Receiving system for an electronic teleprinter

Claim 1

A RECEIVING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC TELEPRINTERS COMPRISING: A SIGNAL SCANNING DEVICE FOR RECEIVING INCOMING SIGNALS; MEANS CONNECTING SAID SCANNING DEVICE TO A MULTIVIBRATOR AND A FREQUENCY DIVIDER, SUCH THAT THE INCOMING START AND STOP ELEMENTS OF THE INCOMING SIGNALS RESPECTIVELY CAUSE THE START AND STOPPING OF OSCILLATIONS PRODUCED BY SAID MULTIVIBRATOR AND FREQUENCY DIVIDER; A BINARY COUNTER CONNECTED TO SAID FREQUENCY DIVIDER FOR DISTRIBUTING THE TELEPRINTER SIGNAL COMBINATIONS TO A PLURALITY OF COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS; A STORAGE FLIP-FLOP CONNECTED TO EACH OF SAID COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS AND CONTROLLED BY BOTH THE COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS AND THE INCOMING SIGNALS; AND MEANS IN SAID SIGNAL SCANNING DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING THE SCANNING TIME POSITION IN RELATION TO THE START ELEMENT OF THE INCOMING SIGNALS, WHEREBY SAID COINCIDENCE CIRCUIT ARE SUCCESSIVELY CAUSED TO TRANSMIT POSITIVE PULSES ERASING THEIR ASSOCIATED STORAGE FLIP-FLOP BY THE ACTION OF THE BINARY COUNTER, AND THE NEGATIVE PULSE PRODUCED AT THE TRAILING EDGE OF SAID POSITIVE PULSE, DEPENDING ON THE POTENTIAL OF THE INCOMING SIGNALS, SERVES IN ONE CASE TO MARK THE RESPECTIVE STORAGE AND IN ANOTHER CASE IS DIRECTED TO GROUND BY A DIODE.