Data pulse combining system employing scanner to sequentially gate plural memory circuits each having automatic reset means

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AN ELECTRONIC PULSE COMBINING APPARATUS FOR COMBINING A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL ELECTRICAL PULSE TRAINS FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES INTO A SINGLE SERIES OF TIME SPACED PULSES, COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF CHANNELS ONE FOR EACH PULSE TRAIN AND EACH OF WHICH COMPRISES AN ELECTRONIC STORAGE MEANS HAVING A SET ELEMENT AND A RESET ELEMENT AND AN OUTPUT ELEMENT, SAID SET ELEMENT BEING CONNECTED TO A RELATED PULSE SOURCE AND CHANGING THE SIGNAL AT THE OUTPUT ELEMENT IN RESPONSE TO AN INPUT PULSE, A SCANNING UNIT HAVING A PLURALITY OF OUTPUT MEANS ONE FOR EACH CHANNEL AND MEANS ESTABLISHING SIMILAR INTERROGATION SIGNALS AT SAID OUTPUT MEANS, SAID INTERROGATION SIGNALS BEING SEQUENTIALLY AND CYCLICALLY ESTABLISHED AT THE OUTPUT MEANS, A SUMMING APPARATUS HAVING A PLURALITY OF INPUT ELEMENTS ONE FOR EACH CHANNEL, AND TRANSFER MEANS IN EACH CHANNEL HAVING AN INPUT MEANS CONNECTED TO THE STORAGE MEANS AND THE SCANNING UNIT AND AN OUTPUT MEANS CONNECTED TO THE SUMMING APPARATUS AND TO THE STORAGE MEANS AND RESPONSIVE TO A SIGNAL FROM THE SCANNING UNIT IN THE PRESENCE OF A SIGNAL FROM THE STORAGE MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL FROM THE TRANSFER MEANS TO THE SUMMING APPARATUS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL TO THE RESET ELEMENT OF THE STORAGE MEANS TO RESET THE STORAGE MEANS.