Shifting apparatus

Claim 1

IN A MAGNETIC SHIFTING APPARATUS FOR SHIFTING AN "M" BINARY DIGIT NUMBER BY A DESIRED NUMBER OF PLACES BETWEEN "O" AND "N" THE COMBINATION OF A PLURALITY OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS EACH HAVING TWO STATES OF SATURATION, SAID ELEMENTS BEING ARRAYED IN "N" ROWS AND "M" COLUMNS, A PLURALITY OF "N" ROW COILS EACH CORRESPONDING TO A DIFFERENT ONE OF SAID PLACES, EACH SAID ROW OF ELEMENTS BEING LINKED BY A DIFFERENT ROW COIL, A PLURALITY OF "M" COLUMN COILS EACH CORRESPONDING TO A SEPARATE DIGIT OF SAID NUMBER, EACH SAID COLUMN OF ELEMENTS BEING LINKED BY A DIFFERENT COLUMN COIL, A PLURALITY OF "N" DIAGONAL SENSING WINDINGS, SAID SENSING WINDINGS, BEGINNING AT ONE CORNER OF SAID ARRAY, EACH LINKING A DIFFERENT GROUP OF SAID ELEMENTS WITH THE LAST SAID GROUP INCLUDING ONLY A SINGLE ELEMENT, A BIAS WINDING LINKING ALL SAID ELEMENTS, MEANS FOR APPLYING A BIAS CURRENT TO SAID BIAS WINDING, MEANS FOR APPLYING SIGNALS TO ACTIVATE THOSE ONES OF SAID COLUMN COILS WHICH CORRESPOND TO BINARY "1" DIGITS IN SAID NUMBER AND NOT APPLYING SIGNALS TO THOSE ONES OF THE COLUMN COILS CORRESPONDING TO BINARY "0" DIGITS IN SAID NUMBER, AND MEANS FOR ACTIVATING THE ONE OF SAID ROW COILS CORRESPONDING TO THE NUMBER OF PLACES BY WHICH THE NUMBER IS TO BE SHIFTED CONCURRENTLY WITH SAID COLUMN SIGNALS SAID ELEMENTS LINKED BY SAID ACTIVATED COLUMN COILS AND SAID ONE ROW COIL INDUCING SIGNALS IN THE SENSING WINDINGS RESPECTIVELY COUPLED THERETO.