Radiation responsive selectively programmed controller

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AN AUTOMATIC SELECTIVELY PROGRAMMED CONTROLLER FOR ACTUATING AND CYCLING THE OPERATION OF AN ELECTRICALLY ENERGIZED MACHINE AND FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME WHICH COMPRISES: A HOLLOW DRUM SUPPORTED FOR ROTATION ABOUT ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS, THE WALL OF SAID DRUM HAVING OPENINGS THERETHROUGH ARRANGED IN LONGITUDINAL ROWS, AN INDIVIDUAL SHUTTER FOR EACH OF SAID OPENINGS, SAID SHUTTERS CARRIED BY SAID DRUM AND MOVABLE TO SELECTIVELY COVER AND UNCOVER SAID OPENINGS, MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY MOVING SAID SHUTTERS TO UNCOVER SAID OPENINGS, A HOLDER DISPOSED, SPACED FROM AND SUPPORTED WITHIN SAID DRUM AND HAVING A ROW OF SPACED APART RECESSES ALINED WITH ONE OF THE ROWS OF SAID OPENINGS, A PHOTOSENSITIVE RESISTOR DISPOSED IN EACH OF SAID RECESSES WITH A SENSITIVE PORTION THEREOF DIRECTED OUTWARDLY OF SAID RECESS IN A DIRECTION TOWARD SAID DRUM, A ROW OF SPACED APART ILLUMINATING SOURCES ALINED WITH SAID ROW OF RECESSES AND DISPOSED AND SUPPORTED ON THE SIDE OF SAID DRUM OPPOSITE SAID HOLDER, WHEREBY SAID OPENINGS ARE INTERMEDIATE SAID SOURCES AND SAID RECESSES, MOTOR MEANS FOR SELECTED STEPWISE ROTATION OF SAID DRUM WHEREBY SUCCESSIVE ROWS OF OPENINGS WILL BE INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID RECESSES AND SAID SOURCES, CIRCUIT SWITCHING MEANS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID RESISTORS AND SAID MACHINE FOR ENERGIZING SAID MACHINE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ILLUMINATION OF SAID RESISTORS WHEREBY THE ACTIVITY OF SAID MACHINE WILL BE CONTROLED BY THE POSITIONS OF SAID SHUTTERS AS THE DRUM IS ROTATED.