Multiphase clock control system for machine tools

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A NUMERICAL MACHINE TOOL CONTROL SYSTEM COMPRISING A DYNAMIC BINARY SERIAL STORAGE REGISTER, A MULTIPHASE INTERATIVE CLOCK SYSTEM HAVING AT LEAST TWO PULSE OUTPUTS IN SEPARATE PHASES, MENS FOR GENERATING BINARY POSITION COMMAND DATA IN BINARY WORD FORM FOR AT LEAST ONE POSITION AXIS IN RESPONSE TO SUCCESSIVE PULSES OF ONE OF THE CLOCK PHASES, MEANS FOR WRITING THE COMMON WORD BITS IN SAID REGISTER DURING SUCCESSIVE PULSES OF ANOTHER CLOCK PHASE AND DURING AN INTERATION, MEANS FOR RECIRCULATING THE COMMAND WORD IN SAID REGISTER DURING SUCCESSIVE ITERATIONS, MEANS FOR GENERATING FEEDBACK POSITION DATA FOR THE POSITION AXIS IN ALGEBRAICALLY UPDATED WORD FORM AND IN RESPONSE TO SUCCESSIVE PULSES OF ONE OF THE CLOCK PHASES, MEANS FOR REPEATEDLY WRITING THE FEEDBACK POSITION WORD BITS IN SAID REGISTER WITHIN SUCCESSIVE ITERATIONS AND DURING SUCCESSIVE PULSES OF A CLOCK PHASE DIFFERENT FROM SAID OTHER CLOCK PHASE AND DIFFERENT FROM THE CLOCK PHASE USED FOR SAID FEEDBACK GENERATING MEANS, AND MEANS FOR COMPARING CORRESPONDING BITS OF THE COMMAND AND FEEDBACK POSITION WORDS IN A COMMON PHASE TIME.