US746225A - Clock-calendar. - Google Patents

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2N0. 746,225- PATENTED DEC. 8, 1903.

J. L. WOODS. CLOCK CALENDAR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 5, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Mam/1a by C 2 i Jhfom e ys UNITED STATES Patented December 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CLOCK-CALENDAR.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,225, dated December 8, 1903.

Application filed January 5,1903. Serial No.137,837. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, Mean LEROY Woons, a citizen of the United States, residing atJacksboro, in the county of Jack and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Clock-Calendar, of which the following is aspecification. My invention relates to calendars, and is especially designed to be attached to a clockcasing and actuated by the clock mechanism, and has for its object to produce a device of this character which will be simple of construction, efficient in Operation, adapted'to be readily attached to the casing of any clock, and will be inexpensive to manufacture.

The invention comprises the details of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of the calendar as attached to the clock-casing to be actuated by the clock mechanism. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the calendar detached from the clock-casing. Fig. 3 is a detailed view showing the manner of building up the calendar-pad.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates a portion of aclock-casing having an aperture 2, formed therethrough. 3 indicatesa portion of the top face-plate of the clock mechanism, and 4 the hour-hand stud or shaft. These parts may all be of the usual or any desired construction.

In applying my invention I attach to the clock-casing, adjacent to the aperture 2 formed therethrough, a framework 5, comprising, preferably, a sheet-metal strip angularly bent at its end for attachment to the casing. This framework, which constitutes the supporting means for the calendar, preferably extends horizontally from the clock casing and has pivoted thereto a round metal disk 6, which constitutes the base-plate for sustaining the calendar-pad. This disk has its periphery serrated to form teeth 7, adapted to be engaged by a finger 8, formed integral with a horizontal lever 9, also pivoted to the plate 5, as at 10, whereby the disk will be rotated step by step when the lever is actuated. The plate 5 has struck up therefrom suitable metal straps 11, which embrace the lever and sustain the same. The lever projects beyond the framework 5, through the aperture 2, and into the clock-casing in position to be actuated by a finger 12, projecting laterally from the hour-hand shaft. The 0pposite end of the lever is bent over around the periphery of the disk 6 to its face and is formed into a pointer 13.

Attached to the front face of the metal disk 6 is the calendar-pad 14, having a central circular opening formed therein to be seated over metal fingers 15, struck up from the base-plate 6 and adapted when the pad is in position to be bent down over the edge of the same and hold it securely in position on the base-plate. The face of the calendar is subdivided into day-sections, which are numbered in notation to indicate the days of the month, is also lettered opposite the numerals to indicate the days of the week, and is further lettered to indicate the month and year. It is to be especially noted that the day-spaces are subdivided to indicate the forenoon and afternoon.

The calendar-pad, as illustrated in Fig 3, is built up of a plurality of calendar-sheets, one for each month in the year, and the sheets are so arranged one above another that the first day of each succeeding month will follow next in sequence with the last day of the preceding month, so that when the calendar-sheets, which are adapted to be removed at the end of each month, are torn off the day-space for the first of the next month will follow in proper order. The sheets of the pad may of course be secured together in any suitable manner; but I prefer to form at the peripheral edge of each sheet radiallyprojecting strips adapted to be folded over the face of the overlying sheet and gummed thereto until the entire pad of twelve sheets is built up.

The operation of the device is as follows: The framework being properly attached to the clock-casing and the calendar-pad secured in position thereon, the pin 12, projecting from the hour-hand shaft, will as the shaft rotates engage the end of the lever 9 and carry the same down, as indicated in dotted lines, thus causing the finger 8, which is in engagement with a tooth 7, to rotate the calendar the distance of one tooth, which will move the calendar onehalf of a day-space, thus indicating the forenoon and afternoon, it being understood, of course, that the hourhand will actuate the lever every twelve hours.

16 is a Weight atached to the lever at its outer end for the purpose of positively returning the same to its normal position after being released by the finger 12.

It is to be understood that I do not limit or confine myself to the details herein shown and described, as various changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit or scope of my invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is The combination with a clock-casing and hour-hand shaft, of a sustaining-frame attached to the clock-casing externally of the same, a disk pivoted to the frame and provided with teeth, a calendar-pad associated with the disk, a lever pivoted to the frame, projecting into the casing, and actuated by the hour-hand shaft, a pointerassociated with the lever for indicating the dates upon the calendar, a finger carried by the lever and engaging the teeth for rotating the calendarcarrying disk, and a Weight associated With the lever for returning the same to normal position.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JESSE LEROY WOODS.

Witnesses:

F. S. GROWER, J. R. J ONES.

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