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PA'TENTED MAY 21, 1907. J.B.TREAT. GALBNDAB. AIPLIUATION FILED FEB. 2,1905. Y 7

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JAMES E. TREAT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CALENDAR.

Patented May 21, 1907.

No. 854,127. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 2, 1905. Serial No. 248,816.

secured. The upper portion of said back A may contain advertisement or other matter in the usual manner.

B represents one of the monthly indicator sheets containing at the top. the month and year and week-days in the ordinary manner. Each monthly indicator sheet is numbered from the bottom upward in weekly rows, each of which may be separated from the next one above, by a horizontal perforation O, as shown.

In practice I make on one side of each monthly sheet B, near the left edge, a perforated line D extending from the lower portion of the sheet to near the upper portion thereof so as to form solid portions which can be secured to one another. By such an arrangement during transportation, the horizontally [0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. TREAT, a citizen of the United States, and a'resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in calendars and it is composed of a series of detachable monthly sheets or pages which I term the indicators, with days numbered from the bottom upward and perforated or creased in parallel rows to enable weekly portions to be detached from the remaining portion of the foremost monthly indicator sheet, and in a like manner from the successive monthly sheets according to the month and week to be in sight after a portion of the indicator page has been detached. In connection with such monthly indicator sheets, numbered in weeks and dates from the bottom upward, I use intermediate auxiliary sheets preferably of a contrasting color on which are printed dates or numbers corresponding to the dates or numbers of the indicator sheets and adapted to be detached from the said indicator sheet at the end of the expiration of a month. The said intermediate sheet serves to conceal the next monthly indicator sheet in the series, after a weekly portion, or portions, of the indicator sheet has been detached, so as to leave only the unexpired portions of the indicator sheet in sight. The intermediate sheet being numbered correspondingly with the indicator sheet in front serves to show the dates of the weeks already expired, as indicated by the re moval of the lowest remaining horizontal strip of the indicator sheet, as will hereinafter be more fully shown and described, reference being had to the accompanying; drawings, where- Figure 1. is a front elevation of my improved calendar, in its normal condition, before any portion thereof has been detached; Fig. 2 is a similar front elevation showing a portion of the first indicator sheet removed, and. showing the intermediate sheet in the se- Fig. 3 is an end. view seen ed from being accidentally ripped off until the calendar is placed or hung in position for use. The little edge strip beyond the may be pulled off before the horizontal portions of the sheet B are from time to time removed. Although such protector beyond the left of the perforated line D is serviceable during transportation or handling of the calendar, yet the same may be dispensed with.

For the purpose of holding the right hand edge of the sheet B connected during transportation, I prefer to limit the perforations O at O, a short distance from the said right hand edge of the sheet B. Such protection of the sheets B is preferable but if so desired the rows of perforations C may extend horizontally the whole width of each sheet B, without departing from the essence of my invention.

E represents one of the intermediate sheets preferably of a contrasting color to the indicator sheets. Such sheet E is preferably printed with numbers 0, c, corresponding in position to the numbers of the indicator sheets shown in Fig. 2, for the purpose stated. If so desired suitable advertisements, pictorial, or otherwise, may be printed on each intermediate sheet underneath the rows of the date numbers.

What I desire to secure by and claim is 1. A calendar comprising a plurality of monthly indicator sheets numbered from the bottom upward in horizontally-extending rows and having a plurality of horizontallyextending weakened lines starting at a point from one side edge and terminating at a ries in sight, and Letters Patent from X in Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

In practice I prefer to use a plate or back A, as usual in calendars to which the indicator and intermediate sheets are detachably divided portions of said sheet B are preventline D point removed from the other side edge, said weakened lines interposed between the horizontally-extending rows of numbers and di-v viding the indicator sheets into a plurality of weekly portions, combined with a plurality of bodily-detachable intermediate sheets corre sponding ly numbered to the indicator sheets and adapted to expose horizontally-extending rows of numbers corresponding to the numbers of detached Weekly portions.

2. A calendar comprising a plurality of indicator sheets bearing numbers for the days, each sheet having a plurality of weakened lines for severing days that are past, in combination with a plurality of intermediate sheets, each detachable bodily and bearing I 2 5 allixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES E. TREAT.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 854,127.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 854E,127,'granted May 21, 1907 upon the application of James E. Treat, of Boston, Massachusetts for an improvement in Calendars, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction, as

follows: In line 21, page 2, the semicolon after the word sheet" should be stricken out and inserted after the word sheet in line 23, same page; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 16th day of July, A. 1)., 1907. I

- o. o. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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