US1520648A - Calendar - Google Patents

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A. S. HOLT CALENDAR Filed Feb. 18, 1924 MD N HE EL A C PEG THE DAY AND DATE ON YOUR 5941 W 4 s @0 3 O O 0 REMINDER REMINDER Amos Shaclilel'on l agf g ATTL'RN EY Patented Dec. 23, 1924.

UNITED STATES 1,520,648 PATENT OFFICE.

AMOS SHACKLETON HOLT, OF GLEN RIDDLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CALENDAR.

Application filed February To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Amos SirAcKLn'roN HOLT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glen Riddle, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have in vented new and useful Improvements in Calendars, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to calendars and more particularly to a permanent calendar which is designed not only to permit quick and accurate ascertaining of the day and date, but which will, owing to the operation of the same, impress upon the mind of the operator or owner, the day of the week and the month, and one which is constructed in such a manner as to be fascinating in a certain degree, to the operator.

Another object of this invention is to provide a calendar as specified, which includes a board or body provided. with a plurality of perforations one for each day in the year and arranged in series simulating the days of the month and to provide colored pegs adapted for insertion into the perforations, to indicate the days and dates and further, to provide in close proximity to the date indicating perforations for indicating the various days of the week, with which perforations a peg of different color from the date indicating peg is used, and also to provide a plurality of pegs of special or particular colors which may be used as re minders as desired.

Another object of the invention is to provide a calendar structure to record with movable pegs and printed perforated board, the day of the week, the day of the month, and the month of the year, and the year of the Gregorian calendar.

Other objects of the invention will appear in the following detail description, and in the accompanying drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a face view of the improved calendar.

Figure 2 is a cross section through the calendar.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the. improved calendar comprises a body board 1 which may be constructed of any suitable material and in any suitable manner similar to the manner of construct ing what is commercially known as punchboards. On the face of the body 1 is printed in suitable spaces preferably adjacent each vertical edge, the consecutive numbers 18, 1924. Serial No. 693,699.

from 1 to 31 to represent the date or day of the month, and the space of the face of the body 1 between the two series of numbers is divided into twelve longitudinally extending columns 3 which are indicated at both upper and lower ends of the columns with suitable indices representing the months of the year. The various columns 3 are di vided by transversely extending lines into 31 spaces corresponding with the numbers in the side rows 2 and these spaces are perforated. Each column is perforated only with a number of openings corresponding to the number of days in the respective months of the year, for example, the column indicating the month of January, has a perforation in each of the spaces or has 31 perforations therein whereas the column for the month of April, has but 30 perforations. It will be noted that the column for the month of February has 29 perforations, so as to adapt the calendar for both regular and leap years.

Above the columns 3, the board 1 is provided with 6 perforations, 4: arranged in a straight line transversely of the body and these 6 perforations have suitable indices associated therewith to indicate the working days of the week. A seventh perforation 5 is positioned above the row of perforations l and it has indices associated therewith to indicate Sunday.

At the bottom of the body 1 beneath the columns 3 are provided any desired number of perforations 6 preferably arranged in a straight row and the word Reminder is printed in close proximity to these last named perforations 6.

A peg '7 which is preferably of a distinctive color such as red, is provided for cooperation with the various perforations in the columns 2 and a second peg 8 of a different distinctive color, as for example, blue, is provided for cooperation with the perforations and 5, while pegs 9 of distinctive colors, different from the colors of the pegs '7 and 8, are provided, and which normally rest in the perforations 6, at the bottom of the body 1. These latter pegs 9 are adapted to be placed in any one of the perforations in the columns 2 to serve as a reminder to the owner of the calendar for special things to be ren'iembered on special days.

The portion of the face of the body 1 above the perforations A and 5 may serve as an advertising space, or for receiving any suitable type of printing.

In operating the calendar, for instance, the present day is Friday, January 11th, and the red peg 7 is placed in the perforations in the January column 2, in the transverse row aligning with the numbers 11 in the series of numbers along the edges of the face of the board and the blue peg 8 is placed in the perforations 4 indicating Friday, and upon the following day, the blue peg 8 is moved into the perforations 4 indicating Saturday, and the red peg 7 is moved forward one perforation and into alignment with the #12 thereby indicating that the day is Saturday, January 12th.

The improved calendar illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and just described, is essentially an individual calendar, and by moving the pegs to record the day and date from day to day, the same seemingly arrests the flight of time and impresses the mind of the operator with the day and date enabling him to more readily remember this without particular reference to the calendar. The calendar is also particularly adapted for use by the blind, in that they could readily tell the date by the sense of touch.

It is to be understood that the various pegs may be made of any suitable material, any suitable style or color without departing from the spirit of this invention, and if it is so desired. when the calendar is used in a year other than a leap year, one of the reminder pegs 9 may be inserted in the perforations 29 in the February column 2, to obliterate these perforations.

It is, of course, to be understood, that the invention may be constructed in various other manners and the parts associated in different relations, and therefore, I do not desire to be limited in any manner, except as set forth in the claims hereunto appended.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a calendar comprising a body provided with a plurality of perforations one for each day of the year, and with a second plurality of perforations one for each day of the week, said body having printed thereon in proximity to the various perforations, suitable indicating indices and pegs for insertion in said perforation and co-operating with said indicia to permit the user to readily determine the day of the week and date of the month.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a

calendar comprising a body having printed on the face thereof, adjacent its opposite edges, rows of numbers in sequence to indicate the days of the month, said body between said rows being divided into columns to represent the months of the year, and each of said columns being cross divided and perforated to provide a perforation for each day of the month, and a peg for insertion in said perforation.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a calendar comprising a body having printed on the face thereof adjacent its opposite edges, rows of numbers in sequence to indicate the days of the month, said body between said rows being divided into columns to represent the months of the year, and each of said columns being cross-divided and perforated to provide a perforation for each day of the month, and a peg for insertion in said perforation, said body provided with a plurality of perforations positioned above said columns, said last named perforations being provided to indicate the days of the week and a peg of different appearance than said first named peg for co-operation with the last mentioned series of perforations.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a calendar comprising a body having printed on the face thereof adjacent its opposite edges, rows of numbers in sequence to indicate the days of the month, said body between said rows being divided into columns to represent the months of the year, and. each of said columns being cross-divided and perforated to provide a perforation for each day of the month, and a peg for insertion in said perforation, said body provided with a plurality of perforations positioned above said columns, said last named perforations being provided to indicate the days of the week and apeg of different appearance than said first named peg for cooperation with the last mentioned series of perforations, said body provided with a series of perforations below said first mentioned perforations, said last named lower perforations being provided for retaining reminder pegs, and a plurality of reminder pegs of different appearance from the day and date indicating pegs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

AMOS SHACKLETON HOLT

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