Character identifying arrangement

Claim 1

AN ANALYZING AND CONVERTING ARRANGEMENT FOR ANALYSING CHARACTERS IN RELATIVE HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT, EACH CHARACTER BEING COMPOSED OF A FIXED NUMBER OF VERTICAL BARS, THE LATTER HAVING THEIR HOMOLOGOUS EDGES SEPARATED BY INTERVALS OF TWO DIFFERENT WIDTHS WITH A FIXED NUMBER OF SO-CALLED "LONG" INTERVALS DIFFERENTLY LOCATED AMONG OTHER INTERVALS CALLED "SHORT" INTERVALS, COMPRISING READING MEANS FOR GENERATING AN EFFECTIVE READING SIGNAL FOR ONE EDGE OF EACH BAR READ, TIME MEASURING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID READING MEANS TO RECEIVE SAID READING SIGNALS FOR DETECTING A LONG INTERVAL BETWEEN TWO CONSECUTIVE READING SIGNALS AND FOR EMITTING A DISTINCT PULSE UPON SUCH DETECTION AND INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE TIME DISCRIMINATING MEANS, FIRST STORAGE MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID DISCRIMINATING MEANS FOR MOMENTARILY STORING SAID DISTINCTIVE PULSE, SECOND STORAGE MEANS HAVING SEVERAL STORAGE POSITIONS AND SWITCHING MEANS WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SAID SECOND STORAGE MEANS AND WHICH ARE CONNECTED TO BE ACTUATED STEP-BY-STEP BY SAID READING SIGNALS IN ORDER TO CAUSE SAID SECOND STORAGE MEANS TO STORE A BINARY VALUE ASSIGNED TO SUCH A LONG INTERVAL INTO APPROPRIATE STORAGE POSITIONS UNDER CONTROL OF SAID FIRST STORAGE MEANS.