DE2000957A1 - Calendar of several thousand years - Google Patents

Description

Domenico DE FILIPPO SARNO / ITALY |

Multi-millennial calendar

The invention relates to the formation of a calendar of several thousand years from a frame with one or more scales Time segment characters and a plurality of slides displaceable in this frame relative to the scales, which also bear one or more scales with further time segment symbols.

The well-known "perpetual ¹¹ calendars" are so named because they are able to display data for a considerable number of years. These perpetual calendars, however, require certain calculations to be read which are not always easy and simple to carry out. Furthermore, no information can be given in such calendars for a whole month or a whole year, but only for one day of the week, which corresponds to a very specific date.

The purpose of the invention is to overcome this disadvantage of the previously known, so-called Avoid perpetual calendar.

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Such a calendar of the type mentioned at the beginning with a plurality of scales showing the days of the month, the centuries, the decades and the one of the years as well as the days of the week and the months of the year, is characterized according to the invention by that each scale contains divisions that are geometrically the same among themselves and those of the other scales, and that the Calendar starts on March 1st and ends on February 28th or 29th has the ending ideal year as the basis, with each character on its own scale by as many divisions as the chronologically preceding one remotely, as days of the week lie between the beginning of the two periods of time, for which the characters themselves apply.

In the accompanying drawings, there are exemplary embodiments of the calendar according to the invention shown in detail, wherein demonstrate:

1: a perspective view of a frame,

Fig. 2, 3 and 4: a view of the scales with the days of the month, the months, the centuries and the decades,

2a: a perspective view of a slide with the

Scale of days of the month,

Fig. 5: a scale with the numbers for a period of 20 years,

6: a perspective view of a first modification of the calendar according to the invention,

Fig. 7-11: Scales with the days of the week, the days of the month, the months, the centuries and the decades as well as the years of the year,

12, 12a show a front, rear and side view in section of a second embodiment of the calendar according to the invention,

13, 13a, in section, a front, rear and side view of the base

and 13b:,.,

disc,

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14, 14a show a front, rear and side view in section of a

first rotatable on the disc element, Fig. 15, 15a a front, back and side view in section of a second element rotatable on the disc,

16,16a show a front, rear and side view in the. Cut one

and 16b:,. "_ Y_,." ,,, _,

third element rotatable on the disc,

Fig. 17 and front and rear perspective views of a

further embodiment of the invention Calendar,

Fig. 20 and front and rear perspective views of a

first slide adjustable in the frame,

19 and front and rear perspective views of a

second slide adjustable in the frame,

21: a perspective view of one in the first slide

adjustable slide,

24 and a partial perspective view of the front and rear

side of the frame and the first, movable therein Slide and

26: a perspective view of a slide which can be displaced in the frame. Ä

The calendar according to the invention is in its most perfect form each valid for one year, i.e. that the calendar can be used for the respective year after a setting described below.

In other embodiments, however, it can only be used for a monthly period Validity can be set so that it can then be renewed from month to month needs to be set up. These "monthly" embodiments are presented below for the sake of clarity before the "annual" embodiment described.

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According to Fig. 1, the inventive calendar in a first "monthly" Ausftthrungsform a frame 101 in the form of a panel, which on its non-visible side with the rails 102, 103 and 104 is provided.

This frame 101 also has a horizontal one on its upper side Recess 105, which is approximately in the middle of the top. This recess 105 has inscriptions on the horizontal edge Periods of time, to which the time of the scales related to them refer.

These labels can be as shown in the following table can be chosen roughly as follows:

GS - days of the week GM = Days of the month M = months S = Centuries D β Decades UA = Year one

As can also be seen from FIG. 1, the frame 101 includes two stationary ones Scales 106 and 107 for the days of the week or the individual years.

In detail, the scale 106 consists of a seven-line column. In Each of these lines has a character for a day of the week, beginning with Monday, similar to the one listed below Table is shown:

LU s Monday 0 0 9 8 3 0 / GT Thursday MA β Tuesday VE Friday ME s Wednesday SA Saturday DO Sunday 1 284

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The scale 107 consists of four columns with seven lines each. As can be seen, the scale 107, like the others, can still be read. purifying scales divided into squares. Each of these squares, which one Contains an identifier, a number or a digit can also be referred to below as a "field".

Some of the fields on scale 107 contain a digit while others are blank. These digits represent the unit of the number that indicates a respective year. It should also be pointed out that every Ä

Number appears twice, once with a dot and once without point. The meaning of this point will be explained later, but it should already be pointed out that the point is only an example is used and can be replaced by any other identifier, for example by the color of the number or by a line within the field.

2 and 2a show a first slide 108 with a scale 109. This scale consists of six columns with thirteen lines and has the numbers from 1 to 31 in the fields, which correspond to the days of a month, as well as a reference arrow for the right adjacent Ä

Scale.

The slide 108 also has guides 110 on its underside, which allow the slide to be inserted into the rails 102 of the frame 101, so that the slide can be displaced in the frame 101.

Fig. 3 shows a second slide 111 with a scale 112, which consists of two Columns with thirteen rows. In the fields of this scale 112 characters are entered which correspond to the months of the year and also a reference arrow for the scale on the right.

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The indicators for the corresponding months are shown below Table listed:

GE = January FE = February MR = March AP = April MG = May GI = June

LU = July AG August SE = September OT October NO = November Tue December

Fig. 4 shows the scale of centuries (113) and decades (114), which are arranged on a common slide 115.

In detail, the century scale 113 consists of eight columns, each with thirteen lines in whose fields the numbers from 0 to 30 are entered, which corresponds to the centuries from 0 to 30, i.e. from year 0 to year 3000.

The decade scale 114 has two columns of thirteen each Lines in whose fields digits from 0 to 9 are entered, which indicate the digit of the tens of a number that designates a certain year.

It should be noted that the odd digits of the decade scale 114 are marked with a point, in which case this point can also be replaced by another marking, such as it was mentioned in connection with the year one scale 107.

It should also be noted that the slide 111 and 115 in the same Are designed like the slide 108, so that they are also provided with guides for blinking into the frame 101.

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With this design, the three slides 108, 111 and 115 are in the Guides 102, 103 and 104 of the frame 101 can be displaced with respect to this, so that a mutual adjustment of the different, protruding described scales is made possible.

5 shows a scale 116 with four columns of seven lines each.

The numbers 65 to 87 are listed in the fields of this scale, with the first digit of each number indicates the tens and the second digit the one of the respective year.

This scale 116 can replace that of the year 107, as it is now in the description of the functioning of the inventive Calendar is explained.

6 shows a modified embodiment of the calendar according to the invention, this being a "monthly" calendar. The calendar executed in this way consists of a cylindrical holder 117, which may have a larger diameter on its outer surface at both ends

can. One end of the holder has a scale 118 with the week "

days and the other end a scale 119 with the year ones.

The calendar in this form also consists of one on the holder rotatable sleeve 120, which is arranged next to the scale 118 with the days of the week and which carries a scale 121 with the days of the month. Furthermore is On the holder 117 a second sleeve 124 is rotatably arranged, which lies next to the first sleeve and carries the scale 122 of the months. Furthermore is a third sleeve 125 also rotatably arranged on the holder 117 between the sleeve 124 and the other end with the scale 119 of the year one. This sleeve 125 bears the scales for centuries (123) and decades (126). '

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All mentioned scales, which are on the calendar in cylindrical shape Execution are, are shown in Figs. 7 to 11 individually. Therefor The same applies to what was explained in connection with the design with straight slides.

It should be noted, however, that the scales 121, 12Z, 123 and 126 consist of seven lines instead of thirteen lines as is the case with scales 109, 112, 113 and 114 (Figs. 2-4). The difference is only apparent, however, because the former scales are taken from the latter by simply leaving out the first and last three lines which are identical to the eighth, ninth and tenth or the fourth, fifth and sixth lines.

This shows that a scale, although in its structure of a basic scale is derived, for example the scales in Fig. ß, 9 and 10, is built up by simply joining the last and the first line of two basic scales.

Moving a digit, number or character on a line Any number of fields therefore has no effect on the validity or on the setting of a scale. The only character shifts that have an effect on the construction of a scale are those characters that move along the column.

In Fig. 12b is a section in side view of a second embodiment of the calendar according to the invention with "monthly" validity. Figs. 12 and 12a show a front view and a rear view of this modification, respectively.

This consists of a disc 127 (Fig. 13,13a and 13b), which on the The top bears the 128 days of the month and is marked with a circular sector

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shaped cutout 130.

15, 15a and 15b show a first disk-shaped element 131, which is rotatable about a pin 132 on the disk 127. This element points on the side 133, which faces away from the disk 127 is, a circular bead 134, on the edge of which the scale 135 is applied with the months.

The element 131 also has a radial projection 136 which extends to %

the side facing the disk 127 bears a reference arrow.

A second element 137 is designed as a ring and is shaped like a sector of a circle Bead 134 of the first element 131 is rotatable. This element is shown in Figures 14a and 14b.

This element carries on the side that passes through the cutout 130 of the Disc 127 is visible, the scale 138 with the days of the week, and on the side facing away from it, the scale 139 with the one of the years.

A third element 140 is shown in Figures 16, 16a and 16b. This "

Element is also again disk-shaped and around the mentioned Pin 132 rotatable on disk 127. On the top in the middle is the scale 141 of the centuries, in such a division that the individual fields are arranged on the edge of the disc that the reference arrow 136 of the first, rotatable Element 131 can be adjusted to this. Along part of the The circular arc-shaped outer edge is also the scale 142 of the decades applied.

The diameter of this element 140 is smaller than that of the ring

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shaped element 137, so that the scale 139 of the year one is visible is.

It should be noted that the scales of these last described Embodiment of the calendar according to the invention of the two other designs described above differ only in terms of shape. A transition from one to the other scale forms ρ is possible based on the following considerations:

Each mark on the scale can be repeated on the same scale at a distance of seven fields or at a distance of a number of fields that is a multiple of seven, continuously counted lengthways of the columns.

The respective layers of the scales on the same support or frame are plotted, a scale with respect to another can be altered by shifting, and also the reference arrows can change their place under the advance W reduction on the respective scales that all the changes carried out, are canceled out in their entirety and thus the position of the scale with the days of the month is not changed in relation to the scale with the days of the week, the composition of a year number and the setting of a month, as will be explained later, remain unchanged.

A comparison of FIGS. 7 to 16b also readily results the equivalence between the different scales.

So the scale 121 (Fig. 8) is the same as the scale 128 (Fig. 12). The reference arrow is replaced by window 129. The scale 118 (Fig. 7) is equivalent

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with the scale 138 (Fig. 12) according to the above considerations.

The scale 122 of the months (FIG. 9) is equivalent to the scale 135 (Fig. 15) after the first mentioned consideration and in view of the fact that a character can be shifted along a line, without influencing the structure of a scale. In this way, the two even columns of the scale 122 (FIG. 9) become the only one, which is in the shape of a sector of a circle Column of the scale 135 (Fig. 15).

The scale 123 (Fig. 10) is equivalent to the scale 141 (Fig. 12). "

For scales 126 and 119, with regard to scales 142 and 139, the are equivalent to the former, the same as what is above for the scales 122 and 135 was said.

Description will now be made with reference to Figs of a calendar according to the invention in the embodiment with "annual" validity.

Here, the calendar consists of a table-shaped frame 143, the

is provided on the inside with several guides that can be displaced to accommodate

serve as elements as will be described below.

On top of this frame 143 are ten fields 144 and two Feder 145, which correspond to the twelve months of the year. On the upper horizontal edge of each field 144 or 145, an inscription MA is applied, which indicates the respective month which this Field corresponds. Fields 144 apply to the months from March to December and accordingly comprise fixed scales 146 in five columns and seven lines indicate the days of the week.

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Fields 145 apply to the months of January and February and indicate a window of the same dimensions as fields 145.

The fields 144 are equipped with a window 147, which is on the left is arranged on the scale 146 with the days of the month and whose dimensions correspond to those of a column.

The other side of the frame 143 has a single shape window, which is formed from two adjacent rectangles, the sides of which are parallel to the sides of the frame 143 (Fig. 18).

The rectangle 148 has inscriptions R on its lower edge, which indicates the centuries, the decades and the years, and on its upper horizontal edge the inscription S, which indicates the respective year viewed.

On the left side of the page, the rectangle has a reference arrow for the Centuries scale of the respective year.

The rectangle 149 bears inscriptions T on its lower horizontal edge to indicate the centuries, the decades and the years and on its upper horizontal edge the inscription Z to indicate the year which precedes the respective year under consideration.

20 and 22 show a first, in a guide 151 of the frame displaceable slide 150. This slide 150 is in turn provided with two guides 152 and 157 and with a window 153, which extends over these two guides.

The slide 150 has on its front, corresponding to the front of the frame 143, three scales 154 with the days of the week, as they are listed below with the corresponding days:

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L = Monday V Friday M. = Tuesday CT - Saturday M = Wednesday D. Sunday G Thursday

These scales appear in windows 147 of fields 144 and 145.

On the back of the slide 150 there is arranged the scale 155 for the year one, which is shown enlarged in FIG. 22 outside the slide 150. This scale appears at the rear window 148 of the frame 143, corresponding to the years of the respective % considered

Year.

The scale 155 is taken from the scale 107 (Fig.l) by adding another three lines at the beginning and another three lines at the end, as already described, so that this scale 155 accordingly the scale 107 is equivalent.

The slide 150 also has a reference arrow for the scale of the centuries of the previous year.

In Fig. 21, a second slide 156 is shown, which in the guide 157 of the first slide 150 is displaceable. He wears the scale of the Centuries 158 and the scale of the decades 159 "which appear in the window 149 of the frame 143, corresponding to the centuries and Decades of the year preceding the respective year

It should be noted that these scales are opposite to the scales 113 and 114 (Fig. 4) are reversed from top to bottom by interchanging the first, second, third, etc. lines, respectively.

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A third slide 160 is shown in FIGS. This The slide can be displaced between the frame 143 and the slide 150 and has two scales 161 ft for the months of January on its front side and February, same as scales 146 (Fig. 17), with the exception of the February scale, which has 29 days.

This slide 160 is also formed by two cutouts 163 so that that in connection with the frame 143 two windows 147a are created, whose dimensions are the same as those of a column / similar to the ^ windows 147.

On the back of the slide 160 has the scale 162 of the year, which appears at window 149 of frame 143, corresponding to the year of the year preceding the respective year.

As Fig. 23 shows, this scale is enlarged and compared to of the scale 107 (Fig. 1) constructed in reverse.

A fourth slide 164 is shown in FIG. This fourth The slide is slidable in the guide 165 of the frame 163 and fc carries the scales of the centuries 166 and the decades 167, which are on

Windows 148 appear, corresponding to the centuries and decades of the respective year.

It should be noted here that the scales 166 and 167 correspond to the scales 113 and 114 (Fig. 4) are identical.

It should also be pointed out that the slides 164 (FIG. 26), 160 (Fig. 19 and 23), 156 (Fig. 21) and 150 (Fig. 20 and 22) each with excerpts » 168, 169 (Fig. 23), 170 and 171 (Fig. 22) for their adjustment are provided.

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The practical application of the calendar designed according to the invention in its embodiment with monthly or annual validity happens as follows:

In the embodiment according to FIGS. 1, 2, 3 and 4, the frame

101 inserted slides 108, 111 and 115 proceed as follows:

The slide 115 with the scale 114 is opposite the scale of the years 107 postponed until the digit indicating the decade of the respective

the year under consideration (with or without a point), on the Ä

same line of the digit of the one of the respective year (with or without a point). The scale 113 is automatically adjusted because it is firmly connected to the scale 114.

The slide 111 with the monthly scale 112 is then moved as far as to your reference arrow on the line of the century of the respective year is on scale 113.

The slide 108 is then moved in the scale 109 until their reference arrow on the same line of the month of the respective

Year comes to a standstill. Ä

With these processes, an automatic setting results at the same time of the calendar to read the month of the respective year.

It just needs to be noted that the calendar is based on an ideal year which starts on March 1st and ends on February 28th or 29th, and that the operations described for January and February are to be carried out as if the year were to be considered which precedes the one to which these months belong.

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If you have any doubts about the month of February, which is 28 or Can have 29 days, you can use the calendar described here to determine the day of the week that corresponds to the following March 1st, for example a thursday. Then move on to February and note that the year number for the months of January and February of the year that precedes the year to which these months belong. It follows that the 28th or The 29th of this month falls on a Wednesday. In the first case the February month has 28 days, in the second case 29 days.

An analogous procedure could be used for any other month if there were doubts as to the number of Days of that month. This setting sequence also applies to the two modified embodiments, which are valid monthly to have.

If one considers the validity of the calendar, which - as already mentioned from Years 1 to 3099 applies, restricts it to a few years, for example from 1965 to 1987, is as follows to proceed:

In the first embodiment, which for the sake of simplicity is referred to as straight sliders, the slider 115 and the Scale 107 removed, which is replaced by scale 116 (Fig. 5).

In the first modification with the cylindrical holder, the scales 123, 126 and 119 are also replaced by the scale 116.

In the second variant in disc form, the disc 140 and the projection 136 are removed and a reference arrow on the back the disk 131 is drawn radially outwards in accordance with one of the characters OT, which are applied to the front. Man

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then removes the numbers of the annual sirens from the back of the Ring 137 and replaces this with the columns of the scale 116, which are arranged one below the other, starting with the number 65, which is to be entered in a field with LU on the back and progressing towards the field on the back of which MA stands.

The calendar with straight sliders can also be more compact if a back is also to be used. For this purpose, the scale 107 is the year one on the back the weekday scale is applied and the slide 115 with the scales f

the centuries and the decades (113 and 114 respectively) on the reverse of the calendar arranged by specially provided NuteTn. Further the arrow on the slide 111 of the scale 112 of the months can be made visible in a suitable manner.

Referring to FIGS. 17 and 18 will now be given a description of the practical application of the inventive calendar in its embodiment with annual ⁰ valid.

This embodiment is derived from that with degrees

Sliders, as they are for a version with monthly validity "

has been described. To set the calendar for reading, proceed as follows on the reverse side:

One moves the slide 164 with the scale 166 (Fig. 26) to the Line with the number of the century of the respective year on the arrow carried by the frame 143.

The slide 150 is then moved with the scale 155 (FIG. 22) to the number of the relevant year (with or without a point) on the same line of the decade scale of the respective year (with or without a point).

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Then slide the slide 156 with the scale 158 (FIG. 21) to the line containing the century of the year preceding the respective year is at the height of the arrow which is is mounted on the slide 150.

The slide 160 is then moved with the scale 162 (FIG. 3) to the number of the years of the year preceding the respective year (with or without a point) is on the same line as that of the Decade of the year (with or without a period), whichever Year precedes.

It should be noted that through the first two processes the year of the year under review has been set and, with the two subsequent processes, that of the previous year.

Through these processes was on the front of the invention Calendar automatically the year of the calendar in question Year.

Referring to FIGS. 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, the will now take place Description of the scales that are used in the various versions of the calendar.

Reference is made to the scales shown in the above figures taken, which are considered the basic scales. All other scales are - as already mentioned - derived from these according to principles, which do not change their structure.

The scale 118 with the days of the week is in itself the scale that is used as the "reference scale" can be designated. Each sign of the other scales is on its own scale in relation to the chronological previous characters offset by as many fields along the Columns are counted consecutively as days of any week that fall within the

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There are beginnings of two periods of time, for which the signs themselves are valid. The structure of the scale 121 is the same as that of the days of the month clear.

There is never a free space between a number and the previous one, for it is evident that a day and the chronologically preceding one related to any two consecutive days of the week can be. The distance of 7 fields between the 8th day and the 7th day, the 15th and the 14th, etc. in the numbers in analog Positions is only apparent, as the second column can be placed directly under the first and the third under the second, and so on.

So basically an offset of 7 fields or a multiple of 7 was carried out along the columns, as it was already done above has been described.

The structure of the monthly scale 122, where the indicators Any two months are separated by as many fields as the days of the week between the first day of the first month and the first day of the second month.

It should be noted that if a month has 31 days, between the beginning of this month and that of the following month are 3 days of the week. If, on the other hand, the month has only 30 days, then lie two days of the week in between.

The following table shows some examples based on the year 1969 and the corresponding fields between the signs lie:

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respective month previous month Days of the week fields October September (30) Tuesday-
Wednesday 2 August July (31) Wednesday-Thursday
Friday 3 May April (30) Wednesday -
Thunder 2 June May (31) Friday. -Sams -
day-sunday 3

Taking into account that a character is arbitrary on a line can be moved, it is possible to change the validity of the previous Check table with reference to FIG. 9.

As for the months of January and February, it is worth remembering that to make a monthly calendar of these two months for a given Year, the calendar is to be set to the year which precedes the year to be viewed. This requirement arises due to the fact that the invention Calendar is based on an ideal year starting on March 1st and ending on February 28th or 29th. Between January and the There are three fields in February because January has 31 days.

to set the number of fields that fall between February and March, remember that February 28th or February 29th of a certain year in this calendar is the last day of the year that precedes the year in question, and that the March 1st is the first day of the year under consideration.

In this way, for example, the years 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970 are calculated according to the calendar according to the invention as follows:

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Year ideal year

1967 March 1, 66 - February 28, 67

1968 March 1st, 67-29. February 68

1969 March 1, 68 -28. February 69

1970 March 1, 69 -28. February 70

The days of the week, the respective March 1st and the respective February 1st are:

Early february at the beginning of March Days of the week fields February 1, 1970
Sunday March 1, 1969
Saturday 6th 6th 1st February 1969
Saturday March 1, 1968
Friday 6th 6th 1st February 1968
Thursday March 1, 1967
Wednesday 6th 6th February 1, 1967
Wednesday March 1, 1966
Tuesday 6th 6th

From this it follows that the law found is general is applicable due to the ideal year mentioned.

Whether this is a leap year or not has no influence on this regularity. The extra day A leap year is counted with the scale of the decades and with that of the year scale. It should be noted that if that Decade is given with even digits, the digit of the one of the leap year is 0, 4 or 8, while it is 2 or 6 if the Decade is given with odd digits.

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In particular, it should be noted that one indicating a decade A digit, with or without an identifier (in this case a point), a digit of the one of the year, with or without an identifier is. For example, if one looks at the decade 1970 to 1979, the digits with a point must be taken into account in the scale 119 (Fig. 11), because the decade digit is odd.

It should be emphasized that the digits 2 and 6 are marked with a dot is preceded by an empty space.

Due to the above, the years 1972 and 1976 are leap years, but for the ideal year that is being considered, the additional day, namely February 29, is to be counted against the previous years, that is, the years 1971 and 1975.

The same result is obtained, for example, when looking at the Decade indicated by number 6 on scale 126. It is an even number and there is therefore an empty field on the scale 119 between number 3 and number 4 and between number 7 and number 8, all of which are unmarked.

The same principle applies to the scale 116 (FIG. 5).

This is easily obtained by assigning the even digits to digits without identification of the scale 119 and the odd digits to those marked on this scale. For the scale 123 of the centuries it should be noted that the number 15 appears twice. It should be noted that this number 15 next to the number 8 until October 4, 1582 and the one next to the number Il applies from October 15, 1582. This is related to the fact that the Gregorian calendar was introduced to fix the bug of the previous Julian calendar, the days of October 5th

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were turned off by October 14, 1582.

The numbers from 1 to 15, which refer to the Julian calendar, show a continuous sequence with no empty fields, while the numbers 15 to 30 refer to the Gregorian Obtaining a calendar, follow this rule, however, when moving from one number to another, a field is skipped, unless for a number that is a multiple of four and for the previous one, occupying two consecutive spaces.

In many countries the Gregorian calendar was only introduced after 1582, e.g. in Great Britain in 1751, in the Soviet Union in 1918, Greece in 1923. If the calendar according to the invention is used in one of these countries the scale 123 of the centuries is to be changed slightly in a completely plausible manner. The first part of this is about extend the number 15 beyond the rule of the Julian period up to the number representing the century, in which the reform was introduced. In the second part are the

Turn off numbers from 15 to the one that precedes the number j

in which century the introduction of the Gregorian calendar took place.

If desired, the applicable calendar period To do this, it is sufficient to cancel the numbers in the scale of the centuries which correspond to the centuries which do not interested. On the other hand, if the validity period is set via the If the number 30 is to be obsolete beyond the century, the numbers must be inserted in the scale of the centuries who are interested in the number 30, whereby the rule of the Gregorian period must be followed. It is obvious, that a year which is valid from the date of the inven-

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according to the calendar is contained, can consist of digits, the number of which can vary between 1 and 4. The last digit on the right the one of the years, the penultimate one the decade and the number formed from the remaining digits the century. If the year is only made up of two digits, the century is zero. If it consists of only one digit, it is both the number of centuries as well as the digit of the decade zero.

It should also be noted that if the same time the number of WSS centuries, the figure of decades and that of the year -

one is zero, it must be the year 1 BC. In fact one does not go up from the year 1 before Christ the year 0 over, which did not exist, but to the year 1 after Christ.

The advantages which are given when using the calendar according to the invention are obvious. Due to the special structure of the scales and the elements that carry them, a few shifts are sufficient to automatically create a monthly or yearly calendar. All tables, handling of m indicators and all mental arithmetic become superfluous because everything is in the

Calendar itself is included.

In addition, it should be noted that the calendar according to the invention is expediently reduced or enlarged can be adapted to any object. For example, the calendar in the cylinder shape described, e.g. the shaft one. Be a pencil. It can also be used as an element for a desk set. .

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It is also essential that · the calendar according to the invention in. '.';%. ^

any suitable material can be made, depending on the;

Claims that are made here, for example from Hole, plastic, cardboard, metal, etc. 009830/1284

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Claims (13)

PATENT CLAIMS / IJ Calendar of several thousand years from a frame with one or more scales with time segment characters and a plurality of sliders which can be moved in this frame relative to the scales and which also have one or more scales with further time segment characters, characterized in that each scale contains subdivisions that are geometrically identical to each other and to those of the other scales, and that the calendar is based on an ideal year beginning on March 1st and ending on February 28th or 29th, where ύ each character on its own scale from the chronologically preceding one Characters are arranged as many divisions away as the days of the week between the beginnings of the two time periods lie, for which the signs themselves apply. 2. Calendar according to claim 1, characterized in that this scale consists of a plurality of square fields that are in Rows and columns are arranged and some of which are marked and others are blank and each field is a subdivision. 3. Calendar according to Claims 1 and 2, characterized in that each character on its scale differs from the chronologically preceding one by as many fields apart, consecutively counted along the columns, as the days of the week between the beginnings two periods of time, for which the signs themselves apply. 4. Calendar according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that one or more characters are on a scale. Repeat the distance of seven fields and / or a multiple of seven, counting the fields along the columns consecutively. • ■ - ■ 0 0 9 8 3 0/1284 5. Calendar according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that it has one or more weekly scales in whose fields the days of the week are entered, furthermore one or more monthly scales in whose fields the days of the months are entered, as well as one or more annual scales, The fields in which the months of the year are entered and one or more scales for centuries, decades and individual years, in the fields of which the numbers and digits of the centuries, decades and the years of each are entered. 6. Calendar according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the decade scale the odd digits have a special identifier and in the scale the Year of each digit appears twice, once without and once with an indicator, with a decade digit with or without a number one year digit when reading the calendar is to be assigned with or without identification. 7. Calendar according to claim 1, characterized in that it consists of a table-shaped frame with a plurality of vertical ones Rails and a middle, horizontal window, on one horizontal edge inscriptions indicating the days of the month, the Months, the centuries and the decades are appropriate, as well as with two fixed scales with days of the week and the year, furthermore with a first slide, which can be moved in a guide of the frame, with the scale of the days of the month and a reference arrow for the to the right of the scale, with a second slide with the scale of the, also slidable in a guide of the frame Months and a reference arrow for the scale on the right and a third, which can also be moved in a guide on the frame Slider with two scales for centuries or decades. 009830/1284 8. Calendar according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that instead of the scales for centuries and the decades and the scale with the years a single fixed scale is provided which the characters for a particular one Bears a period of, for example, 20 years. 9. Calendar according to claim 1, characterized in that it consists from a cylindrical holder, which on its outer surface at the two ends, possibly somewhat larger in diameter a first scale for the days of the week and a second scale for the year one carries, from a rotatable sleeve on the holder, which is next to the The scale is arranged with the days of the week and bears the scale of the days of the month as well as a reference arrow for the scale on the right, also from a second, next to the first sleeve, which is also rotatable on the holder and with the scale of the months as well is provided with a reference arrow for the scale on the right, as well as a third, rotatable. sleeve on the holder between the second sleeve and the other end of the holder, which bears the scales of the centuries and decades. 10. Calendar according to claim 1, characterized in that it consists from a pane that bears the scale with the days of the month on its visible side as well as a sector-shaped window with a round edge and a sector-shaped edge cutout from a first disc-shaped element which can be rotated around a pin on the disc and on the side facing away from the disc has a circular, has a radial projection, on the edge of which the scale of the months is plotted, furthermore a radial projection on the the disc facing side with a reference arrow, further from a second, ring-shaped element, which around the radial projection of the first element is rotatable and on the vr ^v 'i _? i ^ - 'Sclieibenausachnitt visible side carries a scale for the days of the week and on the other side the scale of the year one, further from a third, disc-shaped element, the 009830/1284 _{0R: GlNAL} , NSPECTED is also rotatable around the pin on the holder disc and in the middle of the visible side the scale of the centuries bears the scale of the decades in a division up to the disc edge for the purpose of display by the reference arrow on the first, rotatable element as well as along part of the outer edge, with the The diameter of this disc is smaller than that of the ring-shaped element and the scale with the years is visible. 11. Calendar according to claim 1, characterized in that it consists of a table-shaped frame which has a plurality of guides on the inside and carries twelve fields on the upper side, which correspond to the twelve months of the year and carry a monthly inscription on a horizontal edge, The fields that apply to the months of March to December have fixed scales with five columns and seven rows each with the days of the month, furthermore with a left window, the dimensions of which correspond to those of a column, while the fields for January and February have a window , the dimensions of which correspond to those of the fields, also a single window on the back of the frame made up of two rectangles, the parallel sides of which lie against those of the frame itself, with the first rectangle on the horizontal edges showing the centuries, decades and years of the respective year as well as a vertical edge a reference arrow for the scale of the centuries te of the respective year, while the second square bears details of the centuries, decades and years of the previous year, furthermore consisting of a first slide that can be moved in a guide of the frame, which in turn is provided with two guides and a window that extends over it extends these two guides, the front of the slide having one or more scales with the days of the week, which appear in the window of the month fields of the year, and on its back a scale of the years, which is shown through the rear window of the frame ORIGINAL INSPECTED 009830/1284 corresponding to the respective year becomes visible, as well as a reference arrow for the scale of the centuries of the previous year from a second slide, which can be moved in a groove of the first slide and two scales for the centuries and for the Decades that appear in the window of the frame corresponding to the previous year, as well as from a third slider that is between the frame and the slider running in it can be moved and has two scales for January and February on its front, this slide being adapted to be connected to the frame forms two windows, the dimensions of which are equal to those of a column. μ are, while on the back of this slide is the scale of the year is attached and appears on the window of the frame according to the previous year, and from a fourth slider, which is in a The guide of the frame carrying the scales of the centuries and decades can be displaced, with the scales in the window of the frame according to the centuries and decades of each Appear every year. 12. Calendar according to claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the cylinder-shaped holder is the shaft of a spring holder or of a pencil forms. 13. Calendar according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that it forms an element of a desk set. 009830/1284