Template controlled figure display drum

Claim 1

IN A DEVICE FOR READING-OUT SYMBOLS OR THE LIKE INDICATED BY A SENDER ADAPTED TO CONTROL A FIGURE DRUM, THE COMBINATION OF: AT LEAST ONE FIGURE DRUM ADAPTED TO BE ROTATED, EACH FIGURE DRUM BEING PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF SYMBOLS WHICH ARE TO BE READ-OUT, EACH SAID FIGURE DRUM INCLUDING A TEMPLATE PORTION PROVIDED WITH MEANS ADAPTED FOR ACTUATING SWITCHING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID FIGURE DRUM, SAID SWITCH ACTUATING MEANS DEFINING DISTINGUISHABLE INDIVIDUAL GROUPINGS, WITH EACH OF SAID INDIVIDUAL GROUPINGS DESIGNATING ONE OF SAID SYMBOLS OF SAID FIGURE DRUM TO BE READ-OUT, A SINGLE BRAKE MEMBER COOPERATING WITH EACH FIGURE DRUM FOR BRAKING THE SAME AT A DESIRED POSITION TO INDICATE A PARTICULAR SYMBOL WHICH IS TO BE READ-OUT, AND SWITCHING MEANS COOPERAING WITH EACH FIGURE DRUM ADAPTED TO BE ACTUATED WHEN SAID INDIVIDUAL GROUPINGS ARE POSITIONED IN OPERATIVE RELATION RELATIVE TO SAID SWITCHING MEANS, AND WHEN SAID THUS POSITIONED INDIVIDUAL GROUPING OF SAID SWITCH ACTUATING MEANS CORRESPONDS TO A CONTROL SIGNAL TRANSMITTED BY SAID SENDER, SAID BRAKING MEANS IS CAUSED TO CARRY OUT BRAKING OF SAID FIGURE DRUM INTO SAID DESIRED POSITION TO INDICATE SAID PARTICULAR SYMBOL WHICH IS TO BE READ-OUT, SAID TEMPLATE PORTION OF EACH FIGURE DRUM BEING DIVIDED INTO A PLURALITY OF SECTORS CORRESPONDING IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF SYMBOLS TO BE READ-OUT, EACH OF SAID SECTORS BEING PROVIDED WITH SLIT MEANS ARRANGED IN A DEFINITE PATTERN TO DEFINE SAID INDIVIDUAL GROUPINGS, EACH OF WHICH DESIGNATES ONE OF SAID SYMBOLS, SAID SWITCHING MEANS COMPRISES LAMP EMITTER MEANS AND PHOTOELECTRIC CELL MEANS, SAID LAMP EMITTER MEANS AND SAID PHOTOELECTRIC CELL MEANS BEING FIXEDLY POSITIONED ON OPPOSITE FACES OF SAID TEMPLATE PORTION OF SAID FIGURE DRUM, SAID PHOTOELECTRIC CELL MEANS CORRESPONDING IN NUMBER TO THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SLIT MEANS APPEARING IN ANY INDIVIDUAL SECTOR.