Automatic coulometric analyzer

Claim 1

IN AN ANALYZER, IN COMBINATION: (A) TWO CONTAINERS; (B) AN ELECTRODE IN EACH CONTAINER; (C) A CONDUIT CONNECTING SAID CONTAINERS, SAID CONDUIT HAVING AN INSIDE DIAMETER SUBSTANTIALLY NARROWER THAN THAT OF THE CONTAINERS SUCH THAT THE CONDUIT WILL ALLOW THE PASSAGE OF LIQUIDS IN SAID CONTAINERS; INTERMIXING OF LIQUIDS IN SAID CONTAINERS; (D) SUPPLY MEANS FOR SUPPLYING AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LIQUID MIXTURE TO SAID CONTAINERS AND TO SAID CONDUIT, SAID CONDUIT WHEN SUPPLIED WITH SAID MIXTURE CONSTITUTING AN ELECTROLYTIC BRIDGE BETWEEN SAID CONTAINERS; (E) A SOURCE OF DIRECT CURRENT ADAPTED TO BE CONNECTED TO SAID ELECTRODES; (F) PHOTOELECTRIC MEANS FOR GENERATING AN ELECTRICAL SIGNAL RESPONSIVE TO A COLOR DIFFERENCE OF RESPECTIVE PORTIONS OF SAID LIQUID MIXTURE IN SAID CONTAINERS; (G) ELECTRIC CONTROL MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID SUPPLY MEANS AND FOR CONNECTING SAID SOURCE OF CURRENT TO SAID ELECTRODES IN TIMED SEQUENCE; AND (H) TIME SENSING MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID CONTROL MEANS AND TO SAID PHOTOELECTRIC MEANS FOR SENSING THE TIME ELAPSED BETWEEN THE CONNECTING OF SAID SOURCE TO SAID ELECTRODES AND THE GENERATING OF SAID SIGNAL.