Combined electrical and mechanical accounting device including selectively accessible magnetic storage means

Claim 1

IN A COMBINED ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ACCOUNTING DEVICE HAVING A TRAVELING CARRIAGE MOVABLE TO A PLURALITY OF STOP POSITIONS, PROGRAMMABLE MEANS PROVIDED AT A PLURALITY OF SAID STOP POSITIONS FOR DETERMINING BOTH THE MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL OPERATIONS TO BE PERFORMED THEREAT, MEANS FOR ESTABLISHING A STANDARD MECHANICAL CYCLE WHICH IS PERFORMED AT EACH STOP POSITION, MAGNETIC STORAGE MEANS FOR STORING DATA MANIFESTATIONS, A KEYBOARD MANUALLY SETTABLE TO PREDETERMINED DATA MANIFESTATIONS, MOVABLE ACTUATOR MEANS HAVING A PLURALITY OF POSITIONS REPRESENTING DATA MANIFESTATIONS, MEANS OPERABLE IN RESPONSE TO THE INITIATION OF A MECHANICAL CYCLE TO SELECTIVELY SET SAID MOVABLE ACTUATOR MEANS DURING A FIRST PORTION OF EACH CYCLE TO CORRESPOND TO DATA MANIFESTATIONS FROM EITHER SAID MAGNETIC STORAGE MEANS OR SAID KEYBOARD, MEANS INITIABLE DURING A LATER PORTION OF SAID CYCLE AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID PROGRAMMABLE MEANS FOR PROCESSING THE DATA MANIFESTATIONS SET UP IN SAID MOVABLE ACTUATOR MEANS DURING SAID FIRST PORTION OF THE CYCLE WITH SELECTIVE DATA MANIFESTATIONS DERIVED FROM SAID MAGNETIC STORAGE MEANS, AND MEANS CAPABLE OF RESETTING SAID MOVABLE ACTUATOR MEANS AND OF STORING THE RESULTS OF SAID PROCESSING MEANS BACK INTO SAID MAGNETIC STORAGE MEANSA PRIOR TO INITIATION OF ANOTHER CYCLE.