Apparatus for registering quantity values of corresponding volume or energy quantities by means of counters in a central station

Apparatus for registering, by means of counters (CR1-CRN) in a central station, quantity values of corresponding volume or energy quantities measured at consumption points distant from the station, each consumption point being allocated a measuring device with a signal transmitter (K1-KN) arranged so that when said volume or energy quantity is measured the signal transmitter is put into an active state for transmitting a signal to an associated counter, said apparatus being characterized by a distributing device (11) stepwise controlled by clock-pulses from a clock-pulse generator (5), the device having a working revolution time equal to or less than the time each signal transmitter is in an active state, and arranged for connection to the signal transmitters (K1-KN) in turn, so that when a signal transmitter in the active state is acquired, the transmitter produces an order signal to a memory device (3), the order signal ordering the memory to transmit a memory signal which is stored in the memory, the memory device being arranged to store the order signal on receiving it and to transmit a memory signal indicating the state of the memory, the memory signal corresponding to the state of the activated signal transmitter at the time when it was last acquired by the distributing device;

• by a gate circuit means (15;
• 44) arranged to receive the order signal from the acquired signal transmitter and the memory signal transmitter by the memory device, and that if the signals indicate that the signal transmitter was in an unactivated state at the previous time that the signal transmitter was acquired by the distributing device and is then in the activated state, to generate a start signal to a measurement pulse generator (7;
• 57) for transmitting a measurement signal, and a stop signal to the distributing device (11) to retain it in its set position (f1-fN) corresponding to the address of the activated signal transmitter;
• and by a switching means (39;
• 49, 50) arranged to connect, in response to an address signal from the distributing device (11) corresponding to the set position of the distributing device, the counter associated with the activated signal transmitter for receiving said measurement signal from the measurement pulse generator (7;
• 57).