VIBRATORY RECORDING APPARATUS

• US 3,383,696 A
• Filed: 07/13/1966
• Issued: 05/14/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fichter Manfred
• Original Assignee: Fichter Manfred
• Inventors: FICHTER MANFRED
• Application Number:
  US04/564,800
• Time in Patent Office: 671 Days
• US Class Current: 346/7
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 1/125 with recording discs
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/12 in graphical form

Claims

1. A RECORDING INSTRUMENT FOR A VEHICLE, COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, VIBRATORY DRIVE MEANS;

FIRST RECORDING MEANS CONNECTED TO AND OSCILLATED BY SAID DRIVE MEANS FOR MAKING A FIRST RECORDING ON A MOVING RECORD CARRIER IN THE FORM OF A ZIG-ZAG LINE;

SECOND RECORDING MEANS FOR MAKING A SECOND RECORDING ON THE RECORD CARRIER;

SPEED RESPONSIVE MEANS CONTROLLING SAID SECOND RECORDING MEANS TO RECORD SPEED VARIATIONS, SAID SECOND RECORDING MEANS MOVING BETWEEN SPEED RECORDING POSITIONS DURING MOVEMENT OF THE VEHICLE, AND BEING IN A ZERO POSITION WHEN THE VEHICLE IS STOPPED, SAID SECOND RECORDING MEANS IN SAID ZERO POSITION DISCONNECTING SAID FIRST RECORDING MEANS FROM SAID VIBRATORY DRIVE MEANS;

AND COUPLING MEANS FOR CONNECTING SAID VIBRATING DRIVE MEANS WITH SAID SECOND RECORDING MEANS ONLY IN SAID ZERO POSITION SO THAT SAID SECOND RECORDING IS A ZIG-ZAG LINE ONLY WHEN SAID VIBRATORY DRIVE MEANS IS OPERATED IN SAID ZERO POSITION WHILE THE VEHICLE IS STOPPED, AND SAID FIRST RECORDING IS A ZIG-ZAG LINE ONLY WHILE SAID SECOND RECORDING MEANS IS IN A SPEED RECORDING POSITION AND THE VEHICLE HAS BEEN STARTED, AND NONE OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND RECORDING IS A ZIG-ZAG LINE WHEN SAID VIBRATORY DRIVE MEANS IS NOT OPERATED IN SAID ZERO POSITION OF SAID SECOND RECORDING MEANS.