Apparatus for receiving meassages and transmitting them in certain of a number of directions

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IN A SYSTEM FOR RECEIVING INFORMATION SIGNALS OF THE TYPE HAVING AN ADDRESS PORTION IN CODED DIGITAL FORM AND FOR SELECTIVELY TRANSMITTING SAID INFORMATION SIGNALS TO A PLURALITY OF OUTPUT CHANNELS IN RESPONSE TO SAID ADDRESS PORTION, A PLURALITY OF GATE MEANS EACH HAVING AN OUTPUT TERMINAL CONNECTED TO A SEPARATE OUTPUT CHANNEL, AN INPUT TERMINAL, AND A CONTROL TERMINAL, DELAY MEANS, MEANS APPLYING SAID INFORMATION SIGNALS TO SAID DELAY MEANS, MEANS APPLYING THE OUTPUT OF SAID DELAY MEANS TO THE INPUT TERMINALS OF SAID GATE MEANS, ADDRESS ANALYZER MEANS, AND MEANS APPLYING SAID INFORMATION SIGNALS TO SAID ADDRESS ANALYZER MEANS, SAID ADDRESS ANALYZER BEING RESPONSIVE TO SAID ADDRESS PORTION TO SELECTIVELY APPLY CONTROL SIGNALS TO SAID CONTROL TERMINALS WHEREBY SAID GATE MEANS ARE SELECTIVELY OPENED, SAID ADDRESS ANALYZER BEING UNRESPONSIVE TO FURTHER PORTIONS OF SAID INFORMATION SIGNALS, THE DELAY OF SAID DELAY MEANS BEING SUFFICIENT THAT SAID INFORMATION SIGNALS ARE APPLIED TO SAID INPUT TERMINALS ONLY WHEN SAID ADDRESS ANALYZER HAS COMPLETELY ANALYZED SAID ADDRESS PORTION AND OPENED THE SELECTED GATES, SAID DELAY MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF COLUMNS OF STORING PULSE GENERATORS EACH HAVING A PAIR OF COUPLED COCKING TERMINALS, A FIRING TERMINAL, AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL, FIRST CIRCULATING SHIFT REGISTER MEANS FOR APPLYING PULSES SEQUENTIALLY TO SAID COLUMNS OF PULSE GENERATORS WHEREBY A PULSE IS SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLIED TO ONE COCKING TERMINAL OF ALL OF THE PULSE GENERATORS OF EACH COLUMN, MEANS APPLYING SAID INFORMATION SIGNALS TO THE OTHER COCKING TERMINALS OF SAID PULSE GENERATORS WHEREBY SAID INFORMATION SIGNALS ARE STORED SEQUENTIALLY IN SAID COLUMNS, AND MEANS FOR SEQUENTIALLY APPLYING INFORMATION SIGNALS STORED IN SAID COLUMNS TO THE INPUT TERMINALS OF SAID GATE MEANS BY WAY OF THE OUTPUT TERMINALS OF SAID PULSE GENERATORS.