Currency controlled gasoline dispenser

Claim 1

IN A LIQUID VENDING SYSTEM, THE COMBINATION OF (1) CURRENCY ACCEPTING MEANS HAVING A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUALLY OPERATED CREDIT INPUT DEVICES EACH ADAPTED TO PRODUCE A SEPARATE, DIFFERENT VALUE PULSE FOR EACH DENOMINATION OF CURRENCY ACCEPTED, THE VALUES OF SAID PULSES COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE UNIT VALUE OF CURRENCY AND AT LEAST TWO SUCCESSIVE BINARY MULTIPLES THEREOF, (2) A BINARY CREDIT ACCUMULATOR, COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF BINARY ORDER MECHANISMS, ADJACENT ONES OF WHICH REPRESENT SUCCESSIVE BINARY VALUES AND EACH OF WHICH HAS A ZERO AND A CREDIT POSTED CONDITION, (A) TRANSFER MEANS CONNECTING ADJACENT ORDER MECHANISMS, (3) MEANS CONNECTING EACH INPUT DEVICE TO FEED ITS VALUE PULSES DIRECTLY TO THE COVALENT BINARY ORDER MECHANISM, (A) SAID BINARY ORDER MECHANISMS AND TRANSFER MEANS SERVING TO ACCUMULATE THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE PULSES, EACH TIME A PULSE OCCURS, (4) DISPENSING MEANS HAVING A LIQUID LINE, (A) A METER IN SAID LINE, (5) COST REGISTERING MEANS DRIVEN BY SAID METER, (6) A CONTROL DEVICE MOVABLE BETWEEN ON AND OF POSITIONS, (7) MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID CONTROL DEVICE, WHEN IT IS IN THE ON POSITION AND A SECOND DEVICE CONDITIONED BY THE CREDIT ACCUMULATOR WHEN CREDIT IS ACCUMULATED THEREON FOR RESETTING SAID REGISTERING MEANS TO ZERO, (8) MEANS OPERABLE BY SAID RESETTING MEANS, WHEN SAID REGISTERING MEANS IS RESET TO ZERO, FOR ACTIVATING SAID DISPENSING MEANS, (9) A PULSE GENERATOR OPERATED BY SAID REGISTERING MEANS, SO AS TO PRODUCE ONE PULSE PER UNIT VALUE OF LIQUID DISPENSED, (10) MEANS CONNECTING SAID PULSE GENERATOR TO ACTUATE SAID CREDIT ACCUMULATOR TO REDUCE THE TOTAL CREDIT ON SAID CREDIT ACCOMULATOR BY ONE, LOWEST ORDER, BINARY UNIT VALUE FOR EACH PULSE, AND (11) MEANS OPERABLE WHEN THE CREDIT IS REDUCED TO ZERO FOR DEACTIVATING SAID DISPENSING MEANS.