ROTATABLE MEMBER, A CYCLE OF OPERATION COMPRISING ALTERNATE SIGNALING AND NONSIGNALING PORTIONS RECORDED ON SAID TRACK MEANS, SIGNALING MEANS TO TRACK IN SAID TRACK MEANS AND BEING ACTUABLE IN RESPONSE TO THE RECORDED CYCLE OF OPERATION, SAID SIGNALING MEANS BEING OPERATIVE WHEN ACTUATED BY THE SIGNALING PORTIONS OF THE CYCLE TO ACTUATE THE SLAVE DRIVE MEANS, SAID SLAVE CONTROL MEANS INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE MEMBER ROTATABLE MOUNTED, SWITCH-OPERATING MEANS ALONG SAID SLAVE ROTATABLE MEMBER, SWITCHING MEANS IN OPERATIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID SLAVE ROTATABLE MEMBER AND BEING ACTUABLE BY THE SWITCH-OPERATING MEANS TO SEQUENTIALLY ACTIVATE A SERIES OF ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR DIFFERENT OPERATIVE RELATIONSHIPS, SAID SLAVE DRIVE MEANS BEING EFFECTIVE TO DRIVE SAID ROTATABLE SLAVE MEMBER TO DIFFERENT OPERATIVE POSITIONS, CORRELATING MEANS TO MOVE WITH THE DRIVEN SLAVE MEMBER, SAID CORRELATING MEANS BEING EFFECTIVE AFTER ACTUATION OF THE SLAVE DRIVE MEANS TO TEMPORARILY SUPERSEDE THE MASTER DRIVE MEANS AND DRIVE THE DRIVEN MASTER MEMBER OVER THE SIGNALING PORTION OF THE RECORDED CYCLE WHEREBY THE DRIVEN SLAVE MEMBER IS MOVED A DISTANCE RELATED TO THE LENGTH OF THE SIGNALING PORTION PLUS THE LENGTH OF THE PRECEDING NON-SIGNALING PORTION OF THE RECORDED CYCLE SAID SLAVE MEMBER REMAINING IN THIS POSITION FOR A TIME RELATED TO THE TIMED MOVEMENT OF THE DRIVEN MASTER MEMBER AND THE LENGTH OF THE TEXT SUCCEEDING NON-SIGNALING PORTION OF THE RECORDED CYCLE.