Signal operated control means for keyboard and like machines

Claim 1

IN AN ARRANGEMENT FOR CONTROLLING CONTROL ELEMENTS OF A KEYBOARD AND THE LIKE MACHINE BY SIGNALS DERIVED FROM A RECORD CARRIER, IN COMBINATION, FIRST CONVERSION MEANS FOR SEQUENTIALLY CONVERTING RECORD MARKS PRERECORDED ON THE RECORD CARRIER AND RESPECTIVELY REPRESENTING A VARIETY OF DATA, INTO SIGNAL SEQUENCES, THE NUMBER OF SIGNALS THEREOF REPRESENTING RESPECTIVELY SAID DATA; A MATRIX TYPE ARRANGEMENT OF ROWS AND COLUMNS OF A PLURALITY OF CONTROL MEANS SELECTIVELY OPERABLE BY APPLICATION OF CONTROL SIGNALS FOR CONTROLLING THE CONTROL ELEMENTS OF THE KEYBOARD MACHINE RESPECTIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID DATA REPRESENTED BY SAID MARKS ON SAID RECORD CARRIER, EACH OF SAID CONTROL MEANS BEING RESPONSIVE ONLY TO SIMULTANEOUS APPLICATION OF A FIRST SIGNAL IN COLUMN DIRECTION AND A SECOND SIGNAL IN ROW DIRECTION; SECOND CONVERSION MEANS CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID FIRST CONVERSION MEANS AND SAID MATRIX TYPE ARRANGEMENT FOR CONVERGINT EACH PARTICULAR SEQUENCE OF SIGNALS OF SAID FIRS CONVERSION MEANS INTOSAID FIRST AND SECOND SIGNALS AND FOR APPLYING SAID FIRST AND SECOND SIGNALS TO THAT COLUMN AND THAT ROW, RESPECTIVELY, WHICH DETERMINE AT THEIR INTERSETION THE PARTICULAR CONTROL MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NUMBER OF SIGNALS CONTAINED IN THE SAID PARTICULAR SEQUENCE OF SIGNALS AND THEREBY WITH THE PARTICULAR DATA REPRESENTED BY SUCH SEQUENCE OF SIGNALS; AND MEANS CONNECTED WITH SAID FIRST CONVERSION MEANS FOR INTERCALATING A PREDETERMINED PERIOD OF TIME BETWEEN CONSECUTIVE ONES OF SAID SIGNAL SEQUENCE WHENEVER CONSECUTIVE MARKS ON SAID RECORD CARRIER REPRESENT THE SAME DATA AND WOULD THEREFORE ENTAIL CONSECUTIVELY REPEATED ACTUATION OF THE CORRESPONDING CONTROL MEANS IN SAID MATRIX ARRANGEMENT.