Punched-card reader

Claim 1

A CODED-INFORMATION PUNCHED-CARD READER COMPRISING AN ARRAY OF APERTURE SENSING PINS AND ARTICULATED LATCHES ARRANGED APERTURE SENSING PINS AND ARTICULATED SON BETWEEN NON-SENSING AND CODE-APERTURE SENSING POSITIONS TO EFFECT SPRING-BIASED SENSING BY SAID PINS OF INDIVIDUAL ONES OF A CORRESPONDING ARRAY OF INDEX-POINT CODE APERTURES OF A PUNCH CARD, POWER DRIVEN MEANS FOR PERMITTING BIASED MOVEMENT OF SAID SENSING PINS FROM NONSENSING TO SENSING POSITION AND FOR RETURNING SAID PINS BY BIAS-OPPOSING POWER DRIVE TO SAID NON-SENSING POSITION, AN ARRAY OF CODE-STORAGE ELEMENTS CORRESPONDING TO SAID ARRAY OF SENSING PINS AND HAVING INDIVIDUAL ACTUATORS ADAPTED TO BE INDIVIDUALLY ALIGNED WITH AND LATCHABLY ENGAGED BY AN INDIVIDUAL ONE OF SAID LATCHES AND DRIVINGLY MOVED THEREBY FROM NON-STORAGE TO CODE-STORAGE POSITION BY POWER DRIVEN RETURN MOVEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL ONES OF ANY OF SAID SENSING PINS WHICH SENSE A CORRESPONDING APERTURE IN SAID CARD, THEREBY TO STORE BY THE POSITIONING OF SAID ELEMENTS THE CODED INFORMATION SENSED IN EACH CARD READ, AND MEANS FOR MOVING ALL OF SAID LATCHES TO UNLATCH POSITION OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH SAID ACTUATOR PRIOR TO COMPLETION OF SAID MOVEMENT OF SAID SENSING PINS FROM NON-SENSING TO SENSING POSITION.