US1458264A - Chart - Google Patents

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June l2, 1923. n

E. BONNELYCKE CHART n@ NN@ June 12, 11923. 1,453,264

E. BNNELYCKE CHART Filed Jan. 25, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 ESCQQDQQMMNN IZ I5 I4 I5 Z6 Patented June l2, i923.,

stares EMIL BNNELYCKE, 0F WASHINGTON, DISTRICT 0F COLUMBIA.

CHART.

Application led January 25, 1922. Serial No. 531,728.

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL BNNELYCKE, citizen of the United States of America', residing` at 2123 California Street NW., Washington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Charts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a chart for indicating at a glance the particular ships assigned to sail, and those which have already sailed, from given ports, so that it will be unnecessary to resort to vthe use of the ordinary shipping schedules which are somewhat incomplete and which contain information regarding ships in which the user Vof the chart has no interest.

More particularly the present invention resides in the provision of a chart having thereon designated spaces to receive shipidentifying data showing the chronological order in which the identified ships are scheduled to depart, and designated spaces to receive 'ship identifying data showing the chronological order in which ships have departed.

In some of its aspects, the invention also includes the provision of a geographicallyindicated space to receive ship-identifying data of departed ships without regard to the chronological order of departure of the ships.

The present invention embraces the use of movable buttons lor pins for carrying ship-identifying data, and preferably each button bears the name of the ship, the port to which it sails and the time required for the voyage. Thus, when the buttons are placed in the designated spaces for indicating the chronological order of departure, which spaces are preferably designated according to the days of the month, the chart will show at a glance what ship or ships is or are scheduled to sail on any given day; and by adding the time indication on the button, which is preferably j given in days, to the sailing date, the date when the ship is due to reach its destination is obtained.

yAfter a ship has sailed, its button is removed to one of the spaces designating the chronological order of departure of departed ships, so that it may be easily determined by means of the time'indication on the button when the ship is duel to arrive at the port or ports indicated on the button.

If the chart contains, as in the preferred form, a geographically-indicated space to receive the ship-identifying buttons without regard to the chronological order of departure, then there are two identical buttons provided for each ship, one of which is placed in the departed space and the other of which is placed in the geographically-indicated space or map. Before the ship has sailed, and while the button therefor is in the column designed to indicate the chronological order of departure, the other corresponding button may be stored in an alphabetically or otherwise designated space to receive a supply of buttons.

ln the preferred form, the space to indicate the chronological order of departure of the ships is sufHciently large to permit the buttons to be arranged thereon two months in advance, so that at all times the future sailings can be easily noted, and so that as the end of the month approaches, the sailings duringthe next month will be shown. ln practice, it is considered advisable to rearrange monthly the buttons in the :spaces for indicating the chronological order of departure. These spaces are divided into two parts, one of which is designated Presentmonth and the other of which is designated next month.

In order that the schedule of sailings and the intended arrivals of ships from foreign' ports may be `readily seen, the preferred form of the chart comprises two substantiallyidentical parts each as above described, one for eastbound ships and the other for westbound ships; and hence, inthe preferred form, the geographically-indicated space to receive the ship-identifying buttons without regard to chronological order of departure is divided into two parts, designated Eastbound and Viestbound7 Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l shows the chart of the vpresent invention in its preferred form.

Fig. 2 shows a pair of buttons carrying ship-identifying data.

Fig. 3 is an edge view of one of the but tons. l

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary View of a portion of Fig. l. v

The chart of the present invention may be printed', photolithographed or otherwise marked or indicated upon a'sheet'A.. The

designated spaces B to receive ship-identi` fying data of ships scheduled to depart are formed by ruled lines 10;` and each space is provided with a numeral 11 to indicate the date of the 'month comprises designated spaces C for receiving ship-identifyimg data of departed ships.

These spaces C are produced by ruled lines 12, and each space is provided with a numeral 13y indicating the day of the month; the column .0f spaces C beingprovided with a caption vADeparted which' vindicates that ships identified vunder this column have c sailed.

The chart further comprises a geographically-indicated space in the form; of a map D. In the present case, the map D shows part of the- Atlantic sea-board of the' United States and the coast lineof part of, Canada and IGgreenland on theorie side, and on the other side it shows the coast line of a pora tion of Africa and Europe, and the British Isles. In other words, the map principally indicates the Atlantic Ocean,the chart beingl designed for use in `connection with transrAltlantic shipping.

The present invention embraces the use vof movable pins or buttons 14, shown in Fig. 2;

and each kof these buttons bears the name 15 of the ship, its port or ports 16 of destination, anda time-indication 17 designating the average length oftime required for its voyage. These buttons 14 maybe in any suitable-form, but they are preferably provided, each, vwith a pin 18 (Fig. 3) to pierce the sheet A of the chart andto yproject into the backing of the chart should a backing be utilized.

Any'suitable number of buttons may be provided for each ship in which the user of the Chart is interested; lbut in the preferred s 4fornrthere should be at least two identical buttonsv for eachship as above' explained, one to be'usedin connection withy the map D and vthe otherftobe used in connection with the ship scheduled to sail on theday indicated' by that space. For example, as shown in Fig. 4, the ship America is scheduled to sail on the 3rd of the month, and its button 14 is accordingly placed inthe space B designated by the numeral 3. `SinceA the United States also sails the same day, its

button is also placed in that space adjacentk the America button. c When aship has sailed its button 14 is transferred'from the space B t0 the Partcularspa C in the, departed column; which isnumbered to correspond to f the dayron, Which `theship sailed. For in.-V

The chart also stance, as shownin the drawing, the Paris, having sailed on the 2nd of the month, has its button transferred from the 2 space B to the 2 space C. It will then be apparent to the `user of the chart that the ,Paris, having sailed on the 2nd of the month and requiring on the average ,sevenvv days to make its voyage to Havre, will arrive y on the 9th day of the month; and by inspecting the departed column the user may ascertain when any ship which has sailed at al certain timeI will reach its destination and what other ships sailing about the same time will reach the same port.. c

Simultaneously with the removal of the button 14 to the departed column, its duplicate is taken from the column of alphabetically-arranged storage spaces E at the side of column C, and is placed on the map D so that it will have the appearance of being upon the ocean. There will of course be aft f all times a number of ships en route to for'- eign portsand thebuttons .corresponding to those ships will indicate at a glance their names and destinations with more ease than would be possibley by exa-mining the buttons arranged in their chronological order of de# When it has been determined byy i parture. v examination of the buttons on thev map D thatl a certain ship has sailed, the corresponding button is sought in thedeparted column; and by adding vto the number borne by the space in whichvthe button is vlocated` the number on the button., thedate upon which the ship is likely to reach its portis ascertained. s

When a ship reaches its destination, its

button 14is removed from the space C v-in the departed columnl to the lalphabetically arranged storage-column E; and, likewise, its corresponding button 14 'is removed to said storage column from the I Illfp D. This' is preferably done daily, so that at all times they chart will only show the ships which are still enroute or which are scheduled to sail.`

As the end o f the month approaches, it is desirable to ascertain information regarding ships sailing during the next month; and forthis purpose therey are provided spaces B similar to the spaces B. These spaces B are provided'with a caption 19 Next month?7 vwhile the spaces B are provided witha caption 2O Present month. In practice,.when

the end of the present month is reached, all

the buttons inthe spaces B will haveffbeen removed either to the departed spaces C or f the map D, or through the departedspaces C and the mapv D to the alphabeticallyar ranged storage Spaces E; or because. 'Q'fde-l lays ink sailings, or change's'inschedulethe buttons will have been moved to the next-` month spaces B. The buttons inthev nextmonth spaces B, which werearrangeds'imultaneously with the buttons for the'spaces B at the first of the previous'month, are

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transferred from the spaces B to the spaces B, the next month having then become the present month. The next-month spaces B having thus been vacated are filled by buttons corresponding to ships sailing the next month, or what is then the next month. This, of course, should be understood as being merely a suggestion as to the preferred mode of use of the chart. Obviously, other methods of arranging the buttons on the chart may be selected; for instance, the rearrangement of the chart may be effected on the 15th of the month. However, in practice it has been found advantageous to provide for an initial arrangement covering two months, so that all the spaces preceding the current spaces will be blank.

In contradistinction to the foregoing, it has been found in practice that for the departed spaces C it is merely necessary, and in fact is advantageous, to provide for a single month only; this being due to the fact that in trans-Atlantic shipping even the slowest ships do not require more than twenty days to reach their destinations, so that there would therefore always be from eight to twelve vacant spaces C between the buttons of ships which have sailed and are approaching their destination and those which have sailed on a current day.

It should be understood that the chart is designed to be altered day by day to the extent of transferring the buttons corresponding to ships which have sailed that day or the previous day from the spaces B to the departed spaces C, and of correspondiiligly transferring from the storage spaces identical buttons to the map D. If this is done regularly, as is intended, the chart will at all times show what ships are in transit and what ships are scheduled to sail in the immediate future.

Inv its preferred form, the chart is designed to supply data for ships sailing both eastward and westward; and for this purpose additional chronologically-designated spaces B2 and B3, similar to the spaces B and B, are provided to receive ship-identi fying buttons 14C of ships which are schedued to sail to sail from foreign ports to the home ports. The spaces B are provided with a caption 2l Eastbound and the spaces B2 are provided with a caption 22 l/Vestbound. The departed spaces C are provided at the same side of the chart as the spaces B and adjacent thereto, and ad* jacent the spaces B2 there are provided departed spaces C to receive the ship-identifying buttons 14- from the spaces B2 after the ship has sailed. In all respects, the spaces B and B are similar to the spaces B2 and B3, respectively; and in like manner, the spaces C preferably correspond in all respects to the spaces C.

The map portion D lis provided with a division line 23, and the space at one side of the division line is provided with a caption 24 Eastbound7 and the space at the other side is provided with a caption 25 Westbound -When a ship is sailing eastward, the corresponding button ld is placed at the side of the division line 22 bearing the (C 77 Eastbound caption, and when a ship is sailing westward the corresponding button is placed at the sidelof the dividing line bearing the lVestbound caption.

Adjacent the departed spaces C for westbound ships, there may also be provided alphabetically designated storage spaces E.

Each of the designated spaces B, B', B2 and B3, is preferably of such width as to accommodate at least five buttons 14, and the spaces C and C may also have the same width, if desired.

ln the operation of the chart in its preferred form the number of buttons required for each ship depends on how fast the ship is, that is on the number of round trips made by the ship during two months. A fast ship which for instance makes three round trips in two months would require at least seven buttons, namely three for the eastbound departure and departed spaces, three for the west-bound departure and departed spaces and one for the map space. A slower ship which only makes two round trips in two months would only require live buttons.

Varitations and modifications may be resorted to within the scope of my invention and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

I claim as my invention:

l. The combination of a chart having thereon two separate sets of definite spaces which are numbered in counterpart to indicate the chronological order of ships sailings, the first set indicating the ships scheduled to depart and the second set indicating departed ships; and a plurality of indicat-` ing devices, each bearing the name of a ship and its average time of voyage, adapted to be initially positioned in the spaces of the first set according to the chronological sailing schedule of the ships to which they relate, and to be successively transferred therefrom to the correspondingly-numbered spaces of the second set as said ships depart.

`2. The combination of a chart having thereon two separate sets of definite spaces which are numbered in counterpart to indicate the chronological order of ships sailings, the rst set indicating` the ships scheduled to depart and the second set indicating departed ships, and a geographically-indicated space; and two duplicate sets of indicating devices, each device bearing the name the indicating devices 0f` Ono,` set adapted SG1? Of indicating dovsvadapted'm'be posi i0 be, iiiiiiaiiy posiiioiiediii .the iiisi Sei of tQnedinSa-d gogrphCily'dicad Space spaces according' to the Chronological Sailing Slmulmneously with the transfer of the' w kSClechile Of the. shPS fov which theyxrel?, dllplQt@ indicating doVCoS .of therst. Set

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