Tariff setting arrangement for taximeters

Claim 1

RATE VARYING ARRANGEMENT FOR A TAXIMETER, COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, FARE REPRESENTING MEANS; CONTROL MEANS INCLUDING A CONTROL SHAFT MOVABLE BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF POSITIONS INCLUDING TWO RATE CHANGING POSITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFERENT RATES AND BEING OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH SAID FARE REPRESENTING MEANS TO EFFECT IN SAID RATE CHANGING POSITIONS MOVEMENTS OF SAID FARE REPRESENTING MEANS AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS CORRESPONDING TO DIFFERENT RATES; ELECTRIC MOTOR MEANS FOR MOVING SAID CONTROL MEANS SHAFT BETWEEN SAID POSTIONS; MEANS ACTUATED BY SAID CONTROL MEANS FOR STOPPING SAID MOTOR MEANS AND THEREBY SAID CONTROL SHAFT IN EACH OF SAID POSITIONS OF THE SAME SWITCHING MEANS; CONECTED INTO THE CIRCUIT OF SAID ELECTRIC MOTOR MEANS; AND OPERATING MEANS FOR SAID SWITCHING MEANS COUPLED BY SAID CONTROL MEANS IN ONE OF SAID RATE CHANGING POSITIONS TO SAID FARE REPRESENTING MEANS SO AS TO BE ACTUATED BY SAID FARE REPRESENTING MEANS TO OPERATE SAID SWITCHING MEANS TO START OPERATION OF SAID ELECTRIC MOTOR MEANS IN AT LEAST ONE PRESELECTED POSITION OF SAID FARE REPRESENTING MEANS WHEREBY SAID CONTROL MEANS IS MOVED BY SAID ELECTRIC MOTOR MEANS AUTOMATICALLY FROM SAID ONE RATE CHANGING POSITION TO THE OTHER RATE CHANGING POSITION SO THAT SAID FARE REPRESENTING MEANS OPERATES FROM SAID PRESELECTED POSITION ON IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RATE ASSOCIATED WITH SAID OTHER RATE CHANGING POSITION.