US1067208A - Calendar. - Google Patents

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S. M. ALK. CALENDAR. APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, 1907.

Patented July 8,1913.

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SAMUEL M. ALK, OF NEW YORK, N.

UALENDAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

,i, i r 5 Paton ted d uly Application filed May 190?. Serial No. 371,406.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that l, SAMUEL M. Ann, a citizen of Russia, and a resule'nt of New York,

in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Tmprovements in Calcndars, of which the following is a specification. y

This invention relates to calendars adapted to be placed on the ends of pencils, pen iolders, &c., and consists of a tube or ferrule adapted to be slipped over the end of a pencil or pen holder and have the months, days of the week, and dates of the month movably arranged thereon so that they be properly set to act as a calendar as will be more fully explained in the following specification, set forth in the claims and illustrated in the drawings accompanying this application, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a pencil having the calendar applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the outer tube. Fig. 3 is a sectional view ot the same. Fig. a is an elevation of the inner tube. Fig. 5 is a sectional View of the same. Fig. 6 is a cross sectional view on the line 66 of Fig. 1. The invention consists primarily of an inner tube 10 of a size corresponding with the end of a pencil and whose lower end abuts the end of said pencil. This tube carries an endless tape 11, of paper, celluloid or other flexible material, on which are printed consecutively the numerals representing the days of the month and it passes through slot 12 from the interior to the outside of the tube and may be adjusted to proride for the display of whatever days are to be recorded on the calendar. Through the lower slot 12 projects a spring finger 9 which presses against the tape 11 and creates enough friction against the bottom of the depression 8 to prevent its being moved until the finger is raised. The upper end of this tube 10 carries several rings 13, three being represented, and each ring containing the names of four months, the said rings being free to turn upon the tube and within this end of the tube is carried a rubber eraser 14 or any other tip or ornament that may be desired.

The tube 10 is fitted within an outer tube 15 having at its upper end an enlarged portion 16 for the accommodation of the rings 13. and an opening 17 for the display of a certain month. This tube is slotted. also at 18 in order to display the days of the "week and on one side of this slot is marked eertain letters representing the days of the week from hlunday to Saturday, the said letters coinciding with seven numerals on the band 11 so that the band may be adjusted once a week to cause the calendar to read correctly. Along the opposite side of the tube 1.3 is a rib 19 which limits its movement upon the end of the pencil and a slit 20 causes the end of the tube to act as a clamp in securing it to thepencil. The movement eat the rings 13 on the tube 10 is limited by means of the abutment 16* at the end of the enlarged cylinder 16. The tube 10 also has a rib, 22, which is adapted to slide in the rib 19 and prevents the exterior tube from rotating around the interior tube.

llt is obvious that various modifications may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the essential features above described.

in operating this calendar the proper month is so disposed before the slot 17 as to require no further adjustment during that period and to accomplish this the proper ring must be located in the center of the groupso'that the month may be turned to appear before the slot. Likewise, the band 11 must be so adj ustcd before the slot 18 that the days of the month must coincide with the proper days of the week for the Week in which the calendar is in use. For convenience in registration the names of the days of the week are also applied to the inner tube 10 at the side of the tape 11. This construction provides for a simple and economical calendar which can be carried 0:: the end of a pencil. penholder. fountain pen &c. and readily be set without requiring further adjustment before the expiration of a week or a month.

It is evident that the contour of the cross section is immaterial and may be varied, as desired.

\Vhat ll claim as new is: v

1.. lln a perpetual calendar for pencils, the combination of two telescopic tubes with the days of the week carried by the exterior tube, a ring on the inner tube carryingnames of months and a tape with the days of the month adapted to slide longitudinally of the tubes, there being openings in the exterior tube through which the indicia on the ring and tube may be viewed.

2. In a perpetual calendar .foi' pencils, the the outer tube from rotating on the inner combination of a tube adapted to be attached tube. 7 7 1 to the end of a pencil, an endless tape carry- Signed at New-York in the county of New ing the dates of the'month and adapted to York and State of'N. Y. this 27th day of 5 be sing lljongaifzudirgally 3f said tube, a ring. April A. D. 1907.

carrle y t e-tu e an carrying names 0 Y 7 months, an outside tube adapted to fit over SAMUEL the first tube and having slots'to exhibit the Witnesses:

- name of a month-and the dates falling with- C. A. O. ROSELL,

10 in any given week and means for preventing L. M. HUGGINS.

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