Magnetic core ring circuit

Claim 1

A SELF ADVANCING RING CIRCUIT COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF STAGES EACH OF WHICH INCLUDES A MAGNETIC ELEMENT HAVING FIRST AND SECOND STATES OF MAGNETIC STABILITY, INPUT CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING THE SERIES CONECTION OF AN INPUT WINDING AND A CAPACITOR COUPLED TO SAID ELEMENT AND RESPONSIVE TO AN INPUT PULSE APPLIED THERETO TO CAUSE THE ELEMENT TO FIRST ASSUME ITS FIRST MAGNETIC STATE AND TO NEXT ASSUME ITS SECOND MAGNETIC STATE, AN OUTPUT WINDING MAGNETICALLY COUPLED TO SAID ELEMENT WHEREIN VOLTAGES ARE INDUCED UPON CHANGES OF THE ELEMENT FROM ONE STATE TO THE OTHER, AND A SWITCHING DEVICE COUPLED TO THE OUTPUT WINDING OF THE ELEMENT AND RESPONSIVE TO THE VOLTAGE INDUCED IN SAID OUTPUT WINDING DURING CHANGES OF THE ELEMENT FROM ITS FIRST STABLE STATE TO ITS SECOND STABLE STATE FOR PRODUCING AN OUTPUT PULSE, MEANS COUPLING THE SWITCHING DEVICE IN EACH STAGE EXCEPT THE LAST TO THE INPUT CIRCUIT MEANS OF THE NEXT SUCCEEDING STAGE SO THAT THE OUTPUT PULSE FROM EACHSTAGE IS APPLIED AS THE INPUT PULSE TO THE NEXT SUCCEEDING STAGE.