Unattended radio station

• US 3,291,919 A
• Filed: 01/31/1963
• Issued: 12/13/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Glen A. Robitaille
• Original Assignee: Glen A. Robitaille
• Inventors: Robitaille, Glen A.
• Application Number:
  US04/255,264
• Time in Patent Office: 1,412 Days
• US Class Current: 360/72.1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/14 using punched cards or tapes G05B19/128 takes precedence

Claims

1. APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING THE PROGRAMME OF A RADIO STATION COMPRISING A RECORD CONTAINING A SEQUENCE OF CODED INSTRUCTIONS AND ADAPTED TO BE ADVANCED AND READ BY A READER OPERATED EITHER IN SYCHRONISM WITH A TIMER, OR BY SIGNALS FROM SOURCES OF PROGRAMME MATERIAL, MEANS FOR DECODING SAID CODED ELEMENTS OF CONTROL THE OPERATION OF A PLURALITY OF SOURCES OF PROGRAMME MATERIAL, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID SOURCES PROGRAMME MATERIAL CONTAINING PROGRAMME ELEMENTS OF INDETERMINATE LENGTH, SAID DECODED INSTRUCTIONS BEING ADAPTED TO CONTROL THE OPERATION OF SAID SOURCES OF PROGRAMME MATERIAL, EACH OF SAID SOURCES BEING ADAPTED TO GENERATE A STOP SIGNAL ON REACHING THE END OF A PROGRAMME ELEMENT, A TIME STORAGE COMPARATOR ADAPTED TO ACCEPT INPUT PULSES FROM SAID TIMER AND FROM SAID READER AND TO STORE THE NUMBER OF PULSES BY WHICH THE SCANNING OF SAID RECORD DEVIATES FROM SYNCHRONISM WITH SAID TIMER,