US986416A - Advertising adding-pocket. - Google Patents

Description

G. T. YOUNG.

ADVERTISING ADDING POCKET.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 30, 1909.

' Patented Mar. '7, 1911.

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GEORGE T. YOUNG, F STONEIIAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 RICE & HUTCHINS,

INCORPORATED, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHU- SETTS.

ADVERTISING ADDING-POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 7, 1911.

Application led August 30, 1909.` Serial No. 515,357.

`citizen of the United States, residing at a specification, like letters on the drawings Stoneham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,bave invented an Improvement in Advertising Adding-Pockets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is

representing like parts.

My invention is an adding novelty consisting of an adding or computing device in the form of a pocket or envelop.

'In carrying out my invention I have availed myself of the main principles and mechanism of the old disk adder or subtractor, and have incorporated the same in a new arrangement and combination of parts which greatly facilitates the use thereof and especially promotes its value as an advertising device. Instead of having the numbered disk or rotarj, wheel mounted on a relatively stationary disk or indicating member', I have inclosed the rotary number disk within a pocket or envelop which is closed on three sides so that the user cannot either purposely or by accident get at the disk except at the single open side. By this means the user is enabled to grasp the apparatus in the left hand conveniently without any possibility of disturbing, or interfering with the proper manipulation of, the operation of the computing mechanism, the open side of the embracing pocket or envelop and the projecting edge of the number-disk being in position to be engaged conveniently by the right hand, the movementl of which is stopped by striking against the closed end portions of the pocket or envelop when the disk is rotated. 'lhe envelop at its open edge is provided with a `stationary indicator scale, and the periphery of the disk projects and is notched or marked, or both notched and marked, for manipulation with reference to said scale. n

A further feature of improvement resides in providing definite finger stops at each end of thc stationary indicator scale, so that the operator simply selects the notch of the disk opposite a given number on said scale and then moves the same downward until halted by said stop. l

A further advantage of the pocket or envelopis that it not only rotects the disk so that the device will stand) the roughusage to which it is subjected, especially when used as a childs adding card, but the pocket is purposely provided to enable the advertiser to insert a circular for impressing upon the recipient the goods in connection with which the device is issued as an advertising novelty.

Further advantages of construction and use will appear more at length in the course of the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. showing the device in its preferred embodiment.

In the drawings, Figure l represents my adding novelty in side elevation; Figs. f2 and 3 are transverse sectional views thereof on the lines 2-2 and 2-3, Fig. 1 respectively; and Fig. 4 is a side view of the number disk or wheel.

The apparatus is preferably made from thin, tough and comparatively stiff cardboard, the inclosing pocket or envelop which constitutes the stationary portion of the computing device being creased along the back line l to constitute the back edge of the pocket and having its front side 2 and back 3 glued or otherwise fastened together at their opposite ends as indicated by the dotted line 4, so as to leave the third or right hand side or edge 5 of the pocket open. Secured at approximately the center of the front side 2 by any suitable means as by an eyelet 6 is a disk or number wheel 7 whose periphery projects slightly beyond the open edge or side of the pocket as clearly shown in Fig. l. pocket is provided .with a relatively short curved portion S cut on an arc concentric with the center G and the periphery of the .disk and corresponding in length to an in dicator scale 9. At the opposite ends of said scale 9 and said are shaped portion 8 the edges of the pocket are cut obliquely to form finger stops 10, 11, the adjacent edge portions being preferably cut out to the re spective ends of the pocket on a slight curve as indicated at 12 to permit the thumb or finger of the hand, as the case may be, to

Said front side or edge of therest against the same for steadying the hand,

as clearly shown in Fig. 1, where the thumb is shown in steadying engagement lagainst said thumb rest 12 while the finger is engaging the wheel for the purpose of rotating the latter, the thumb of the operating hand pressing in one direction while the holding hand engages the closed edges or g p. f Y 986,4 16

preferably the-'corner of the pocket in oppo- The apparatus can readily be sent by mail sition to said pressure, see Fig. 1. lust as it is w1thout serious danger of in- The card is divided into such equidistant )ury and, being made of comparatively stiff 65 peripheral Yportions asma be'desired, prefcardboard, whose sides naturally cling to- "ierably 'one hundred, and7 correspondingly ward each other by reason of the 'fact that numbered as shown in Fig. 4, and is intheir end ed are. sealed flat against each dented so as to provide a tooth or projection other a sma l circular or similar educative 13 opposite each number, and the scale 9, 01 Ot er matter'wlll not readlly vdro out 70 is also provided with a corresponding set of from between the back 3 and the disk ,but l figures similarly s aced so as to `coperate to make this certain, such matter may readwith the figures o the card, a set of marks ily be retainedbyf'a usual paper clip 17, the `14:, 15, being also provided to aid the user in circular being indicated at 18, Fig. 3. manipulating the card, the marks 14 being Having described my invention, what I 75 on the fixed scale and the marks 15 on the claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 15 rotary disk or number wheel. Patent is,

lAt some portion of the front side 2 of the 1. -An advertising computing pocket, conpocket in frontof the numbers` on the disk, I sisting of an inclosin'g pocket Opin at one provide a reading openin 16of a size caedge onl a peripherally num red and ,80 pable of showing one numer or radial desnotched isk ivotallv secured on the inner 20 ignation of the number disk, preferably loface of the ront side of said pocket and cated so as to permit the reading ofthe numinclosed within the same excepting a relaber through said reading o ening horizontively -short arc shaped ortion thereof at tally when the card is helld as shown lin said open ed e of the et, said pocket be- 85 Fi 1. ing provided with a correspondingly arc The disk or wheel 7 is secured only to the shaped scale at said ed e, terminating at one front sidel2 of the pocket-and not tothe back end in a finger stop w ereby the finger en- 3 thereof, thereby providing at the rear of ging a notch of said disk 'when turning the said disk a rece tacle for receiving a circultter is stopped upon meeting said finger 90 lar, picture car or directions for using the stop,` and a `si ht aperture adjacent the apparatus, said back 3 being capable of closed portion o said pocket, through which springing away from the disk 7 and front one number at a ,time of the disk may be side 2 for this purpose as indicated in dotviewed, said ocket having its back ortion ted lines Fig. 2. This facilitates the main distendable om its front side an from 95 object of my'invention, which .is a part of said disk for receiving an advertising or an educating scheine to be used in connecinstruction card.

tion with a system of educating stimuli is; 2. An advertising com uting pocket, consued with relation to the Well nown Eduvsisting of an inclosingpoc et open at one edge cator slices, thereby placing in the hands of onl a peri herally numbered and notched 100 children particularly an educative adding disliI pivotal secured on the inner face of 40 and subtracting device and also vdirections the front sidi/e of said pocket and inclosed and other instructive matter contained in the within the saine excepting a relatively short receptacle portion of the pocket which emarc shaped ortion thereof at said open edge braces the adding Wheel. of the poc et, said pocket being 'provided 105 In use, the toothed wheel is moved until with a correspondingly arc sha d scale at the number which is to be put down to start said ed e, terminating at one endein a finger the same appears in the sight opening 16. stop werebyvthe finger engaging a notch Theieupon any number oii the scale 9 can of said disk when turnin the lat-ter is be added to said figure in thel sight opening stopped upon meeting said nger stop, anda 110 by moving the teeth on the wheel which is opsight aperture adjacent the closed portion of posite the desired figure on the scale downto said pocket, through which one number at a the finger stop 11, which corresponds to zero time of the disk may be viewed, Said pocket on the scale, the result of said addition then having a stifily yielding back secured at the appearing in the opening. Any number on ends of said open side of the pocket under 115 the scale can be subtracted by moving the tendency to return t0 its normally flat positooth opposite the zero on the scale up to the tion when sprung laterally. figure of the scale which is to be subtracted. In testimony whereof, I have signed my Because of the shape and construction of the nameto this specification, in the presence of c advertising envelop, only that portion of the two subscribing witnesses.

Wheel can be engaged which is required for I GEORGE T. YOUNG. doing the adding or subtractinggill the rest i Witnesses:

ofthe wheel .being entirely protected by the I M. J. SPALDING,

`4` `inclosing pocket. WM. J. Pixis

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