Digital remote position indicator

Claim 1

AN INDICATING MECHANISM OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED COMPRISING A DISPLAY COUNTER; A SENSING UNIT, MEANS BY WHICH SAID SENSING UNIT IS ADAPTED TO BE COUPLED TO AN ELEMENT THE VARYING POSITION OF WHICH IS TO BE MEASURED AND BY WHICH THE CONDITION OF SAID SENSING UNIT IS VARIED IN ACCORDANCE WITH VARYING POSITIONS OF SAID ELEMENT; A MAGNETIC SHIFT REGISTER OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID SENSING UNIT; A PULSE GENERATOR BY WHICH SET PULSES AND DRIVE PULSES ARE GENERATED AT A PREDETERMINED FREQUENCY; AN INHIBITOR GATE THROUGH WHICH DRIVE PULSES ARE ADAPTED TO BE IMPARTED TO SAID DISPLAY COUNTER, EACH DRIVE PULSE IMPARTED TO SAID DISPLAY COUNTER BEING OPERATIVE TO ADVANCE SAID COUNTER ONE INCREMENT; AN "AND" GATE THROUGH WHICH SET PULSES ARE ADAPTED TO BE IMPARTED TO SAID MAGNETIC SHIFT REGISTER; MEANS THROUGH WHICH SAID DRIVE PULSES ARE ALSO IMPARTED TO SAID MAGNETIC SHIFT REGISTER; SAID DRIVE PULSES IMPARTED TO SAID MAGNETIC SHIFT REGISTER BEING OPERATIVE TO SEQUENTIALLY ADVANCE SET SIGNALS THROUGH SAID SHIFT REGISTER; SAID "AND" GATE BEING OPERATIVE TO PROHIBIT THE IMPARTING OF A NEW SET PULSE TO SAID SHIFT REGISTER UNTIL A PREVIOUSLY IMPARTED SET PULSE HAS BEEN CLEARED OUT OF SAID SHIFT REGISTER; SAID INHIBITOR GATE BEING OPERATIVE TO PERMIT OR PROHIBIT THE IMPARTING OF DRIVE PULSES TO SAID DISPLAY COUNTER; AND MEANS BY WHICH SAID SET PULSES ARE OPERATIVE THROUGH SAID SHIFT REGISTER TO CAUSE SAID SENSING UNIT, UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS THEREOF IN ACCORDANCE WITH ELEMENT POSITION, TO IMPART AN INHIBIT SIGNAL TO SAID INHIBITOR GATE TO STOP THE FURTHER IMPARTING OF DRIVE PULSES TO SAID COUNTER.