Bidirectional static counter controlled by counting signals and auxiliary counting signals

Claim 1

A STATIC COUNTER FOR COUNTING FORWARD OR BACKWARD AND CONTROLLED BY COUNTING SIGNALS AND AUXILIARY COUNTING SIGNALS WHICH DO NOT CHANGE THEIR STATE SIMULTANEOUSLY, SAID COUNTER COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION: (A) PLURALITY OF BINARY COUNTER STAGES EACH INCORPORATING A MAIN STORE AND AN AUXILIARY STORE WHICH PUT OUT SIGNALS A AND H, RESPECTIVELY, EACH STORE HAVING INPUT STAGE MEANS; AND (B) MEANS INTERCONNECTING EACH JTH (J=1, 2, 3,...) COUNTER STAGE WITH THE (J-1)TH COUNTER STAGE FOR CAUSING THE OUTPUT SIGNAL H PRODUCED BY THE AUXILIARY STORE OF EACH COUNTER STAGE TO CHANGE ITS STATE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OUTPUT SIGNAL A PRODUCED BY THE MAIN STORE OF THE RESPECTIVE COUNTER STAGE AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TIME INTERVAL BETWEEN THIS OUTPUT SIGNAL A OF SAID MAIN STORE AND THE SUBSEQUENT OUTPUT SIGNAL A OF SAID MAIN STORE, AND FOR CAUSING THE SIGNALS WHICH PRODUCE THE OUTPUTS OF EACH MAIN STORE AND AUXILIARY STORE AND WHICH ARE PUT OUT BY THE INPUT STAGE MEANS OF THE RESPECTIVE MAIN AND AUXILIARY STORES, TO OVERLAP EACH OTHER.