Sequence indicating monitoring system

Claim 1

A VARIABLE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR INDICATING THE ORDER IN WHICH A NUMBER OF VARIABLES BECOME ABNORMAL, SAID SYSTEM COMPRISING: RESPECTIVE CONTROL MEANS WHICH RESPOND TO THE NORMAL AND ABNORMAL CONDITIONS OF RESPECTIVE VARIABLES, EACH OF SAID CONTROL MEANS HAVING AN ABNORMAL VARIABLE INDICATING STATE WHEN THE ASSOCIATED VARIBLE BECOMES ABNORMAL AND A NORMAL VARIABLE INDICATING STATE WHEN THE ASSOCIATED VARIABLE IS NORMAL, STORAGE MEANS FOR RECORDING THE ORDER IN WHICH THE VARIABLES GO ABNORMAL AND INCLUDING SUCCESSIVE STORAGE POSITIONS IN WHICH INFORMATION ON THE IDENTITY AND TIMING INFORMATION OF ABNORMAL VARIABLES MAY BE RECORDED, INTERROGATION MEANS FOR SEQUENTIALLY INTERROGATING THE CONTROL MEANS IN A PREDETERMINED ORDER AND FOR STORING IN SUCCESSIVE POSITIONS OF SAID STORAGE MEANS THE IDENTITY OF CONTROL MEANS AS THEY ARE OPERATED TO THEIR ABNORMAL VARIABLE INDICATING STATES, PRINT-OUT MEANS FOR PRINTING INFORMATION IN SAID STORAGE IN THE ORDER IN WHICH SUCH INFORMATION IS STORED IN SUCCESSIVE POSITIONS OF SAID STORAGE MEANS, MEANS FOR CLEARING SAID STORAGE MEANS WHEN ALL THE VARIABLE CONDITION INFORMATION IN SAID STORAGE MEANS HAS BEEN FED TO SAID PRINTOUT MEANS, TIMING MEANS WHICH IS RESET TO ZERO PRIOR TO THE FEEDING OF A NEW SEQUENCE OF INFORMATION TO SAID STORAGE MEANS AND WHICH STARTS COUNTING TIME FROM ZERO WHEN THE INFORMATION IS FED TO THE FIRST POSITION OF SAID STORAGE MEANS, MEANS FOR STORING IN EACH STORAGE POSITION OF SAID STORAGE MEANS THE TIMING INFORMATION INDICATED BY SAID TIMING MEANS AT THE TIME THE VARIABLE IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IS FED TO THE STORAGE POSITION, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE CLEARING OF SAID STORAGE MEANS FOR RESETTING SAID TIMING MEANS TO ZERO.