Multiple shift register buffer store

Claim 1

IN A DATA HANDLING SYSTEM, A MULTIPLE SHIFT REGISTER BUFFER STORE FOR BINARY DATA RECEIVED FORM A GIVEN PLURALITY OF SEPARATE INPUTS MEANS AND FOR SUPPLYING STORED DATA TO UTILIZATION MEANS ON COMMAND THEREFROM, SAID BUFFER STORE COMPRISING A CLOCK PULSE GENERATOR FOR GENERATING CLOCK PULSES AT A PREDETERMINED REPETITION RATE; A CYCLICALLYOPERATED PATTERN GENERATOR COUPLED TO SAID CLOCK PULSE GENERATOR AND HAVING SEPARATE OUTPUT CONDUCTORS CORRESPONDING RESPECTIVELY TO EACH OF SAID GIVEN PLURALITY OF INPUTS MEANS FOR PRODUCING A SEPARATE MUTUALLY-EXCLUSIVELY OCCURRING CELL PULSE ON EACH OF SAID OUTPUT CONDUCTORS IN RESPONSE TO EACH SUCCESSIVE GROUP OF A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF SUCCESSIVE CLOCK PULSES, WHEREBY SAID SUCCESSIVE GROUPS FORM A TIME FRAME COMPOSED OF A PLURALITY OF TIME INTERVALS EQUAL IN NUMBER TO SAID PREDETERMINED NUMBER AND EACH TIME INTERVAL HAS A DURATION EQUAL TO A CLOCK PULSE PERIOD, EACH OF SAID CELL PULSES HAVING A DURATION EQUAL TO SOME PLURAL INTEGRAL NUMBER GREATER THAN A GIVEN INTEGRAL NUMBER OF SUCCESSIVE TIME INTERVALS; STORAGE MEANS HAVING SEPARATE POSITIONS EQUAL IN NUMBER TO SAID PREDETERMINED NUMBER, EACH POSITION CORRESPONDING TO A DIFFERENT ONE OF SAID TIME INTERVALS AND CAPABLE OF STORING THE BINARY VALUE OF A BIT, WHEREBY SAID STORAGE MEANS IN DIVIDED INTO SEPARATE CELLS EACH OF WHICH IS COMPOSED OF THOSE ADJACENT POSITIONS CORRESPONDING TO THOSE TIME INTERVALS INCLUDED WITHIN EACH RESPECTIVE CELL PULSE AND EACH CELL OF SAID STORAGE MEANS CORRESPONDS TO A DIFFERENT ONE OF SAID INPUT MEANS; INPUT CONTROL MEANS COU-