Reproducing apparatus

Claim 1

A REPRODUCING MACHINE FOR REPRODUCING COPIES OF A DOCUMENT ON SHEETS OF RECORD MATERIAL INCLUDING, MEANS FOR ORIENTING THE DOCUMENT RELATIVE TO A FIXED POSITION DURING REPRODUCTION THEREOF, POSITIONABLE MEANS OPERABLE TO A PREDETERMINED CONDITION WHEN THE DOCUMENT IS IN FIXED POSITION, MEANS FOR RECEIVING AND FORMING A TRANSFERABLE IMAGE OF THE DOCUMENT, MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING SAID IMAGE TO THE SHEETS OF RECORD MATERIAL WHEN IN CONTACT WITH SAID IMAGE RECEIVING MEANS, FEED AND TRANSPORTING MECHANISM FOR FEEDING SERIATIM THE SHEETS OF RECORD MATERIAL INTO CONTACT WITH SAID IMAGE RECEIVING MEANS TO EFFECT TRANSFER OF SAID IMAGE UPON EACH SHEET OF THE RECORD MATERIAL, A COUNTER DEVICE OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID FEED AND TRANSPORTING MEANS FOR CUMULATIVELY RECORDING THE NUMBER OF THE SHEETS OF RECORD MATERIAL BEING TRANSPORTED, A REGISTERING MECHANISM ACTUATABLE FOR INDICATING TOTAL ACTUATION THEREOF AT THE RATE OF ONE ACTUATION PER INPUT PULSE IN RESPONSE TO INPUT PULSES RECEIVED BY SAID REGISTERING MECHANISM, MEANS OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID COUNTER DEVICE AND SAID REGISTERING MECHANISM TO GENERATE TO SAID REGISTERING MECHANISM A FIRST SERIES OF INPUT PULSES FOR EACH OF A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF TRANSPORTED SHEETS AND A SECOND SERIES OF INPUT PULSES FOR EACH OF ANOTHER PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF TRANSPORTED SHEETS, AND AN INTERLOCK CIRCUIT INCLUDING SWITCHING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID POSITIONABLE MEANS AND SAID COUNTER DEVICE FOR TERMINATING RECORDING BY THE LATTER WHEN SAID POSITIONABLE MEANS HAS BEEN OPERATED FROM SAID PREDETERMINED CONDITION.