Pulse rate multiplier

Claim 1

A PLURAL ORDER PULSE RATE MULTIPLIER COMPRISING: (A) PRELIMINARY MULTIPLYING MEANS HAVING AN INPUT AND AN OUTPUT AND EFFECTIVE TO MULTIPLY THE PULSE RATE N OF A TRAIN OF INPUT PULSES BY 16/10Y, WHERE Y IS ANY POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE WHOLE NUMBER OR ZERO, TO PRODUCE A TRAIN OF OUTPUT PULSES HAVING AN AVERAGE PULSE RATE OF 16N/10Y; (B) A PLURALITY OF BINARY COUNTERS, ONE FOR EACH DECIMAL ORDER, EACH COUNTER INCLUDING FOUR FLIP FLOP STAGES, EACH STAGE HAVING AN OUTPUT TERMINAL, EACH SAID COUNTER BEING EFFECTIVE TO PRODUCE AT ITS RESPECTIVE OUTPUT TERMINALS TRAINS OF PULSES AT RATES RESPECTIVELY EQUAL TO 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 AND 1/16 OF THE PULSE RATE AT THE INPUT OF THE FIRST STAGE; (C) MEANS CONNECTING THE OUTPUT OF THE PRELIMINARY MULTIPLYING MEANS TO THE INPUT OF THE FIRST STAGE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER BINARY COUNTER; (D) AN OUTPUT OR STAGE HAVING A PLURALITY OF INPUTS AND AN OUTPUT; (E) A PLURALITY OF AND GATES, FOUR FOR EACH BINARY COUNTER, RESPECTIVELY CONNECTING THE FOUR OUTPUT TERMINALS EACH THEREOF TO FOUR INPUTS OF THE OR STAGE; AND (F) A PLURALITY OF DECIMAL MULTIPLICAND INPUT MEANS, ONE FOR EACH BINARY COUNTER, EACH HAVING INPUT MEANS SELECTIVELY OPERABLE TO ANY ONE OF TEN DIFFERENT CONDITIONS, AND EFFECTIVE IN EACH OF NINE OF SAID CONDITIONS TO OPEN DIFFERENT COMBINATION OF SAND AND GATES, SAID COMBINATIONS BEING SELECTABLE BY THE INPUT MEANS TO PRODUCE AT THE OR STAGE OUTPUT A PULSE TRAIN AT A PULSE RATE EQUAL TO THE INPUT PULSE RATE AT THE FIRST STAGE OF THE COUNTER TIMES ANY WHOLE TENTH FROM 0.1 TO 0.9, SAID INPUT MEANS BEING EFFECTIVE IN THE TENTH OF SAID TEN CONDITIONS TO CLOSE ALL THE AND GAES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID COUNTER; AND (G) MEANS FOR SUPPLYING INPUT TRAINS OF PULSES TO THE FIRST STAGE OF THE BINARY COUNTER FOR EACH DECIMAL ORDER BUT THE HIGHEST, SAID MEANS COMPRISING, FOR EACH ORDER: (1) MEANS FOR TAKING AN OUTPUT TRAIN OF PULSES FROM THE SECOND STAGE OF THE NEXT HIGHER ORDER, AT A RATE EQUAL TO 0.25 TIMES THE INPUT RATE OF SAID NEXT HIGHER ORDER; AND (2) MEANS FOR MULTIPLYING THE RATE OF SAID OUTPUT TRAIN OF PULSES TIMES 0.4 TO PRODUCE AN INPUT TRAIN OF PULSES AT A RATE EQUAL TO 0.1 TIMES THE INPUT RATE OF SAID NEXT HIGHER ORDER.