Sequential annunciator system

Claim 1

MEANS FOR INDICATING THE ORDER IN WHICH A GROUP OF VARIABLES REACH A GIVEN MONITORED CONDITION COMPRISING: A CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR EACH VARIABLE COMPRISING VARIABLE RESPONSIVE MEANS WHICH MEANS HAS A FIRST CONDITION WHEN THE ASSOCIATED VARIABLE REACHES A GIVEN VALUE TO BE MONITORED, AND ORDER INDICATING MEANS HAVING A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT OPERATING STATES CORRESPONDING WITH VARIOUS ORDER NUMBERS AND RESPONSIVE TO THE OPERATION OF THE ASSOCIATED VARIABLE RESPONSIVE MEANS TO SAID FIRST CONDITION BY LOCKING IN AN OPERATING STATE TO WHICH IT HAS BEEN OPERATED; COUNTER AND ORDER CONTROL MEANS IN COMMON WITH ALL THE VARIABLES FOR OPERATING SAID ORDER INDICATING MEANS OF A CONTROL CIRCUIT WHOSE VARIABLE RESPONSIVE MEANS HAS JUST BEEN OPERATED TO SAID FIRST CONDITION TO AN OPERATING STATE CORRESPONDING TO THE COUNT ACCUMULATED IN THE COUNTER AND ORDER CONTROL MEANS AND RESPONSIVE TO THE OPERATION OF ANY VARIABLE RESPONSIVE MEANS TO SAID FIRST CONDITION BY INCREASING THE COUNT ACCUMULATED BY ONE UNIT; AND MANUAL RESET MEANS FOR RESETTING SAID COUNTER AND ORDER CONTROL MEANS TO THE COUNT OF ONE, TO CONDITION THE STILL UNOPERATED ORDER INDICATING MEANS TO INDICATE THE ORDER IN WHICH A NEW SERIES OF VARIABLES REACH THEIR MONITORED VALUES, AND FOR CANCELLATING THE ORDER INDICATION IN THE PREVIOUSLY OPERATED ORDER INDICATING MEANS UNTIL THE ASSOCIATED VARIABLES RETURN TO NORMAL AND THEN BECOME ABNORMAL AGAIN.