US776632A - Diary. - Google Patents

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HOWARD L. WILSON, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,632, dated December 6, 1904:. Application filed December 29,1902. Serial No. 136,980. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LHOWARD L. WVrnson, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Diary, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved loose-leaf pocket-diary requiring but little printing upon the leaves or cards and one in which but few different series of cards are required to cover a year or term of years.

The several drawings illustrating my invention are as follows:

Figure 1 is a face view of the diary with the cover opened and shows the memorandumcards in place in the case (Z. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a face view of the cards removed from the case (Z and so displaced as to show the upper portion of each card. Fig. 4t is a face view of the case (Z; and Fig. 5 is a sectional view of such case, taken along the dotted line 00 1 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a view of the upper portion of one of the cards and shows one way of filling out the blank heading.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, in my diary 1 make use of a case (Z, consisting of a sheet of metal having formed up thereon the L-shaped side pieces (Z and a similar bottom piece (Z, all so proportioned, as indicated, that a suitable number of the cards 0 may be inserted in the case from the top and held therein without to any appreciable extent concealing the memoranda upon the front card in the case or preventing the writing thereon of any desired memorandum.

The cards 0 have tabs 0 so formed on their upper ends that each tab (2 is no wider than one-seventh of the width of the cards a, and such tabs 0 are so displaced laterally that for one series of seven cards, as shown in Fig. 3, all of the tabs will be in view when the cards are in the case (Z, as shown in Fig. 1. The tabs just mentioned are designed to carry letters or suitable abbreviations to indicate the days of the week, each one of the series above mentioned corresponding to a different day. Near the top of the card is printed the name of the day in full corresponding to the indication of the tab 0', connected thereto, followed by a blank space for the insertion of the month and day of the month, followed in turn by the numerals 19, followed by a space for the units and hundreds of the year. It is designed that one or more series of seven cards shall be used in the case (Z at one time and that at the end of each day the card for that day shall be removed and placed in a suitable place for reference and a blank card for the same day of the week he put into the case (Z back of the remaining six cards. Obviously several similar cards may be used for each day instead of one, and the case (Z may be made to accommodate several series of cards instead of one series only.

The case (Z is rigidly secured in any suitable manner to a cover (1. of suitable materiahwhich has a flap arranged to fold over and protect the face of the exposed card and also to pre-- vent the cards 0 from sliding out of the case (Z, so that the diary may be safely carried in the pocket.

It will be noticed that a blank space will be left on each tab at the bottom of the indication thereon and the top edge of the card. This space may be used, as shown in Fig. 6, to indicate the month and day thereof for which the card to be or was used. The manner of filling out the heading of the card is also shown in Fig. 6. It is intended that this shall be done preferably just before the blank card is placed in the ease (Z.

A valuable result of printing the cards, as above described. with only the. names of the days of the week is that only seven different styles of cards are required for all the days of a single year or term of years.

I will now describe one of the preferable methods of using and operating my diary. It will be noticed that the tabs on the cards cover practically oneseventh of the space across the width of the card, wherebyall the cards for the several consecutive days of any one week, beginning with any one day, may be exposed to view and whereby also all of the cards for each day of any number of weeks the top for the insertion and removal of the I are arranged in alinement one behind the other. In using my diary then there may be contained in the carrying-case, say, for instance, twenty-one cards, and one set of seven for one week may be devoted to memorandum of events transpiring on each successive day of the week and another set of seven immediately behind them may be devoted to the next succeeding week and upon which there may be written any appointments that are to be made for the several days of such next succeeding week, and the seven cards standing for still another week may have been used and on them there may have been any memorandum of appointments in the way above indicated and also memorandum of occurrences of the day standing for each,one of such cards when such day arrived. This latter series of cards standing for the days of the preceding week when there has been a desired number of them covering a space of, say, one or two weeks may be removed and put in a suitable receptacle to be used for future reference.

l Vhat I claim isl. A loose-leaf diary consisting in a series of cards having tabs with characters thereon designating a particular and dififerent day of the week and month for the use of each clifferent card in such series, and a case open at cards and arranged to inclose the cards on the back and on their side and bottom edges and for a short distance across the front adjacent to such side and bottom edges and arranged also to expose the face of the first card.

2. A loose-leaf diary consisting in a series of cards having tabs with characters thereon designating a particular and different day of the Week and month for the use of each different card in such series, and a case open at the top for the insertion and removal of the cards and arranged to inclose the cards on the back and on their side and bottom edges and for a short distance across the front adjacent to such side and bottom edges and arranged also to expose the face of the first card, in combination with a flap or cover secured to such case and arranged to fold down over the front of the cards and operating when in that position to retain such cards in such case.

3. A loose-leaf diary consisting in a series of cards having tabs with characters thereon designating a particular and different day of the week and month for the use of each different card, and a case open at the top for the insertion and removal of the cards and arranged to inclose the cards on the back and on their side and bottom edges and for a short distance across the front adjacent to such side and bottom edges and arranged also to expose the face of the first card and the tabs standing for the successive days of any given week beginning with any one day, and with all the tabs standing for any particular'day of the week arranged in alinement behind each other.

4. A loose-leaf diary consisting in a series of cards having tabs with characters thereon designating a particular and difierent day of the Week and month for the use of each different card, and a case open at the top for the insertion and removal of the cards and arranged to inclose the cards on the back and on their side and bottom edges and for a short distance across the front adjacent to such side and bottom edges and arranged also to expose the face of the first card and the tabs standing for the successive days of any given week beginning with any one day, and with all the tabs standing for any particular day of the week arranged in alinement behind each other, in combination with a flap or cover secured to such case and arranged to fold down over the front of the cards and operating when in that position to retain such cards in such case.

HOWARD L. WILSON.

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