Race track betting data handling system

Claim 1

IN A DATA HANDLING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFYING AND PRECESSING INFORMATION ITEMS OF PRESELECTED AMOUNTS AND INCLUDING, AN INPUT CHECK UNIT, AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF SEQUENTIALLY OPERATIVE GATES AND PULSE GENERATING MEANS FOR ROUTING THE ITEMS OF INFORMATION AS CODED PULSES TO APPROPRIATE STORING DEVICES, A PLURALITY OF COUNT REGISTERING AND STORING CIRCUITS EACH ARRANGED TO REGISTER AND STORE A COUNT OF MORE THAN ONE OF SAID ITEMS AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID PULSES FOR REGISTERING AND STORING EACH COUNT OF SAID ITEMS; A NUMBER OF POSITIONS FROM WHICH A PLURALITY OF SAID ITEMS ARE REGISTERED IN SAID CIRCUITS AND, AN ELECTRONIC SCANNER, MEANS OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF SAID POSITIONS AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID SCANNER TO EMIT A SIGNAL IDENTIFYING ONE OF SAID AMOUNTS, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID SIGNAL AND SAID PULSES TO SELECT AT LEAST ONE OF SAID COUNT CIRCUITS TO RECEIVE SAID PULSES AND, VERIFIER MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID SIGNAL, SAID VERTIFIER MEANS INCLUDING, CONTROL COUNT CIRCUITS ARRANGED TO REGISTER AND STORE FOR VERIFICATION THE COUNTS RECEIVED AT EACH DIGITAL POSITION OF THE COUNT REGISTERING AND STORING CIRCUITS REPRESENTING ONE OF SAID AMOUNTS AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID PULSES FOR REGISTERING AND STORING SAID COUNT, SAID CONTROL COUNT CIRCUIT BEING ARRANGED TO PROVIDE AN OUTPUT VOLTAGE ON ONE OF A NUMBER OF TERMINALS EACH CORRESPONDING TO ONE AMOUNT THAT CAN BE SELECTED, A SET OF AMOUNT TERMINALS, EACH REPRESENTING AN AMOUNT WHICH MAY BE SELECTED, SAID SET OF TERMINALS HAVING A VOLTAGE SIGNAL ON ONLY ONE TERMINAL CORRESPONDING TO THE SELECTED AMOUNT, FIRST LOGIC CIRCUIT MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE VOLTAGE FROM THE CONTROL COUNTER CIRCUIT OUTPUT TERMINALS AND THE VOLTAGE AT ONE OF SAID AMOUNT TERMINALS FOR DELIVERING A SIGNAL TO AN "AND" CIRCUIT WHEN A VOLTAGE IS PRESENT ON CORRESPONDING AMOUNT TERMINALS IN BOTH SETS OF TERMINALS, SECOND LOGIC CIRCUITS MEANS INCLUDING AN "AND" CIRCUIT RESPONSIVE TO THE SAID SIGNAL AND THE SIGNALS FROM AT LEAST ONE OTHER SOURCE TO DELIVER AN OUTPUT SIGNAL FROM THE VERIFIER IF ALL PRESCRIBED SIGNALS ARE PRESENT, THIRD LOGIC CIRCUIT MEANS TO PROVIDE A WARNING SIGNAL, IF THE CONTROL COUNTER OUTPUT VOLTAGE IS PRESENT ON A TERMINAL OTHER THAN THE ONE CORRESPONDING TO THE SELECTED AMOUNT, OR IF ALL PRESCRIBED VOLTAGES ARE NOT PRESENT AT SAID "AND" CIRCUIT OF SAID SECOND LOGIC CIRCUIT MEANS.