Balancing system

Claim 1

IN APPARATUS FOR MAKING UNBALANCE CORRECTIONS IN A WORKPIECE HAVING ONLY CERTAIN AVAILABLE LOCATIONS WHERE UNBALANCE CORRECTIONS CAN BE MADE, THE COMBINATION OF UNBALANCE CORRECTION MEANS FOR MAKNG UNBALANCE CORRECTIONS IN A CERTAIN PLANE IN THE WORKPIECE, UNBALANCE MEASURING MEANS PROVIDING AN UNBALANCE SIGNAL CORRESPONDING TO THE AMOUNT AND THE ANGULAR DISPOSITION OF THE UNBALANCE IN THE CERTAIN CORRECTION PLANE IN THE WORKPIECE, AND INDEXING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE UNBALANCE CORNAL FOR POSITIONING THE WORKPIECE AND THE UNBALANCE CORRECTION MEANS RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER SO THAT THE UNBALANCE CORRECTION CAN BE MADE IN THE ONE OF THE AVAILABLE LOCATIONS IN THE WORKPIECE NEAREST TO THE ACTUAL ANGULAR DISPOSITION OF THE UNBALANCE, MEANS CONVERTING THE UNBALANCE SIGNAL INTO A SERIES OF COMPONENT SIGNALS PROPORTIONAL IN MAGNITUDE TO THE AMPLITUDE OF CORRESPONDING COMPONENT VECTORS HAVING A PREDETERMINED ANGULAR RELATIONSHIP TO EACH OTHER AND A VECTOR SUM EQUIVALENT TO THE UNBALANCE IN THE WORKPIECE, THE UNBALANCE CORRECTION MEANS BEING OPERATIVE IN RESPONSE TO THE SERIES OF COMPONENT SIGNALS TO MAKE THE UNBALANCE CORRECTION IN AMOUNTS DETERMINED BY EACH OF THE SERIES OF COMPONENT SIGNALS SO THAT THE RESULTANT CORRECTION AT THE ONE OF THE AVAILABLE LOCATIONS WILL CORRESPOND TO THAT REQUIRED TO CORRECT FOR THE UNBALANCE REPRESENTED BY THE UNBALANCE SIGNAL AND THE ACTUAL ANGULAR DISPOSITION THEREOF.