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IN A PRESET COUNTER OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED, AN ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING A STATIONARY SUPPORTING STRUCTURE, A WHEEL HAVING A PLURALITY OF CIRCUMFERENTIAL DISPOSED INDICIA THEREON ROTATABLE ON SAID STRUCTURE ABOUT A FIRST AXIS, SAID WHEEL HAVING FIRST GEAR MEANS THEREON, SECOND GEAR MEANS MESHING WITH SAID FIRST GEAR MEANS AND ROTATABLE ON SAID STRUCTURE ABOUT A SECOND AXIS WHICH IS PARALLEL TO AND SPACED FROM SAID FIRST AXIS, FIRST BEVEL GEAR MEANS ON SAID SECOND GEAR MEANS AND ROTATABLE ABOUT SAID SECOND AXIS, A SHAFT HAVING ITS AXIS EXTENDING PERPENDICULAR TO SAID SECOND AXIS AND ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID STRUCTURE, SECOND BEVEL GEAR MEANS ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID SHAFT, AN ARM ATTACHED TO SAID SECOND BEVEL GEAR MEANS AND ROTATABLE THEREWITH, MAGNET MEANS ON THE END OF SAID ARM MOVABLE IN A CIRCULAR PATH ABOUT THE AXIS OF SAID SHAFT, A SECOND ARM ATTACHED TO SAID SHAFT FOR ROTATING THE SAME, A REED TYPE SWITCH HAVING TWO TERMINALS AND ACTUABLE BY SAID MAGNET MEANS CARRIED ON SAID SHAFT, KNOB MEANS CARRIED ON SAID SHAFT FOR ROTATING THE SAME AND SAID SWITCH ALONG A SECOND CIRCULAR PATH COAXIAL WITH SAID FIRST PATH, A PAIR OF CIRCULAR CONTACTS INSULATELY MOUNTED ON SAID STRUCTURE COAXIAL WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH SAID SHAFT, A PAIR OF WIPER ARMS CARRIED ON SAID SECOND ARMS AND EACH CONNECTING RESPECTIVELY A CORRESPONDING ONE OF SAID TERMINALS TO A CORRESPONDING ONE OF SAID CIRCULAR CONTACTS, SAID SWITCH BEING ACTUATED BY SAID MAGNET MEANS ONLY WHEN SAID SWITCH AND MAGNET MEANS ARE ANGULARLY ALIGNED IN THEIR ROTATION ABOUT THE AXIS OF SAID SHAFT, AND INDEXING MEANS FOR RELEASABLY MAINTAINING SAID SHAFT AND SWITCH IN EACH OF A PLURALITY OF POSITIONS CORRESPONDING RESPECTIVELY TO A CORRESPONDING ONE OF SAID CORRESPONDINGLY DISPOSED INDICIA.