Shift register with means for displaying stored information

Claim 1

IN A DISPLAY ARRANGEMENT FOR A WAVEFORM COMPOSED OF A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF ELEMENTS EACH CORRESPONDING TO ONE OR OTHER OF TWO VALUES, A SERIES OF BISTABLE DEVICES EQUAL IN NUMBER TO SAID PREDETERMINED NUMMBER AND CONNECTED TO FORM A SHIFT REGISTER, A GATING DEVICE FOR GATING THE APPLICATION OF SAID WAVEFORM TO THE FIRST DEVICE OF SAID SHIFT REGISTER, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING A CONTROL PULSE TO OPERATE SAID GATING DEVICE, MEANS FOR OPERATING THE FIRST BI-STABLE DEVICE OF SAID SHIFT REGISTER WHEN SAID WAVEFORM CORRESPONDS TO ONE OF SAID VALUES, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING REGULARLY REPEATED CONTROL PULSES TO TRANSFER THE OPERATION OF SAID FIRST BI-STABLE DEVICE DOWN THE SHIFT REGISTER, MEANS FOR RESETTING SAID GATING DEVICE RESPONSIVE TO THE OPERATION OF THE LAST OF SAID BI-STABLE DEVICE FORMING SAID SHIFT REGISTER, A PLURALITY OF VISUAL INDICATING DEVICES EQUAL IN NUMBER TO SAID PREDETERMINED NUMBER AND RESPECTIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH BI-STABLE DEVICES FORMING SAID SHIFT REGISTER, AND MEANS FOR OPERATING SAID INDICAING DEVICES WHEN THE ASSOCIATED BI-STABLE DEVICES ARE OPERATED TO GIVE A VISUAL INDICATION OF THE VALUES OF SAID PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF ELEMENTS IN SAID WAVEFORM.