Safety apparatus for vehicle operated by one person

Claim 1

COMBINED VEHICLE CONTROLLING AND MOTORMAN ALERTNESS SUPERVISORY SYSTEM COMPRISING: A FIRST MONOSTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR HAVING AN INPUT TERMINAL AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL; A FIRST VOLTAGE SOURCE HAVING DIFFERENT VOLTAGE POLARITY TERMINALS; FIRST SWITCH MEANS FOR CONNECTING ANY ONE OF SAID DIFFERENT VOLTAGE POLARITY TERMINALS OF SAID FIRST VOLTAGE SOURCE TO SAID INPUT TERMINAL OF SAID FIRST MONOSTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR; FIRST AND SECOND AND GATES; EACH HAVING TWO INPUT TERMINALS AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL; FIRST CONDUCTOR MEANS CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID FIRST SWITCH MEANS AND ONE INPUT OF EACH OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND AND GATES; A FIRST OR GATE HAVING TWO INPUT TERMINALS AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL, ONE INPUT TERMINAL BEING CONNECTED TO SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL OF SAID FIRST MONOSTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR; COUNTER MEANS INCLUDING AN INPUT TERMINAL AND TWO OUTPUT TERMINAL MEANS ONE OUTPUT TERMINAL MEANS PROVIDING SLOW COUNT SIGNALS AND THE OTHER OUTPUT TERMINAL MEANS PROVIDING RAPID COUNT SIGNALS, THE OUTPUT TERMINAL OF SAID FIRST OR GATE BEING CONNECTED TO THE INPUT TERMINAL MEANS OF SAID COUNTER MEANS, SAID ONE OUTPUT TERMINAL MEANS OF SAID COUNTER MEANS BEING CONNECTED TO ONE INPUT TERMINAL OF EACH OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND AND GATES; SECOND AND THIRD OR GATES, EACH HAVING TWO INPUT TERMINALS AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL, ONE OF THE INPUT TERMINALS OF EACH SAID SECOND AND THIRD OR GATE BEING CONNECTED TO SAID OTHER OUTPUT TERMINAL MEANS OF SAID COUNTER MEANS, THE OTHER OF THE INPUT TERMINALS OF EACH SAID SECOND AND THIRD OR GATES BEING CONNECTED WITH THE OUTPUT TERMINAL OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND AND GATES, RESPECTIVELY; FIRST AND SECOND BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATORS, EACH HAVING TWO INPUT TERMINALS, THE FIRST BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR HAVING TWO OUTPUT TERMINALS AND THE SECOND BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR HAVING ONE OUTPUT TERMINAL, SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL OF EACH OF SAID SECOND AND THIRD OR GATE BEING CONNECTED TO ONE INPUT TERMINAL OF THE FIRST AND SECOND BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATORS, RESPECTIVELY; SECOND CONDUCTOR MEANS CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL OF SAID FIRST OR GATE AND ANOTHER INPUT TERMINAL OF EACH SAID FIRST AND SECOND BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR; ALERTING MEANS CONNECTED TO ONE OUTPUT TERMINAL OF SAID FIRST BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR; ACTUATING MEANS FOR RETARDING THE SPEED OF THE VEHICLE CONNECTED TO SAID ONE OUTPUT TERMINAL IF SAID SECOND BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR; A SECOND VOLTAGE SOURCE HAVING DIFFERENT VOLTAGE POLARITY TERMINALS; A SECOND MONOSTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR INCLUDING AN INPUT TERMINAL AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL; SECOND SWITCH MEANS FOR CONNECTING ANY ONE OF SAID DIFFERENT POLARITY TERMINALS OF SAID SECOND VOLTAGE SOURCE TO SAID INPUT TERMINAL OF SAID SECOND MONOSTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR; A FOURTH AND GATE HAVING TWO INPUT TERMINALS AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL, ONE INPUT TERMINAL BEING CONNECTED TO SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL OF SAID SECOND MONOSTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR, THE OUTPUT TERMINAL BEING CONNECTED TO THE OTHER INPUT OF SAID FIRST OR GATE; AND, THIRD CONDUCTOR MEANS CONNECTED BETWEEN THE OTHER OUTPUT TERMINAL OF SAID FIRST BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR AND THE OTHER INPUT OF SAID FOURTH AND GATE.