US978962A - Memorandum device. - Google Patents

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Patented Dec. 2o, 1910.

NVENTOR HIS ATTORNYS F. VAN ANDEN. MEMORANDUM DEVICE. AEPLMATION FILED PEB 2s, 1909 WITNESSES'.

#FRANK van Aupair, or NEW YoRK, N. Y.

MEMORANDUM' DEVICE.

i To all whom 'itmoy concern.' y

l3e it known that I, FRANK VAN NnEN, a citizen of the United StatesA ot AmericaV7 and a resident of New York city, county of New Yorlr,'and State of New' York, have invented certain new and useiul Improvements in Memorandum Devices, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

forming a part thereof.

My invention relates t memorandum devices, and consists in a novel form of perpetual card calendar` arranged for receiving memorandum slips, including a peculiar form of tray for holding the cards, the inemoranduni slips, and a reserve supply of blank slips for memorandum purposes.

The device'is intended torbe used upon' a desk in plain sight of the user and is so arranged that day by day-the date of the current day appears prominently before the' user with the current memoranda in' direct proximity. thereto, while the Asubsequent dates for a redeternuned ieriod a ear in less prominence in regular succession, the

memoranda corresponding to the succeeding dates beingl successively'arranged with relation thereto. rllie tray is preferably coinposed of a metal ,'s'taiifiipiiig,y the construction whereofjs reduced to an extremely simple form so that the whole device mayA be. very inexpensively produced'.

In order that my invention may be fully understood I will now proceed to describe an embodiment thereof, having reference to the accompanying drawings' illustrating the saine, and will then point out the novel features in the claim. y

In the drawings: Figure 1 is aV view in perspective of a memorandum device embodying my, invention. Fig. 2 is av view in transverse section therethrough. Fig. 3 is a top view of the tray with the cards and memorandum slips removed. Fig. 4t is a de tail viev7 on a reduced scale of a form oi blank from which the tray may be produced. l The tray comprises a base 5, two end walls 6-6, front flanges 7, and rear flanges 8. As stated, these parts may conveniently be formed oi' alsingle blank of the form shown in Fig. Il. rl`he flange portions 7 andS are notched in the blank, as at 16, so as to form mitered corners when the blank is bent up upon the broken lines shown in Fig. 4t. The rear ilanges 8 of the end walls 6 may be connected together by a connecting bar 9, if

y Speccation of Letters Patent.l ,l Ptented Dem 20 1910., Application le February 26, 1909. Serial No. 480,198. f

desired, Ithe said barebeing connected to the flanges by any suitable'means,-asbyrivets l0: If the tray is otherwisev still enough this bar `may not be found to be necessary, but the employment very thinmaterial tb e `used :t'or the tray.

f the bar permitsa The tray is divided into three compartments i byv means of lugs'll-lvwhich project inwardly'from the, end walls 6. These lugs may be convendently` formed i -up portions of the end walls, as is clearly illustrated inthe drawings, thereby avoiding the expense attendant upon the use of eXtra. parts.

lugs lland the front flanges 7 These call endar cards have a main body portion .which -inay conveniently be rectangular in shape` and of a-suitablesize to be received easily within the tray, and supported against forward or rearward displacement by the flanges I and lugs '1l respectively,` and a tabportion 14 which projects upward from the top edge thereof. These tabs are arranged by stamping f y 1 ,fl I 70 Afplurahty of calendar cards' 18 are dis` i posed 1n the compartment defined by the instaggered relation in successive cards in a` manner well known in card systems, so that all of them will be readily visible to the user. I may employ as many cards as I nd convenient,-prei`erably I employ thirty-one such cards, so that there is one forevery day 'of any month. Each card bears upon the body portion thereof a large character representing the day of any month, and upon its gab a small character indicating the same ate. I

` tion in the tray and placed to the rear ofv the set so that the rearthereof rests against 'the lugs il. The numeral which is contained upon the body portion of a second card, then appears to view in order to indicate the succeeding day of the month. Memorandum slips may be located between the successive cards, the slip containing the memoranda for each particular date, being disposed immediately behind the card bearing that date. For the convenience of the user I have provided a pad 15. of blank slips which is contained in the .rear compartment, namely that limited by the rear flanges 8 and thelugs 12. When'it is desired to make a In Fig. I the cards are so arranged asto memoraduxn forV any date ,thispad may be same being the compartment limited by the lugs 1l and l2. B tained in this compartment, at intervals of proper position as their dates approach.

he employment of the large numeral on the body portion of the card prevents there being any possibility of confusion as to the date of the current day, such as mightfollow if the small numerals on the tabs were relied upon for this purpose, the form of the tray being such as to expose the bod)7 portion of the card for the purpose of bringing the said current date into prominence. The face of the card may also be used for advertising purposes, if desired, -thereby adding to the commercial value ofthe device.

What I claim is:

A tray for a memorandum device of the character described comprising a base, end Walls, and front and rear flanges, all struck up from a single blank, the end walls having inwardly projecting portions formed inter'- mediate their side edges whereby to divide the tray into a plurality of compartments, and a bar for connectingthe rear flanges together.

FRANK VAN ANDEN.

removed from its compartment, the memorandum made on the front slip, such slip' then removed from the pad and placed to the rear of the card containing the proper date; and the pad then returned to its position ready for further use. Should it be desired t-o make a memorandum for any date more than, say, thirty days ahead the/memorandum may be made upon a slip,` the date being also noted on the said slip and the Slip then placed in the cent-ral compartment, the

y examining the slips cononce a month, more or less, and transferring them to their proper positions between the calendar cards 13 as the date of thesaid slip approaches within the thirty day limit (or Whatever limit is imposed by the cards employed), the said memorandum slips Will be in 'their proper positions as the dates thereof are reached. I

From the foregoing it will be seen that I have provided a very simple form of desk memorandum device, the same including av Witnesses: perpetualcalendar. Memoranda made many l D. HOWARD HAYwoon, days ahead are gradually brought to a F. B. Gnavns.

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