Telegraph signal bias and distortion meter

Claim 1

AN INDICATING DEVICE COMPRISING AN OSCILLATOR MEANS TO GENERATE CLOCK PULSE SIGNALS, SWITCHING MEANS COUPLED TO RECEIVE LINE PULSE SIGNALS, GATE MEANS URGED SELECTIVELY BY SAID SWITCHING MEANS TO PASS CLOCK PULSE SIGNALS DURING THE OCCURRENCE OF A LINE PULSE SIGNAL TO BE MEASURED, DUAL MODE COUNTER MEANS FED BY SAID GATE MEANS TO COUNT CLOCK PULSE SIGNALS PASSED BY SAID GATE MEANS, STORAGE MEANS TO HOLE THE COUNT PRESENT IN SAID DUAL MODE COUNTER MEANS, TRANSFER MEANS INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID STORAGE MEANS AND SAID DUAL MODE COUNTER MEANS, TRANSFER PULSE GENERATOR MEANS FED BY SAID SWITCHING MEANS COUPLED TO URGE SAID TRANSFER MEANS TO FEED THE INFORMATION IN THE DUAL MODE COUNTER MEANS TO THE STORAGE MEANS, READOUT MEANS FED BY SAID STORAGE MEANS TO TRANSFORM THE INFORMATION PRESENT IN SAID STORAGE MANS TO AN ANALOG POTENTIAL, METER MEANS FED BY SAID READOUT MEANS TO INDICATE DISTORTION PRESENT IN THE LINE PULSE SIGNAL MEASURED, AND RESET PULSE GENERATOR MEANS FED BY SAID TRANSFER PULSE GENERATOR MEANS COUPLED TO URGE SAID DUAL MODE COUNTER MEANS TO ITS ZERO STATE.