Device processing perforated tape with time track

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PERFORATED TAPES, COMPRISING A PERFORATING STATION, MEANS FOR ADVANCING THE TAPE TO THE PERFORATING STATION, MEANS INTERPOSED BETWEEN THE PERFORATING STATION AND THE ADVANCING MEANS FOR PRODUCING CYCLICALLY RECURRING ACCELERATION AND DECLERATION OF THE TAPE AT THE PERFORATNG STATION, SAID LATTER MEANS COMPRISING A FIRST MEMBER ROTATABLE ABOUT A GIVEN AXIS AND COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PIN MEMBERS UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED IN A CIRCULAR PATTERN AND PROJECTING INTO THE PATH OF SAID TAPE AND SUCCESSIVELY ENGAGING THE SAME, A SECOND MEMBER ROTATABLE ABOUT AN AXIS SPACED FROM THE AXIS OF THE FIRST MEMBER AND ROTATING IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE ROTATION OF SAID FIRST ROTATABLE MEMBER, SAID SECOND MEMBER COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PIN MEMBERS UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED IN A CIRCULAR PATTERN AND PROJECTING INTO THE PATH OF SAID TAPE AND INTERLEAVING THE PIN MEMBERS OF SAID FIRST ROTATABLE MEMBER THEREBY TO CYCLICALLY VARY THE PATH LENGTH OF THE TAPE BETWEEN SAID TAPE ADVANCING MEANS AND SAID PERFORATING STATION, TAPE BRAKING MEANS ARRANGED ADJACENT TO SAID PERFORATING STATION, AND TAPE LENGTH MEASURING MEANS ACTUATED BY SAID TAPE AND ARRANGED TO PRODUCE SUCCESSIVE SIGNAL PULSES UPON THE PASSAGE OF SUCCESSIVE PREDETERMINED LENGTHS OF TAPE, SAID MEASURING MEANS BEING COUPLED TO SAID BRAKING MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID BRAKING MEANS THEREBY TO INTERMITTENTLY STOP THE TAPE.