Variable drive in a color mixer

Claim 1

IN A COLOR MIXER HAVING A PLURALITY OF INTERLEAVED COLOR PANELS MOUNTED TO PROJECT ONE IN FRONT OF THE OTHER AND A PLURALITY OF CONCENTRIC ROTATABLE SHAFTS COUPLED INDIVIDUALLY TO SAID PANELS TO ROTATE THE LATTER, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES: A PLURALITY OF AXIALLY SPACED OUTPUT GEARS MOUNTED INDIVIDUALLY ON SAID SHAFTS; A ROTARY INPUT SHAFT HAVING GEAR MEANS THEREON AND MOUNTED FOR ROTATION ABOUT AN AXIS SPACED FROM, AND EXTENDING PARALLEL TO, THE AXIS OF SAID SHAFTS; A PLURALITY OF CARRIERS SPACED APART IN SUCCESSION AXIALLY ALONG SAID INPUT SHAFT AND EXTENDING PERPENDICULAR TO SAID AXES OF ROTATION; A FIRST PULLEY AND A SECOND PULLEY ROTATABLY SUPPORTED BY EACH CARRIER, EACH FIRST PULLEY BEING DISPOSED LATERALLY TO ONE SIDE OF SAID INPUT SHAFT AND SAID CONCENTRIC SHAFTS, EACH SECOND PULLEY BEING DISPOSED LATERALLY TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID INPUT SHAFT AND SAID CONCENTRIC SHAFTS; A FLEXIBLE ENDLESS DRIVE LOOP TRAINED OVER EACH PAIR OF FIRST AND SECOND PULLEYS AND HAVING OPPOSITE, STRAIGHT, ELONGATED, PARALLEL COURSES OF MOVEMENT BETWEEN THEM, EACH SAID FLEXIBLE ENDLESS DRIVE LOOP IN ONE OF SAID STRAIGHT COURSES OF ITS MOVEMENT MESHING WITH SAID GEAR MEANS ON SAID INPUT SHAFT, EACH SAID FLEXIBLE ENDLESS DRIVE LOOP IN THE OPPOSITE STRAIGHT COURSE OF ITS MOVEMENT MESHING WITH A CORRESPONDING ONE OF SAID OUTPUT GEARS;