Abstract: The present invention relates to a programmer control device comprising a rotary cam block capable of being driven in rotation step by step by an advancing cam actuating an oscillating pawl carrier.The control device possesses means of blocking and releasing the action of the pawl, comprising a blocking lever 50' interacting with means capable of rocking the said blocking lever between two angular positions during each to-and-fro movement of the advancing pawl. In the first position, a part 51' of the blocking lever is located in the path of a slope 55 of the pawl 21, so as to prevent the action of the latter. In the second position, the part 51' is not located in the path of the pawl 21, so as to permit the action of the latter.

Abstract: This programmer control device comprises a programme-cam unit and a reversing cam unit disposed coaxially and driven for step by step rotation by rocking pawls, notably a pawl cooperating with concentric sets of teeth. The beak of this pawl comprises a stud engaging a slot formed in the first portion of a movable deceleration element having its second portion connected to the first portion by a spring and provided with an extension adapted to be locked in its forward or operative position by the movable core of an electromagnet. The slot formed in the first portion is so inclined that upon each backward movement of the pawl the fall of the beak of this pawl behind each tooth is damped out by the stud in sliding contact with the side of the slot, so as to carry along the deceleration element which may be of the frictional contact type.