US548461A - Combined paper-weight and calendar - Google Patents

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R. I. ROBINSON.

COMBINED PAPER WEIGHT AND CALENDAR.

No. 548,461. Patented oct. 22, 1895.

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RCHARD F. ROBNSON, OF RIDGEFIELD PARK,*NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED PAPER-WEI cHT AND CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,461, dated October 22, 1895.

Application tiled February 7, 1895.

To @ZZ whom 25 nur/y concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD F. ROBINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ridgefield Park, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Paper-WVeight and Calendar, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to a combined paperweight and calendar, and has particular relation to that class ot such devices in which a paper-Weight is formed of glass or other like material and in which a calendar is 1ocated in such a manner as can be readily seen when in use.

My invention consists in the improved construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings,ligure l is a top plan view of my combined paper-weight and calendar. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-seotion of the same. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view, of the rotatable disks.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar. parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a paper-weight, formed of glass or other suitable material, and which may be of any suitable shape, but is preferably ot the form shown in Fig. 2. A circular recess d is formed in the base of the Weight for the reception ot thecalendar.

B designates a calendar, of circular form, adapted to be secured in said recess, said calendar comprising a stationary disk b5, rotatable disks b4 and b3, stationary disk b2, and securing cloth disk Z2. Eyelets bs bG secure disks b3 and b4 to the stationary disk b2, for the purpose of forming a securing and pivoting point for each of said disks.

Disk b5 is adapted to contain the calendarnumerals, arranged in concentric lines to correspond with the days of the week, as ordinarily arranged in monthly calendars. At the outer periphery of said disk an opening lines of numerals, and at a point inside ot and concentric with the calendar-numerals is located a rectangular opening ha, the object Serial No. 537,647- (No model.)

of which will be hereinafter described. This disk forms the upper face of the calendar.

Rotatable disk b4 contains the names of the months or their symbols, arranged in a concentric line near its outer periphery in such position that the name or symbol of any month will be located below the openingbs.

Rotatable disk b3 contains the names of the days of the Week or their symbols, arranged in such position that the days ot' the Week will be seen below the opening bl. It is, of course, necessary that there should be a plurality of names or symbolsin order to accommodate the disk and names or symbols to the varying of the days on which the same date falls in succeeding months.

The disk b2 and the cloth disk b are preferably secured together in order to stien the calendar, and each of said disks have arranged concentric with the eyelets b a plurality of openings, as clearly shownin Fig. 3, through which extend tabs, preferably formed of tape, ribbon, dsc., and secured to the under side of the respective disks. v

The operation will be readily understood by referring to the drawings, and it is not thought necessary to explain it in detail, except that the disks are changed at the endet each month by actuating the tabs andthe disks placed in proper position for the succeeding month.

. The advantages of my invention are obvious, but among them may be mentioned its simplicity of operation, its durability, and its cheapness, the whole forming a very neat, attractive, and useful desk ornament.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is The combined paper weight and calendar consisting of the transparent body or Weight having a circular recess in its under side, and

the circular calendar arranged in said recess IOO said numerals and above the data relating to the months, and the bottom disk, with its cloth-Covering disk, having openings through which are passed actuating tabs, and eyelets secured to said bottom disk and forming the pivots or axes for said pivoted disks, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD F. ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

P. E. PIERCE, HORACE E. DElTZ.

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