Calculating apparatus for price and volume indicators

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL RING-TYPE RECIRCULATING COUNTERS EACH HAVING THEREIN A POSITION CORRESPONDING TO A FULL COUNTING CYCLE; EACH INDIVIDUAL COUNTER HAVING A PLURALITY OF OUTPUT CONNECTIONS COUPLED DIRECTLY TO INDIVIDUAL STAGES IN THE CORRESPONDING COUNTER, THE OUTPUT CONNECTIONS THUS PROVIDING INDIVIDUAL OUTPUT PULSES FROM THE SEVERAL STAGES IN THE RESPECTIVE COUNTERS; CONNECTIONS FROM THE SAID POSITION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL COUNTER SAVE THE LAST TO THE INPUT OF THE NEXT SUCCEEDING COUNTER, THEREBY TO SEQUENTIALLY STAGE THE COUNTERS SO THAT EACH INDIVIDUAL COUNTER SAVE THE LAST PROVIDERS AN INPUT ACTUATING PULSE TO ITS SUCCEEDING COUNTER ONLY UPON COMPLETION OF A FULL COUNTING CYCLE; MEANS PROVIDING INPUT ACTUATING PULSES TO ONLY THE FIRST OF SAID COUNTERS, A SINGLE COMMON OUTPUT TERMINAL, AND INDIVIDUAL SWITCHING MEANS COMPRISING GATES AND RING COUNTERS CONTROLLING THE STATES OF SAID GATES, SAID INDIVIDUAL SWITCHING MEANS BEING SINGLY ASSOCIATED WITH EACH RESPECTIVE ONE OF THE FIRST-MENTIONED COUNTERS AND OPERATING TO SIMULTANEOUSLY CONNECT SELECTIVELY TO SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL A PLURALITY OF SAID OUTPUT CONNECTIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL FIRST-MENTIONED COUNTERS.