Multi-station variable timing apparatus

Claim 1

A CURRENT CONTROL APPARATUS COMPRISING IN COMBINATION; FIRST AND SECOND SOLENOIDS; CURRENT GATING MEANS COUPLED WITH SAID FIRST SOLENOID HAVING A PLURALITY OF SIGNAL OUTPUT TERMINALS AND RESPONSIVE TO REPEATED ENERGIZATION OF SAID FIRST SOLENOID TO CAUSE SEQUENTIAL ENERGIZATION OF SAID TERMINALS; A PLURALITY OF LOAD MEANS INDIVIDUALLY CONNECTED TO DIFFERENT ONES OF SAID TERMINALS; A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUALLY VARIABLE RESISTIVE IMPEDANCE ELEMENTS; MEANS CONNECTING EACH OF SAID ELEMENTS TO ONE OF SAID TERMINALS; CURRENT CONTROL MEANS CONNECTED IN SERIES CIRCUIT WITH SAID FIRST SOLENOID; A TIMING CAPACITOR; MEANS CONNECTING SAID CAPACITOR TO EACH OF SAID ELEMENTS; VOLTAGE RESPONSIVE MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID CAPACITOR AND TO SAID CURRENT CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A PREDETERMINED VOLTAGE ON SAID CAPACITOR TO RENDER SAID CURRENT CONTROL MEANS CONDUCTIVE; FIRST AND SECOND SWITCH MEANS CONNECTED IN SERIES CIRCUIT WITH SAID CAPACITOR AND ADAPTED WHEN CLOSED TO APPLY SAID PREDETERMINED VOLTAGE THERETO; TIMING MEANS COUPLED WITH SAID FIRST SWITCH MEANS AND ADAPTED TO CONTROL THE TIME DURING WHICH SAID FIRST SWITCH MEANS IS CLOSED;