Binary pulse counter for radices 2x+1 where x is any integer

Claim 1

DIGITAL APPARATUS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF BISTABLE ELEMENTS, EACH ELEMENT HAVING RESET AND SET INPUT TERMINALS AND FIRST AND SECOND OUTPUT TERMINALS WHEREBY EACH ELEMENT PRODUCES A FIRST OUTPUT SIGNAL AT SAID FIRST OUTPUT TERMINAL WHEN SAID RESET TERMINAL IS PULSED AND A SECOND OUTPUT SIGNAL AT SAID SECOND OUTPUT TERMINAL WHEN SAID SET TERMINAL IS PULSED, A SOURCE OF PULSES, GATING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SOURCE FOR DIRECTING THE FLOW OF SAID PULSES TO ALL BUT ONE OF SAID INPUT TERMINALS OF A PARTICULAR ONE OF SAID BISTABLE ELEMENTS, CIRCUIT MEANS CONNECTED TO ALL BUT ONE OF SAID OUTPUT TERMINALS OF SAID PARTICULAR ONE OF SAID BISTABLE ELE-MENTS FOR APPLYING SAID OUTPUT SIGNALS TO SAID GATING MEANS FOR THE ACTUATION THEREOF IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN N-VALUED BINARY CYCLIC CODE TRUTH TABLE WHERE N=2M-1+2 AND M REPRESENTS THE NUMBVER OF SAID BISTABLE ELEMENTS, ONE OF THE COLUMNS OF SAID TRUTH TABLE CONSISTING OF N-2 CONSECUTIVE BINARY ONES AND TWO BINARY ZEROS, SAID ONE OF SAID COLUMNS CORRESPONDING TO SAID PARTICULAR ONE OF SAID BISTABLE ELEMENTS HAVING THE SINGULAR INPUT TERMINAL RECEIVING NO PULSES, AND MEANS FOR APPLYING TO SAID ONE OF SAID INPUT TERMINALS OF SAID PARTICULAR ONE OF SAID BISTABLE ELEMENTS AN OUTPUT SIGNAL FROM ANOTHER OF SAID BISTABLE ELEMENTS.