Electronic bottle width selector

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING BOTTLES OF DIFFERENT WIDTHS, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING; AN INSPECTION STATION HAVING FIRST AND SECOND LIGHT SOURCES FOR PROJECTING FIRST AND SECOND PARALLEL LIGHT BEAMS SPACED APART LATERALLY BY A DISTANCE LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE WIDE BOTTLES TO BE IDENTIFIED BUT GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE NARROW BOTTLES; CONVEYOR MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING BOTTLES TO BE IDENTIFIED ONE BY ONE TRANSVERSELY THROUGH SAID FIRST AND SECOND BEAMS TO INTERCEPT SAID BEAMS; FIRST AND SECONE PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICES FOR RECEIVING LIGHT RESPECTIVELY FROM SAID FIRST AND SECOND LIGHT BEAMS AND FOR GENERATING ELECTRICAL OUTPUT SIGNALS IN RESPONSE THERETO; A FIRST BISTABLE FLIP-FLOP CIRCUIT; ELECTRONIC MEANS FOR COUPLING THE OUTPUT SIGNALS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICES TO SAID FIRST BISTABLE CIRCUIT TO PLACE SAID BISTABLE CIRCUIT IN ONE STATE OR THE OTHER ACCORDING TO WHETHER OR NOT SAID FIRST AND SECOND LIGHT BEAMS ARE CONCURRENTLY INTERCEPTED; A SECOND BISTABLE FLIP-FLOP CIRCUIT; A TWOPOSITION SELECTION SWITCH HAVING TWO INPUT TERMINALS AND ONE OUTPUT TERMINAL; MEANS COUPLING SAID TWO INTPUT TERMINALS TO OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID FIRST BISTABLE CIRCUIT; MEANS COUPLING SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL OF SAID SWITCH TO THE INPUT OF SAID SECOND BISTABLE CIRCUIT TO CONTROL THE STATE OF SAID SECOND BISTABLE CIRCUIT ACCORDING TO THE STATE OF SAID FIRST BISTABLE CIRCUIT AND THE POSITION OF SAID SELECTION SWITCH; AND MEANS FOR UTILIZING THE OUTPUT OF SAID SECOND BISTABLE CIRCUIT AS A SIGNAL FOR EJECTING EITHER A WIDE BOTTLE OF A NARROW BOTTLE ACCORDING TO THE POSITION OF SAID SECTION SWITCH.