US1848634A - Perpetual calendar - Google Patents

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March 8, 1932. A. M. KRUGER PERPETUAL CALENDAR Filed March 22, 1929 Fig.2.

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INVENTOR .Allaert N. ru er ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 8, 1932 PATENT OFFECE ALBERT M. KRUGER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY PERPETUAL CALENDAR Application filed March 2 2, 1929. Serial No. 349,229.

This invention relates to improvements in perpetual calendars; and the invention has reference, more particularly, to a unique and simple arrangement of parts whereby a display of the dates of any given month may be obtained in correspondence to the days of the month on which said dates may fall in any given year.

The invention has for its principal object to provide a perpetual calendar comprising parts of such construction and cooperative arrangement that the amount of printing reuired is reduced to a minimum, and in which t e parts themselves are reduced to a minimum number.

Another object of this invention is to provide in connection with the perpetual calendar device means for selectively eliminating display of date numerals 29, and 31 in connection with any given month in which such dates do not occur.

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particularly enumerated, will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the same.

An illustrative embodiment of the novel perpetual calendar made according to this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the base member of the calendar, illustrating the mannor in which its parts are arranged to provide a plurality of sections carrying month and day captions, which sections may be selectively folded to disclose any given month.

Fig. 2 is a face view of the calendar with its parts assembled and arranged for use.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank of the date numeral carrier.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank of the cover strip and date numeral eliminator.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the above described views to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, the reference character A indicates a body or base member upon the opposite sides or faces of which are printed the month designations together with transverse rows of spaces in which the day of the week designations are displayed.

In the preferred form of body or base member, as shown in the drawings, the same is scored transversely to provide a plurality of sections a, a and a Each section bears on each face thereof two month names with associated week day designations, as, for example, January and February on one face of section (1. These month and associated week day designations are preferably arranged to read from opposite ends of the section. In the illustrative arrangement, the month and day designations for January and February are displayed on one face of section a and the month and day designations for November and December are displayed in like manner on the opposite face of section a. On one face of section a the month and day designations for March and April are thus displayed, and on the opposite face of section a the month and day designations for September and October are displayed. On one face of section a the month and day designations for May and June are displayed, and on the opposite face of section a the month and day designations for July and August are displayed. The sections a, a and a may be selectively folded to expose any desired face of a given section. It will be understood, however, that the three section arrangement of the base or body member shown in the drawings and above described is to be considered as illustrative and not in a limiting sense, since a greater or less number of foldable sections may be employed by printing more or less of the month and day designations on the faces thereof, all whereby a display of any given month name may still be selectively attained.

An adjustable date carrying member is provided for selective operative association with a given month and day designation. This date carrying member comprises a flexible strip or band B upon the face of which are printed thirteen columns individually corresponding in width to the spaces on the main body or base member A containing week day designations. Transverse rows of (late numerals are arranged in said columns as follows :In the seven columns at the right the date numerals, beginning with the top row,

run consecutively and continuously from row to row from 1 to 31, and in the six columns to the left, beginning with the second row, the date numerals run consecutively toward the left in each row in reverse order, all as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The date carrying strip or band B is operatively applied to an exposed section of the body or base member A by wrapping the strip or band B transversely around the latter, as shown in Fig. 2. The strip or band, as thusapplied to thebody or base member A, may be moved transversely to adjust the same to the month and day designation of the exposed section of said body or base member A in such manner as to bring the date numeral 1 into register with the day designation of the displayed month on which the first of the month occurs; and owing to the described arrangement of the columns and rows of date numerals on the strip or band B, the date numerals will there upon be properly arranged in consecutive order so as to properly correspond to the days of the respective weeks of the displayed month. The free ends of the strip or band B may be folded around the rear face of the section of the body or base member A to which it is applied, and then the remaining sections of said body or base member A may be folded down over the infolded ends of the strip or band B; or, if desired, said strip or band B may have its ends joined to form a continuous band or belt which maybe arranged to encircle either the given displayed section of the body or base member A or all of said sections of the latter when they are folded together; in either casethe date carrying strip or band will be transversely movable around the body or base member A so as to be capable of adjustment to register the date numerals in proper relation to the week day designations of the displayed month.

If desired, the body or base member sections may be provided, adjacent to their respective ends, with perforationsE, certain of which will registertogether when said sections are brought into selected folded relation, so that a combined tie and suspension cord F may be threaded therethrough to both retain the sections in the selected folded arrangement and the associated parts in place, whileat the same time affording a convenient means for suspending the calendar for .disnother novel feature of this invention resides in the provision of means to eliminate dates from the display which are not included in a given month selected for such display. This means comprises a transverse endless cover band C having at its upper margin an upwardly projecting tabD of a width equivalent to the width of three of the date numeral columns of the strip or band B. After the body or base member A and date carrying strip or band B have beenassembled together and relatively adjusted, if the displayed month has less than 31 days, the cover band C, which is applied in encircling relation about the body or base member and strip or band B as assembled together, is adjusted so as to position the tab D over such dates as maybe desired to be. concealed and thus eliminated from the calendar display of any given month; all of which will be readily understood from an inspection of Fig. 2 of the drawings. The cover strip G provides a further advantage in that it furnishes an additional means for retainin the sections of the body or base member 1A in selected folded arrangement, and also retains the date carrying strip or band in operative assembled relation to the body or base member, and in its adjusted relation to the latter.

The novel perpetual calendar, embodying the principles of'this invention as above set forth, may have its parts made of any suit able material. For example, the body or base member A may be made of comparatively stiff paper, cardboard, pyrox ylin, sheet metal or other material, while the date car rier strip" or band B and the cover band C may be made of a flexible material such as paper, textile fabric, pyroxylin, leather, or the like.

From the above description it will be obvious that this invention provides a novel construction and arrangement of associated parts adapted to. provide, a perpetual calendar, and one in which the parts are reduced to a minimum number, and in which the re- 1.

quirement of printed matter is also reduced to a minimum. Furthermore, the construction and arrangement is capable of quick, easy and simple manipulation to the end that any given month in the calendaryear may be brought into display positon with properly associated date numerals at will.

Having thus described by, invention, I claim 1. In a device of the kind described, a base member foldable transversely at two points to divide the same into three sections, each face of each section carrying two month designations and associated week day designations, and adate numeral carrying strlp adapted to be disposed around said base member injassocia tion with a given selected and displayed month designation and associated week day designations and in transversely adjustable relation thereto to, bring the exposed date numerals inproper correlation to the week day designations of the displayed month, and means cooperative with said carrying strip to conceal certain date numerals. thereof when desired.

2. In a device of the kind described, a base member comprising three connected sections foldable into superimposed relation andjprovided ontheir faces with associated month and week day designations, said sections being foldable to dispose a given face of any single section in outwardly facing display position, a date numeral carrying strip adapted to be disposed transversely of said base 5 member in association with a given selected month and week day designation of an outwardly facing section thereof, said carrying strip having thirteen columns of date numerals so arranged that the seven right hand columns bear transverse rows of numerals running consecutively from row to row from 1 to 31 and siX left hand columns having date numerals running consecutively to the left in each row in reverse order beginning with 35 the second row, said carrying strip being transversely adjustable to bring exposed date numerals in proper correlation to the week day designations of the displayed month, and a cover strip superimposed over and about 52 said assembled base member and date numeral carrying strip in adjustable relation thereto, said cover strip having a tab projecting therefrom and movable therewith to cover and conceal certain date numerals of 5 said carrying strip when desired, said tab having a width equivalent to the width of three date numeral columns.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 539 14th day of March, 1929.

ALBERT M. KRUGER.

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