US629864A - Calendar. - Google Patents

Description

' w. r. MALUREY.

I CALENDAR.

(Alppliutiqn filed Dec. 2, 1898.:

Mo Model.)

III-III?! -q' IIIII Patented Apg. i, 1899.

- lowing is a specification.

WILLIAM E. MALONEY,

PATENT OFFICE.

or onioneo, ILLINOIS.

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,864, dated August 1, 1899.

Application filed December 2, 1898. fierialll'o- 698,091. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/,- j

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. MALoNEv, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohioago, in the county of Cook and State oflllinois, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Calendars, of which the fol My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in calendars, and par hanging the ticularly to that class commonly used as deskcalendars and comprising a number of sheets arranged in a pad upon a suitable base and each sheet bearin g calendar information relative to a day of the year and amemorandulnspace.

The object of the invention is to provide for used sheets of a calendar-pad in an upright vertical position behind the unused sheets, but very little desk-space and all thesheets of the pad be preserved on file in a neat condition as long as desired. Y I Another object is to display theoalendar information relative to the current day in a conspicuous manner and at the same time provide a large memorandum-space on each sheet, the file of used sheets being hung in regular order, with the last sheet at the back, so that they can be readily consulted at any time.

A further object is to provide a device for holding or retaining the pad on a suitable base and embodying also a hanger to receive the used sheets at the end of each day, the combined holder and ban ger being .3 oined together, so that the sheets maypas's freely and easily from the holder to the hanger and be restrained from displacement at all times;. and further objects of the invention-areto' provide a top sheet for the calendar-pad bearing a yearly calendar, a picture, a photograph, an advertisement, or other matter,

so that the calendar will take up of the month on eachsheet,

My invention also has other objeotsin view, which will appear more fully hereinafter.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure is a perspective view of my imview.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in both of the figures, A designates a base for the calendar-pad B, and it is made lower at the front than at the back, preferably, so that the current sheet will be in the best position to display the information it bears and alsobring-the blank memorandum space into the most convenient position for use, as illustratedin the drawings.

The calendar-pad may be of the usual form, havinga-s'eparate sheet for each day of the year properly printed, each sheet bearing, near its top preferably, the name of the month and beneatliit a figure, in prominent type, designating one day of the month, a miniature calendar D of the preceding month at the left, and a miniature calendar E of the figure. At the bottom of the sheet I may print the day of the week, followed bythe information as may be desirable, the arrangement of the printed matter on the sheet bememorandum-space O.

such a manner first sheet or proved calendar, and Fig; 2 is asect'ionalnext succeeding month at the right, of the The first sheet F of the pad may bear a such action becomes necessary, The first sheet F may bear a picture ,a photograph, an advertisement, or any otherinformation desired.

date, as indicated, together with such other ing, preferably, such as to provide a large 7 be in plain view throughout the p A device for holding and hanging the sheets is removably connected to the base in a suitable manner, and it passes through perfora tions in the pad at G for the purpose of retaining the sheets permanently in place either on the base or on the hanger. This combined holder and hanger device is preferably made of a continuous piece of wire, and its ends are fastened to the base, while the looped portion is carried rearward and then bent or doubled back under until the straight piece H, which connects the two members of the device and constitutes the front of the hanger, is brought close to the uprights I. The doubled-under part constitutes the hanger J, the members of which are substantially parallel with the horizontal rearward extensions K, although this particular arrangement and relation of these parts is not absolutely essential. It will thus be observed that the upright parts I of the wire constitute the holder for retaining the pad on the base and the doubledunder part J is the hanger for the used sheets, these parts being connected by the horizontal parts or extensions K.

The hanger is elevated sufficiently to permit the used sheets to'hang free from the desk on which the calendar stands, and the front of the hanger H is located close to the up rights I, but. without interfering with the transfer of the sheets from the pad to the hanger as it is used each day. The hanger is large enough to accommodate the entire pad, and the arrangement is such that the used sheets will be retained on file in regular order and good condition until all the sheets have been transferred, and then the used'pad may be replaced by a new pad and the old pad laid aside or destroyed.

The hanging used sheets of the pad occupy but little room, and the calendar therefore takes up only a small area of desk-space, and it is obvious that the calendar can be moved about at pleasure without in any way disarranging the sheets or mixing up the used and the unused sheets, these being maintained separate and distinct from each other at all times. When a sheet has been used, it is carried up on the uprights and back over the extensions and into its place on the hanger, where it is held in alinement with the other used sheets as long as desired.

The arrangement of the numeral designating the day of the month and miniature calendars of the preceding and succeeding months on each sheet is of great convenience for reference, and the yearly calendar, which may-be printed on the first sheet F, is always in plain view; but it will be understood that I do not restrict myself in any way to a calendar-pad printed in any particular manner, although I have found the arrangement and character of the printed information as herein described to be, of especial value and convenience. The construction of the base A may also be varied-for example, the top thereof may be horizontal, so that the pad will lie flat instead of inclined, as shown, and the combined holder and hanger device may be made of two pieces of wire instead of' one, the upper endsbeing bent to form a front substantially like the front II illustrated to prevent the used sheets from becoming disarranged.

The lower ends of the holder are passed through openings in the base and provided with thumb-nuts L, so that the holder and hanger device can be removed from the base and a new calendar arranged in position at any time.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a base for supporting a calendar-pad, of a holder to retain the pad in place on the base, and a hanger to receive the used sheets from the pad and support them in a hanging vertical position behind the unused sheets of the pad, substantially as described.

2. The combination with abase for supporting a calendar-pad, of a holder to retain the pad in place on the base, and a hanger arranged above and behind the pad to receive the used sheets from the pad andsnpport them in a vertical swinging position behind the pad, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a base for supporting a calendar-pad, of a combined holder and hanger device connected to the base and adapted to hold the unused sheets of the pad in a substantially flat position on the base and support the used sheets in a substantially vertical swinging position behind the unused sheets, substantially as described.

4. The combination with abase for supporting a calendar-pad, of a combined holder and hanger made of a single piece of wire having its ends removably connected to the base and adapted to hold the unused sheets of the pad in a substantially flat position on the baseand support the used sheets of the pad in a substantially Vertical swinging position behind the unused sheets, substantially as described.

5. The combination with abase for supporting a calendar-pad, of a combined holder and hanger device comprising uprights leading from the base, horizontal connecting parts, and a doubled under part constituting a hanger for the used sheets of the pad, substantially as described.

6. The combination with a base for support ing-a calendar-pad, of a combined holder and hanger device made of a single piece of wire having its ends removably connected to the base and comprising uprights leading from the base and constituting the holder, ahanger located in rear of the holder, and substantially horizontal connecting parts above the hanger and joining the holder and the hanger together, substantially as described.

7. The combination with a base forsupportits ing a calendar-pad, of a combined holder and under the horizontal extensions, substantially hanger device made of a single piece of Wire as described. removably connected to the base and comn prising parallel uprights constituting the 1 WILLIAM E 5 holder, horizontal rearward extensions from WVitnesses:

the upper ends of the uprights, and a hanger \VM. 0. BELT, formed by doubling the looped end of the Wire 0. L. WVOOD.

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