US758758A - Calendar. - Google Patents

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No. 758,758. PATBNT'ED MAY 3, 1964. G. B. KBPLINGER.

CALENDAR;

APPLICATION FILED 0013.17. 190.2.`

- Patented May 3, 1904.

- UNITED 'STATES PATENT OEEICE,v

CEoReE n. KEPLINGER, E CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.v f

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 758,758, dated-May), 1904.: i

` Application nea october 17, 1962. smal No. 127,639. uit' man1.)

To JZ whom, it r11/my concern..- A

Be it known that I, (w EORGEB. KEPLING un, a 'citizen of the United States,.residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook andState of l llinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendars, (Case No. 3,) of which the following is a specification.,-

My invention relates to calendars, and the object is to provide a simple and novel form of'calendar that may be carried in the pocket .of the user and that will enable the user to readily determine the day of the month and the day of the week upon which any given date in any month feller will fall.

I'n the accom panying drawings, which illus trate my invention, Figure 1 is a plan View of a calendar constructed in accordance with my invention,

which the other parts are assembled and car' ried. The plate is provided in its body with a central circular depression orwell a, provided by stamping,r the metal down from its frontface, and has a band a-'surrounding the well. rl`he outeredge of the plate is provided with a iange L2 of greater depth than the well. 'l`he well receives a rotatable disk B,

which is provided adjacent its edge with a 'line of figures from the numeral "1 (preferably represented by an arrow or pointer) to 31, designating the days oi the month. The disk is of any suitable material, such as Celluloid, and is rotatably confined within the well by any suitable means. In .practice l employ for this purpose a ring fr of suitable material, such celluloid, whose inner edge overhangs the disk B and is turned down, as at fr?, to rest upon the same. The ring n is Fig'. 2 is a sectional view on\ the line 2 2 ot' Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail plan alooking-glass.

or crimped in a suitable press, The-Hange is caused to clamp over the edge of asuitable part C, which may be any suitable disk carrying advertising matter or may be the rim of The outer edge of the ring a is clamped between the flange afand the part C. y

Adjacent its inneredge the ring a is provided with a series of letters, indicating the sequence of the days of the week, and five sets of these letters are provided, so that when y the dial or'disk is set with the arrow on the numeral 1, indicating the first day of any month', at any letter, indicating the day of the week upon .which the chosen month begins, each of the succeeding numerals up to the number of days contained in that month will be in register with a letter indicating the corresponding day ofthe week. By this means Y a calendar for that month is provided, y

The ring a in practice'ma-y be made wide enough to accommodate any desired printedmatter, s uch'as an advertisement, in addition to the letters indicating the days 'of the week. By reason ofthe letters indicating the days running continuously 'for tive weeks or being greater in number than days in the longest month the user may readily determine the dayA upon which the next succeeding month will begin and set the arrowior the numeral .1

at the letter following the letter corresponding to the last day of vthe-preceding,r month. By this means the calendar becomes perpetual.

In ordeir that the user may determine any day of the week corresponding with a past or fixture date of any month, it is only necessary for him to set the arrow at the day upon whichthe month began, and the calendarthen denotes the days of the week upon which differcnt dates in that month fell or will fall. For expediting the work in this respecta directory stating the da'y of the week upon which the several months began may be provided. This is shown clearly in Fig. l, where the initial days of the various months of the current year are stated. Ylt is understood that thcse'may be multiplied for anynumber of years. the

supported upon the raised band n' of the plate purposelming' to'provide a directory of these A by liu-ans of turning' its outer edge over the. ilangw/fof the plate, to which it is clamped i for one or a series of years.

The device may thecalendan, such as are indiated in the drawconveniently carry directions for the use of ings;

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. A calendar comprising a plate having a well and a band surrounding the well and provided with a fiange at its edge, a rotatable disk in thevwell, and a ring projecting at its inner edge over the disk and having its outer edge engaged with the said'ange, the said disk and ring being provided with complementary symbols designating the days of the week and month. Y

2. A calendai comprising a plate having a central circular well, a band about the well and provided with a ange, a disk rotatably gin with numeralsequal to the-number of days inY the longest month, a ring on the band having its inner edge projecting over the edge of the disk and provided with live sets of letters arranged in the order of the days ofthe week, the outer edge of the ring being clamped to the flange, and the disk bearing a directory indicating the days of the week upon which the months of any year or series of years begin. 1n testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE B. KEPLINGER. Witnesses:

E. MoLrroR, J. McRoBER'rs.

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