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Description

W. S. ORTH.

CALENDAR.. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15. 1916.

Patented Aug. 14,1917.

ATTORNEYS WILLIAM S. ORTH, OF DUNKIRK, OHIO.

CALENDAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 14:, 1917.

Application filed March 15, 1916. Serial No. 84,308.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM S. ORTH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Dunkirk, in the county of Hardin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to calendars, and the main object thereof is to provide such a device of the perpetual type wherein it is not necessary ever to reverse any of the cards at the end of a day, week, month, or year, in order to begin a new period, said cards always being turned in the same direction.

A further object is to provide card suspension devices of special type, particularly for the central series, whereby the daily, weekly, or monthly turnings above referred to are rendered very easy.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer to like parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my calendar in desk form, showing an intermediate step in turning the foremost card of the bottom series to the rear;

Fig. 2 is a front face view thereof, ready for use;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a detached view of a detail.

My invention comprises a frame formed of wire, carrying a plurality of series of cards suitably designated, each series being carried by wire rin s of a size permitting the free card swinging movement.

The desk form shown in Figs. 1 to 3, in clusive, comprises a frame 7 formed of side members 8 held together by two horizontal rods 9 and 10, each of which rods is rigidly held and provided with depending looped portions 11 adjacent their ends, each side member 8 being formed of a length of wire bent centrally into a loop and the ends downwardly directed and outwardly flared to provide foot members 8, the ends of the rods 9 and 10 being secured between the parallel portions S of the side members 8.

Depending from the loops 11 of the rod 9 are rings 12, preferably of the split variety, passed through registering holes of a series of cards 14, this series bearing the series of cards, the turning of one or more upwardly and backwardly is simple and easy.

Looped over the ends of the rod 9 is a yoke 18 of a height permitting free swinging thereof beneath the series 14 of cards but at a material height above the rod 10, the horizontal portion of this yoke having loops 19 formed therein similar to the loops 11.

Depending from these loops 19 are split rmgs 20 passed through holes 21 in a series of cards 22 of a height permitting free swinging thereof above the rod 10, this series of cards bearing the monthly designations, and revealing the same designations upon opposite calendar sides, there being twelve of these cards, as will be obvious.

The yoke 18 forms an important part of my calendar inasmuch as when it is desired to turn one of the cards 17 to the back said yoke and the cards 22 suspended therefrom are swung rearwardly sufficiently far to permit the card 17 being moved to clear said yoke and cards 22.

Similarly, the series of cards 14 may be swung rearwardly to permit the clearance of a card 22 which is to be swung to the rear, but the turning back of one of the cards id is possible without disturbing the positions of the other series of cards. As soon as the cards so disturbed are released they return to normal positions by gravity, as will be seen, and, in the daily, and monthly, turnings of the cards of the several series, the first card of each series eventually comes into view, ready for a new cycle or period of time, thus making the calendar truly perpetual and without the reversing of any of the parts to start fresh, as for instance at the beginning of a new ear.

Having fully descri ed my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by cured between the parallel side bar mem- Letters Patent, is bers, and cards suspended from said brace 10 In a device of the class described, a frame bars.

including Vertical side bars formed,eaeh, of

5 a length of Wire bent centrally to form WILLIAM ORTH downwardly extended parallel members the WVitnesses: lower ends of which are diverged to form R. C. Pens, feet, spaced horizontal brace bars rigidly se- OMAH E. JONES.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the C m ne of P tent Washington, D. C.

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