Digital storage and readout device

Claim 1

IN DIGITAL READOUT APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A SERIES OF TIME SPACED SIGNALS CORRESPONDING TO A STORED NUMERICAL VALUE, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING A STORAGE COUNTER AND A REFERENCE COUNTER, EACH OF SAID COUNTERS BEING OF THE TYPE CAPABLE OF STORING A COUNT AND FOR PRODUCING AN OUTPUT PULSE WHEN A PREDETERMINED COUNT IS ACHIEVED, MEANS FOR CONDITIONING SAID STORAGE COUNTER INITIALLY TO STORE A NUMBER NOT EXCEEDING SAID PREDETERMINED COUNT, MEANS FOR CONDITIONING SAID REFERENCE COUNTER INITIALLY TO STORE A COUNT OF ZERO, A SOURCE OF RECURRING PULSES, MEANS FOR COUPLING SAID SOURCE TO BOTH OF SAID COUNTERS, AN OUTPUT TERMINAL, MEANS FOR EFFECTIVELY CONNECTING SAID SOURCE TO SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL IN RESPONSE TO AN OUTPUT PULSE FROM SAID STORAGE COUNTER, AND MEANS FOR DISCONNECTING SAID SOURCE FROM SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL IN RESPONSE TO AN OUTPUT PULSE FROM SAID REFERENCE COUNTER SO THAT PULSES APPEAR AT SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL CORRESPONDING IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER INITIALLY STORED IN SAID STORAGE COUNTER.