US2712810A - Reminder sheets - Google Patents

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July 12, 1955 L. A. RANKO ET AL 2,712,810

REMINDER SHEETS Filed Feb. 24, 1954 lNVENTOR` BY 7/ELM 5Fl/Ml.

ATTORNEY ?a.tented july 12, 1955 kanonnen SHEETS Leonard A. Ranko, New York, and Bernard Flushing, N. Y.

Application February 24, 1954, Serial N 412,145 1 Claim. (Cl. 116-133) L. Shank,

Our invention is an improved memorandum sheet, especially a sheet having the names of commodities listed thereon, and comprising novel means for indicating which of the commodities so listed must be kept in mind by the user.

An important object of this invention is to provide a sheet of material having projections on its edge, one adjacent each of said names, and an element of elastic material to be attached to any required number of said projections, to prevent all the articles having their names on the sheet adjacent said projections, from escaping the users attention. The sheet or card is especially ntended for the housewife at shopping time to keep her reminded of items to be purchased for the household, such as groceries and other articles for the table and pantry.

The nature and advantages of the invention are fully set forth hereinafter and the novel features are defined in the appended claims. But the disclosure is by way oi example only and variations may be adopted in minor respects Without omission or marked alteration of any of the essential characteristics.

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Figure 1 is a plan View of a cording to this invention,

The numeral 1 indicates the sheet as a whole. It can be made of cardboard, wood, plastic or other suitable stijf material, and is preferably rectangular in general shape and outline. The shorter opposite edges or ends of the card or sheet have each a pair of apertures 2 with slits 3 connecting the apertures to said edges. A loop 4 of elastic material is disposed in the apertures 2 by slipping it through the cuts 3, so that it lies along one face of the sheet with its ends running across from one aperture 2 to the other at each end of the sheet. Along each of the longer sides are recesses 5, with rounded inner ends 6. The outer ends of the recesses 5 are also rounded off with diverging curved sides to form founded projections 7 between said recesses 5, and the rojections at the ends of each longitudinal row have :emcircular notches 8 in line with the edges or ends rearing the apertures 2.

On the card 1 at each projection 7 is a name of a memorandum sheet accommodity needed by the household of the user, and kept on hand by the grocer or butcher. When there is shopping to be done, the items needed are with equal ease over the projections 7 the items to be bought. The user then merely scans the projections 7 which are engaged by the portions 9 and 10 of the loop, releasing the projections 7 in succession as the commodities are taken in hand, till the needs of the kitchen and pantry are all lled. The card 1 and loop 4 are preferably in distinctive colors, so that the cook or housewife will not overlook anything that is needed.

since the portions 9 and 10 can be slipped over the projections 7, and removed merely by stretching the loop 4.

Having described our invention, what we believe to be new is:

A memorandum sheet of rectangular outline having rows of projections along opposite edges thereof, said sheet having recesses with rounded inner ends and diverging curved sides in said edges to form rows of rounded projections between said recesses, said sheet having the name of an article adjacent each projection, the sheet also having apertures adjacent each end thereof between said rows, and a cut running from each aperture to the adjacent edge of said sheet, and an endless single loop of elastic material having portions in said apertures at both ends and extending from end to end iirst-named portions and extending along said rows in engaged with one or more of said projec-

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