Metering and computing apparatus

Claim 1

METERING AND COMPUTING APPARATUS COMPRISING MEANS TO GENERATE A SUCCESSION OF FIRST PULSES PROPORTIONAL IN NUMBER TO THE QUANTITY OF MATERIAL METERED, MEANS TO TOTALIZE SAID FIRST PULSES FOR INDICATION OF THE QUANTITY OF MATERIAL METERED, A PLURAL ORDER DECIMAL COUNTER, CARRY MEANS BETWEEN ADJACENT ORDERS OF SAID COUNTER, MEANS TO DEVELOP CYLICALLY, FOR EACH OCCURRENCE OF A SELECTED NUMBER OF SAID FIRST PULSES REPRESENTATIVE OF AN INCREMENT OF FIVE UNIT QUANTITIES OF MATERIAL METERED, A SEQUENCE OF AT LEAST NINE SECOND PULSES, AND A SEPARATE TEN-POSITION SWITCH FOR EACH OF SAID ORDERS COUPLED BETWEEN SAID LASTNAMED MEANS AND SEPARATE ORDER OF SAID COUNTER, EACH OF SAID SWITCHES INCLUDING TEN STATIONARY TERMINALS CONNECTED TO THE OUTPUTS OF SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS TO RECEIVE ON EACH CYCLE OF SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS A NUMBER OF PULSES EQUAL TO THE INTEGRAL PART OF ONE HALF THE NUMBER OF THE POSITION OF SUCH CONTACT IN THE POSITIONAL SERIES 0 TO N-1, A FIRST MOVABLE CONTACT ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID TEN STATIONARY CONTACTS AND WITH THE INPUT TO THE COUNTER OF ITS ORDER, FIVE STATIONARY CONTACTS CONNECTED TO SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS TO RECEIVE FIRST PULSES ON EACH CYCLE OF SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS AND A SECOND MOVABLE CONTACT ENGAGEABLE WITH THE FIRST MOVABLE CONTACT OF THE SWITCH OF ADJACENT LOWER ORDER AND WITH ONE OF SAID FIVE STATIONARY CONTACTS FOR ODD-NUMBERED POSITIONS OF SAID FIRST-NAMED FIRST MOVABLE CONTACT.