Recording device

Claim 1

APPARATUS OPERABLE UNDER THE CONTROL OF DIGITAL SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VALUES OF A PLURALITY OF SEPARATE INPUT VARIABLES FOR PRINTING ON A RECORD MEDIUM THE RESPECTIVE DIGITAL VALUES OF THE INPUT VARIABLES IN ASSIGNED COLUMNS THEREOF AS WELL AS A DISTINCTIVE GRAPHICAL SYMBOL FOR EACH SAID VARIABLE AT A POSITION ON SAID RECORD MEDIUM DETERMINATIVE OF THE VALUE OF THE VARIABLE, COMPRISING A FIRST STORAGE DEVICE STORING THE RESPECTIVE DIGITAL VALUES OF SAID VARIABLES; A TYPEWRITER TYPE OF PRINTING DEVICE HAVING A MOVING CARRIAGE, ELECTRICALLY OPERATED NUMERAL AND SYMBOL PRINTING INSTRUMENTALITIES, AND FUNCTION CONTROLS INCLUDING CARRIAGE SPACE AND TABULATE DEVICES; AN EMITTER ON SAID TYPEWRITER FOR EMITTING SIGNALS WHICH MANIFEST THE DISPLACEMENT OF THE TYPEWRITER CARRIAGE; MEANS UNDER CONTROL OF SAID FIRST STORAGE DEVICE AND SAID EMITTER FOR CONTROLLING THE SEQUENTIAL OPERATION OF SAID NUMERAL PRINTING INSTRUMENTALITIES AND SAID FUNCTION CONTROLS TO PRINT THE RESPECTIVE DIGITAL VALUES OF SAID INPUT VARIABLES IN PREDETERMINED COLUMNS ON SAID RECORD MEDIUM; A SECOND STORAGE DEVICE; MEANS UNDER CONTROL SAID FIRST STORAGE DEVICE AND SAID EMITTER FOR ENTERING THE DIGITAL VALUES STORED IN SAID FIRST STORAGE DEVICE IN SAID SECOND STORAGE DEVICE; AND MEANS UNDER CONTROL OF SAID EMITTER AND SAID SECOND STORAGE DEVICE IN ASCENDING ORDER OF STORED IN SAID SECOND STORAGE DEVICE IN ASCENDING ORDER OF MAGNITUDE AND CONTROLLING THE CARRIAGE TABULATING AND SPACING CONTROLS AS WELL AS THE SYMBOL PRINTING INSTRUMENTALITIES TO PRINT THE GRAPHICAL SYMBOLS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RESPECTIVE VARIABLES AT POSITIONS ON SAID RECORD MEDIUM MANIFESTIVE OF THE VALUES THEREOF.