Multiplying device

Claim 1

A PAIR OF MULTIPLYING DEVICES, EACH INCLUDING A SETTABLE MULTIPLYING FACTOR REGISTER HAVING X ON/OFF STAGES, WITH X BEING AN INTEGER, AND ARRANGGED TO BE SET IN A CODE OF RADIX N WHERE N IS MORE THAN 2 AND LESS THAN 2X AND A MULTIPLE BINARY COUNTER HAVING X BISTABLE STAGES AND FEEDBACK CONNECTIONS BETWEEN STAGES FOR CAUSING SAID COUNTER TO COUNT IN A CODE OF THE RADIX N, AND MEANS FOR SUPPLYING INPUT PULSES TO THE COUNTER, MEANS FOR FORMING PULSES IN RESPONSE TO TRANSITIONS OF COUNTER STAGES FROM ONE STABLE CONDITION TO THE OTHER, IN WHICH THE VALUE SET ON EACH STAGE OF THE REGISTER WHEN SET TO ITS ON POSITION IS EQUAL TO THE NUMBER OF PULSE-FORMING TRANSITIONS MADE BY A CORRESPONDING ONE OF THE STAGES OF THE MULTIPLE BINARY COUNTER WHILE SAID COUNTER PASSES THROUGH ONE COMPLETE COUNTING CYCLE, EACH COUNTER STAGE BEING CONNECTED TO AN OUTPUT THROUGH AN INDIVIDUAL GATE, AND THE GATE FOR EACH COUNTER STAGE BEING CONNECTED TO BE OPENED AND CLOSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POSITION OF THE CORRESPONDING REGISTER STAGE, SO THAT THE POSITION OF SAID REGISTER STAGES DETERMINES THOSE GATES THROUGH WHICH THE TRANSITION FORMED PULSES MAY PASS TO AN OUTPUT, SAID MULTIPLYING DEVICES BEING ASSOCIATED WITH A CUTTER AND A CONTROL FOR SAID CUTTER, SAID CONTROL INCLUDING MEANS FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF THE CUTTER PARALLEL WITH ONE AXIS, IN RESPONSE TO THE OUTPUT PULSES FROM ONE DEVICE, MEANS FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF THE CUTTER PARALLEL WITH A PERPENDICULAR AXIS IN RESPONSE TO THE OUTPUT PULSES FROM THE OTHER DEVICE, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE OUTPUT PULSES FROM SAID ONE DEVICE FOR CONTINUALLY RESETTING THE MULTIPLYING FACTOR OF THE OTHER MULTIPLYING DEVICE.