US276643A

US276643A - Missouei

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Publication number: US276643A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-05-01
Anticipated expiration: 1900-05-01

Description

(No Model.)

L. M. SWITZLER.

CALENDAR.

Patented May IJV'VEJVITOR 67 Wtofneys; I

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT QFF CE.

LEWIS M. SWITZLER, OF COLUMBIA, MISSOURI.

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,643, dated May 1, 1833.

Application filed Januaryfil, 1883.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEWIS M. SWITZLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Golumhia, in the county of Boone and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Galendar, of which the following is a specification, referencebein g had to the accompanying drawings. This invention relates to calendars, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive,

and efiicient perpetual memorandum-calendar .can be suspended upon a hook, B, passing through a hole at its top, as shown in the drawings. The back piece may be provided with a projecting base, (Lat its bottom, which will.

serve as a desk, or for any other purpose.

D is a casing, that is arranged at the top of the back board, and is provided with longitudinal slots E and F in its face. In this casiu g e are journaled two rollers, G and H, having ends I projecting at the sides of the said casing, so that they may be turned by hand. On the top roller, G,are arranged the days of the week, so that they can be successively brought to view by turning the roller before the opening E. In like manner the under roller, H, carries the names of the months, so that these may be brought to view at the opening F. These rollers can be provided with separate casings, or they can be both inclosed in one casing, as shown.

Some distance below the casing D are an ranged staples J J, longitudinally disposed in relation to the back board, and on these staples are strung thirty-one cards, K, each being provided with eyelets L, through which the staples pass. On'one face of these cards are arranged successively the numbers of the days (No model.)

of a month, from 1 to 31, while the reverse face of the cards can be used to display advertisements or other matter. The face of the cards bearing the number of the day of a a month is normally exposed, and as the days pass in succession the cards are turned over on the staples and hang therefrom, so-as to present their advertising side to view. The numbered face of the cards is adapted to receive any desired memoranda, and the cards are preferably formed of a material that will admit of the memorandabeing erased to make place for other notes.

M is an inclined back or rest piece that is arranged above the staples, against which the cards rest in inclined position when turned up, to obviate accidental falling over of the cards. The ends of the staples may be secured permanently to the back board, or the upper end only can be permanently secured, in which case the staple will be formed of elastic wire, and its lower end will rest in a recess or perforation, N, in' the back board. The lower end, 0, can then be lifted out of the said perforation N, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 4 of the drawings,'to admit of removal of the cards from off the staples for substitution or other purposes. Below the staples a space is provided for the attachment of a yearly calendar, P. The top edge of the staples is provided with notches Q, that serve to retain the cards resting on top of the staples against accidental dicate the months, in lieu of the month-roller.

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they will incline against this back to obviate ing the elastic end from the perforations, as accidental falling over, as set forth. set forth.

2. As an improvementin calendars,the com- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as bination of a back piece having recesses or my own 1 have hereto affixed my signature in 5 perforations, staples havililg orllle enld secure? presence of two witnesses.

to the back piece and t e ot er e astic enr fitting in the perforations in the latter, and LEWIS MIULON' SWITZLER' adapted to be removed from the same, and Witnesses: indicating-cards strung on the staples-and R. J. BOOTH, IO adapted to be removed therefrom by disengag- GEO. F. TROXELL.