Timing device

Claim 1

A TIME CODE GENERATOR FOR PRODUCING A DIFFERENT SERIAL CODE OF PULSES FOR EACH DIFFERENT TIME-OF-DAY REPRESENTING THE TIME OF DAY AT LEAST IN HOURS, MINUTES, AND SECONDS IN THE BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM COMPRISING: A CONSTANT FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR MECHANISM PRODUCING OSCILLATIONS AT DIFFERENT SUBMULTIPLE FREQUENCIES, A MULTISTAGE PULSE COUNTER ENERGIZED BY SAID OSCILLATOR AT ONE FREQUENCY AND HAVING A NUMBER OF BINARY STAGES TO PROVIDE A COUNT OF THE TIME-OF-DAY SECONDS, MINUTES, AND HOURS IN THE BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM, A READOUT REGISTER HAVING A NUMBER OF STAGES, INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE STATE FOR EACH STAGE OF THE COUNTER, WITH THE STAGES OF SAID READOUT REGISTER BEING INTERCONNECTED FOR SEQUENTIAL OPERATION THEREBETWEEN, EACH STAGE OF THE READOUT REGISTER STAGES ASSOCIATED WITH A COUNTER STAGE BEING CONNECTED TO SAMPLE THE BINARY ONE OR BINARY ZERO CONDITION OF THAT COUNTER STAGE AND THE OUTPUT LINES FROM ALL OF SAID REGISTER STAGES BEING CONNECTED IN COMMON, ACTUATING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A DIFFERENT HIGHER FREQUENCY OF OSCILLATION FROM SAID OSCILLATOR MECHANISM FOR CYCLING SAID READOUT REGISTER STAGES AT A PRESELECTED RATE CAPABLE OF COMPLETELY CYCLING ALL STAGES OF SAID READOUT REGISTER IN SEQUENCE WITHIN A TIME INTERVAL BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE COUNTS OF SAID PULSE COUNTER, WHEREBY SAID REGISTER PRODUCES A SERIES OF OUTPUT PULSES REPRESENTING THE TIME-OF-DAY IN THE BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM DURING EACH OF THE SUCCESSIVE COUNTS OF THE COUNTER.