US485133A - Combined paper-weight and calendar - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

. A. D. PALMER.

COMBINED PAPER WEIGHT AND CALENDAR. No. 485,133. Patented Oct. 25 1892.,

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUSTIN DOSIER PALMER, OF OOSIIOOTON, OHIO.

COMBINED PAPER-WEIGHT AND CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,133, dated October 25, 1892.

Application filed March 1'7, 1892.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUSTIN Dosrnn PALMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ooshocton, in the county of Ooshocton and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Paper-IVeight and Calendar; and I do declare the following to be so full, clear, and exact a description as will enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to manufacture and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide an inexpensive device that will answer the double purpose of a paper-weight and calendar. To that end I take a hollow cylinder or case of about two inches in diameter and one and one-half inches in length, made of tin, copper, or any substantial thin metal, and cut an opening nearly the length of its Width and about one-half inch in length near the top. Horizontally across the center of this opening I solder a small wire rod. To the upper edge of this opening I secure an inclined apron, the sides of which are bent to form flaps. The object of these flapped edges is to insert therebetween the edges of a rotary calendar, of which I shall speak later. Two depressed pieces of metal a little larger in circumference than the tube and provided with suitable holes in their centers are placed against the sides of the tube and secured against lateral displacement by a bolt being inserted through said holes and fastened by a nut onone side. I now produce a rotary calendar with the month, day, and date of the ensuing year stamped thereon, and pass the bolt adapted to hold the tubes sides together through the space provided in the center of the calendar, and thus form a shaft for its rotation.

To place the calendar in position on the apron, I bring its ends over the wire provided in the center of the opening and through the flaps provided on the apron. When a date has elapsed, another may be placed in position by simply drawing the finger firmly downward over that part of the calendar resting upon the apron, and the expired date may be torn therefrom by resting a finger of one hand on the calendar and, grasping the lapsed date with the other hand and bearing Serial No. 425,324. (No model.)

it firml y down against the edge of the apron, sever it. To the lower part of the case I attach a heavy metal base, adapted to serve the double purpose of a stand for a calendar and paper-weight.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is perspective view of my device; Fig. 2, afront elevation thereof.

A represents a hollow cylinder or case, and B B the sides thereof. These sides are held in position by the bolt a and nut a. Across the center of an opening formed near the top of this tube is a wire 0, and to the lower end of this opening is soldered an inclined apron D, provided with flaps or guidestrips b b.

E represents a rotary calendar provided in the tube and revolving upon the bolt a. One end is made to pass over wire 0 in the middle of the opening and upon the apronD through its flaps b b. A suitable base F of heavy metal, molded in any desirable shape or form, is now provided for the tube A.

It will be seen that the simplicity of this device, combined with its convenience, makes it not only useful as a combined calendar and paper-weight, but an appropriate ornament.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the construction of the device shown, as many other forms may be adopted with equal success without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I believe to be new, and therefore desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a combined weight and calendar, a heavy base having secured thereto a cylinder provided with an opening and a flap or apron extending out from said opening and provided with guide-strips,substantially as shown and described.

2. In a combined weight and calendar, a heavy base having secured theretoacylinder provided with an opening, a rod across said opening, and a flap or apron extending out from said opening and provided with guidestrips, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a combined weight and calendar, a heavy base having secured thereto a cylinder provided with an opening, a rod across said opening, and a flap or apron extending out from said opening and provided with guidestrips and said flap inclined downward, submounted upon a heavy weighted base and I0 stantlally as shown, and for the purpose provided with sides and bolt and nut for sespeoified. curing said sides, substantially as described. 4. In a combined paper-Weightand calen- In testimony whereof Iaffix my signatnre'in 5 dar, a hollow case provided with an opening the presence of two witnesses.

'near its top, a small rod running horizontally AUSTIN DOSIER PALMER.

across the center of this opening, and a fiapped Witnesses: metal apron secured on an inclined angle to BENJAMIN COE,

the end of said opening, said case being CECIL VVOLFORD.

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