US1840179A

US1840179A - Calendar

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Publication number: US1840179A
Application number: US500356A
Authority: US
Inventors: White William Dabney; Macmillan Charles Wright
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1930-12-05
Filing date: 1930-12-05
Publication date: 1932-01-05
Anticipated expiration: 1949-01-05

Description

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INVENTOR WITNESSES J\ 2 56 0. WM Millan y W ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 5, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE KWILLIAM DABNEY, WHITE AND CHARLES WRIGHT MACMILLAN, or PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY CALENDAR Application filed December 5, 1980. Serial No. 500,356.

This invention relates to calendars, and has particular reference to an improved dayby-day calendar, in which a subdivided strip having indicia designating the days of a given year, month and week is movable past the display opening.

The present invention broadly aims to provide in a calendar of the indicated character,

. an improved means located within the display opening,- with which the designated strip'subdivisions cooperate for marking out the current day, while other remaining days past and/or future, are visible for ready reference. p a

The instant invention further aims to provide a calendar of the character set forth, which employs but few and simple parts, capable of economical production and assembly, which calendar may be operated either manually or mechanically, such as by a clock mechanism, and which serves effectually to perform the function for which it is designed. WVith the above recited and other objects in view, reference is had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in

whichthere is exhibited one example or embodiment of the inventiomwhile the claims define the actual scope of the same.

Inthe drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view-of a calendar constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a face view thereof on an enlarged scale, parts being broken away and shown in section to disclose the underlying 5 structure.

'Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional. view taken approximately on the line indicated at 33" in Figure 2.

Figure 4is a fragmentary face view of the calendar strip.

Referring to the drawings by characters ofreferenoe, 5 designates generally a casing or housing which includes a rear or bottom wall 6 and marginal end and side walls 7 and '8, the front'or top being open and, in the example shown, being provided with a frame 9 defining a display opening 10. Obviously, the casing or housing 5 may be constru'cted of wood, as illustrated, or of metal or any equivalent material. The casing orhousing is divided by a transverse partition 11, which extends from the bottom or rear wall 6 to a point spaced from the plane of the frame 9 and from one side wall 8 to the other, as clearly disclosed in Figures 2 and 3 of the drawings. A backing panel 12 dis- 15, within which transversely arranged spools are mounted for rotation, access being gained to the

compartments

14 and 15 by removing the screws or equivalent fastening elements- 16 which secure the backing panel 12 in place.

The spools as shown each include a cylindrical shank or core 17 having reduced

opposite extremities

18 and 19, the former being of greater length than the latter, to provide a manipulating extremity which protrudes beyond the casing or housing wall. The reduced extremities serve also as trunnions which bear in bearing openings 21 in the side walls 8 of the casing or housing. Disks 22 having apertures 23 of a diameter to snugly fit over the reduced extremities 18 serve as the spool flanges and may be secured thereto by a tack 24. A pair of plain washers 25 with a split lock washer 26 may be positioned over the reduced extremity 18 of each spool and interposed between the disk 22 and the inner surface of the side wall 8, while the remaining reduced terminal may have a plain washer 27 arranged thereo-ver and interposed between the disk and the inner surface of the side wall 8.

- A calendar strip 28 of a length to accommodate the weeks of one or more years is initially wound on the spool in the compartment 15 and its outer end is trained around one of the rounded edges 13, over the outer face of the backing panel 12 around the opposite rounded edge 13 and secured to the core 17 of the spool in the other compartment 14. This disposes a longitudinal portion of the entire printed width of the calendar strip in the compartment 14 projects from the right-hand side of the casing or hous ng, while the longer manipulating extremity 18'" of the spool in the compartment 15 projects from the left-hand sideofthe casing or housing 5, whereby both hands may be used in properlyiadjusting' the exposed portion of the calendar stripwith reference to the frame opening 10. 1 I h The calendar strip as shown is longitudinally subdivided by the transverse longitudinally spacedlpairs of lines30 and transversely subdivided by the longitudinal lines 31 presenting transverse rows of blocks or areas 32 representing the days of the weeks of a given year. Between each pair of subdivision lines 3O, ind1c1a 33 are lnscrlbed, indlcating the name of the day'of the week-,while the righthand area hasinscribed therein indicia 34 indicating the year. Within the block or area 32 in-dicia 35 indicate the date, of the day,

theremaining portion thereof affording adiaryspace upon whichthe user may write matte'r,-such as appointments, engagements orother memoranda, The right-hand block or area 32 of each row willhave inscribed therein indicia 36 indicating the name of the month, the number of the month and the number of the week-of a given year.

I-norder to provide means within the confines of the frame opening 10,. with which the subdivisions of the strip cooperate to selectively mark out the current day, a transversely angularly disposed edge or line 37 is provided, which in the present instance is shown as the lower stepped edge of a bar 38.- whichfforms a part of the frame 9 and which subdivides the frame opening so that past and future days are visible, in addition to; the current day marked out.

it will thus be seen From the foregoin that an improved calendar has been devised, by virtue of which the user may at a glance determine the current day while having reference to past and future days. The user may also instantly determine themonth, the number of the month and the number of the week, By adjusting the calendar strip 28 forwardly or rearwardly, days which are not simultaneously visible with the current day may be referred to, as wellas memoranda whlch emay appear in the diary space allotted to. said days.

I While there has been illustrated and described; a single and preferred embodiment gitudinally spaced subdivisions representing the weeks of a given year andhavingtrahsversely spaced subdivisions representing the days of the week and a stationary element having corresponding longitudinally and transversely spaced'means past which element the strip is movable longitudinally and with which strip said meanscooperates to selectively mark out the current day.

I 2. A calendar including a strip having longitudinally spaced subdivisions representing the weeks of a given year and having trapsversely spaced subdivisions representing the days of the weekand a stationary element having corresponding longitudinally and transversely spaced means past which element the strip is movable longitudinally and with which strip said means cooperates to selectively mark out the current day while displaying the days of the immediate future and the near past.

, 3. :A calendar including a strip having longitudinally spaced subdivisionsrepresenting theweeks of a given year and having transversely spaced subdivisions representing the days contained in said weeks, acasing'having a display opening through which theentire widthof a portion of the length of the strip isvisible and a stationary element having.

corresponding longitudinally and transversely spaced means past which element the strip a display opening through which the entire width of a portion of the length of the strip is visible, a stationary element having correspond nglongitudinally and transversely spaced means past which element the strip ismovable longitudinally and with-whichstripsaid means cooperates toselectivelymark out the current day and week and indiciain said subdivisions setting forth respectively the namegoffthe day, the date of the-day, .theyear,. the month, the number of the month, and the number of the week.

5. A calendar including a strip having longitudinally spaced subdivisions representing the weeks of: a given year and having trans- Verselyspaced subdivisions representing the days of the week and a stationary element presenting a: transversely angular edge, the

leading and trailing ends of which edge are spaced apart a distance equal to the spacing of the longitudinal subdlvisions, and past which element the strip is movable longitudinally and with which strip said angular edge cooperates to selectively mark out the current day.

6. A calendar including a strip having 1011- gitudinal subdivisions representing the weeks ofa given year and having transverse subdivisions representing the days of the week, a casing having a display opening through which the entire width of a portion of the length of the calendar is visible and means within the confines of said opening past which the strip is movable longitudinally and with which means said strip cooperates to selectively mark out the current day, said means consisting of a bar disposed transversely of the path of movement of the strip and provided with an angularly disposed edge, the longitudinal subdivisions being spaced apart a distance equal to the distance between the leading and trailing ends of the angularly disposed edge.

7 A calendar including a strip having longitudinal subdivisions representing the weeks of a given year and having transverse subdivisions representing the days of the weeks, a casing having a display opening through which the entire width of a portion of the length of the calendar is visible and means within the confines of said opening past which the strip is movable longitudinally and with which means said strip cooperates to selectively mark out the current day, said means consisting of a bar disposed transversely of the path of movement of the strip and provided with a stepped edge, the longitudinal subdivisions being spaced apart a distance equal to the distance between the leading and trailing steps of the stepped edge. WILLIAM DABNEY WHITE.

CHARLES WRIGHT MACMILLAN.