Keyboard encoder with plural and different sets of code members

Claim 1

A KEY OPERATED MACHINE COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A PLURALITY OF KEYBUTTONS OPERABLE MANUALLY FOR CAUSING DIFFERENT MACHINE FUNCTIONS, A STOP MEMBER OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF SAID KEYBUTTONS FOR ACTUATION THEREBY, A FIRST PLURALITY OF OPERATIVELY ADJACENT SLIDES, EACH INDIVIDUALLY LONGITUDINALLY MOVABLE BETWEEN ACTIVE AND INACTIVE POSITIONS, A SECOND PLURALITY OF OPERATIVELY ADJACENT SLIDES, EACH INDIVIDUALLY LONGITUDINALLY MOVABLE BETWEEN ACTIVE AND INACTIVE POSITIONS AND POSITIONED OPERATIVELY ADJACENT SAID FIRST PLURALITY OF SLIDES, OPENINGS IN ALL OF SAID SLIDES IN EACH PLURALITY IN ALIGNMENT WITH EACH OTHER AT POINTS OPPOSITE SAID STOP MEMBERS WHEN SAID SLIDES ARE IN THEIR INACTIVE POSITIONS, SAID OPENINGS ADAPTED TO RECEIVE SAID STOP MEMBERS WHEN ACTUATED AND BEING OF SUCH LENGTHS THAT EACH OF SAID SLIDES IS EITHER HELD AGAINST MOVEMENT BY A STOP MEMBER OR IS PERMITTED TO MOVE TO ITS ACTIVE POSITION, MEANS YIELDINGLY URGING SAID SLIDES TOWARD THEIR ACTIVE POSITIONS, MEANS RELEASABLY HOLDING SAID SLIDES IN THEIR INACTIVE POSITIONS, MEANS OPERATING ON ACTUATION OF ANY ONE OF SAID STOP MEMBERS FOR RELEASING SAID HOLDING MEANS, MEANS OPERATING IN RESPONSE TO MOVEMENT OF SAID SLIDES TO ACTIVE POSITIONS FOR PRODUCING A FUNCTION REPRESENTATIVE OF THE KEYBUTTON ACTUATED, AND MANUALLY CONTROLLABLE MEANS FOR CONDITIONING SAID FIRST AND SECOND PLURALITY OF SLIDES FOR RESPONSE TO SAID KEYBUTTONS BY SELECTIVELY, ALTERNATELY, POSITIVELY INHIBITING LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT OF SAID FIRST PLURALITY OF SLIDES AND PERMITTING MOVEMENT OF SAID SECOND PLURALITY AND VICE VERSA.