Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
  • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
  • B42D5/00—Sheets united without binding to form pads or blocks
  • B42D5/04—Calendar blocks
  • B42D5/046—Suspension devices therefor

Definitions

• the invention relates to a calender or similar information carrier to be hung on a wall, comprising a number of sheets which can be turned over a connecting element to which each sheet is connected with one straight edge, whereby said connecting element comprises two spaced-apart parts, so that a suspension plate positioned between said sheets can extend between the two parts of said connecting element to beyond the stacked-together sheets, with an attaching part, so that the calender can be hung on the wall via said attaching part.
• calender used hereafter is also meant to include other information carriers which can be hung in the manner -according to the invention.
• a calender of this type which is often presented to people as a promotional gift, and which, in addition to its calender function, in that case generally contains
• a calender of the present kind substantially consists of a number of stacked-together sheets, said sheets being rectangular, for example, whereby the sheets are interconnected at one edge, in such a manner that they can be turned over in the same manner as pages of a book.
• Each side may thereby contain the information of one week or one month, so that 26 or 6, as the case may be, stacked- together sheets will suffice for the entire year.
• interconnected may for example consist of a spiral metal wire or of a metal wire which is bent in a different manner to extend through holes in the sheets, as is also generally known from writing pads, for example.
• the metal wire may thereby zigzag within a cylindrical surface, which is indicated as "Wire-O" ® . Because the calender is to be hung on a wall, whereby the connecting element is positioned at the upper side, said connecting element consists of two parts positioned on either side of the centre of a cathetus of the stacked-together sheets, so that a suspension element can be provided between said two parts.
• Calenders are known wherein the suspension element consists of a metal wire which is bent to a U shape, whereby the two ends of the wire are bent to either side, being in line with one another.
• the calender comprising two spiral metal wires as the connecting element, for example, may be hung by having the ends of said suspension element extend into each one of the two spiral metal wires, whilst the U-shaped part can be hung on a nail in the wall.
• the suspension element consists of a plate-shaped element, hereinafter called suspension plate, which can be placed between the sheets of the calender, and which comprises an attaching part which extends between the two parts of said connecting element to beyond the stacked-together sheets.
• a suspension plate of this type must be made of sufficiently strong material, plastic or cardboard, for example, to enable proper hanging, whereby it must be considered that the calender is removed every week or every month during the time it is used, and is hung back after sheets have been turned or after the calender itself has been turned.
• the object of the invention is to provide a calender which can be made to look very attractive and which can be advantageously provided with commercial information and which is relatively cheap to produce.
• the calender is provided with a suspension plate, which is dimensioned such that it extends beyond the edge of the stacked-together sheets of the calender in several places.
• a suspension plate which is dimensioned such that it extends beyond the edge of the stacked-together sheets of the calender in several places.
• the various parts of the suspension plate extending beyond the sheets may comprise illustrations and/or shapes which are attuned to each other.
• the calender may for example be in the form of a plan view of a crate of beer of a particular brand, whereby the calender sheets lie on top of the illustrated crate of beer, as it were.
• the suspension plate has both the shape and the appearance of a crate of beer m plan view.
• the two sides of said suspension plate may be used for different
• suspension plate may comprise a folded part, which does not extend beyond said sheets in folded condition and which -does extend beyond said sheets m unfolded condition. This provides the user with an even greater number of options, whilst the presence or absence of a particular part of the suspension plate may furthermore be used as a sign, for example to attract attention or to indicate a particular condition.
• suspension plate may be connected to said sheets by means of said connecting element.
• suspension plate alternately in order to be able to display the successive sides of the sheets.
• the invention furthermore relates to a method for hanging on a wall a calender or similar information carrier
• Figure 1 and Figure 2 each show an embodiment which is only -illustrated in perspective view.
• the embodiments are provided with a stack of twelve paper or cardboard sheets 1, whereby each sheet is on either side provided with information relating to a particular month of a year. Besides this information said side comprises room for making notes beside the various days, as may be done in a diary.
• the stacked sheets 1 are interconnected by a connecting element which consists of two spiral metal wires 2,3 3 on either side of the centre of the upper edge of the stack of sheets 1. Each of the metal wires 2,3 extends through a row of holes provided in each of the sheets 1.
• the stack of paper sheets 1 hangs over a carboard
• suspension plate 4 as it were, of which plate a part 5 (attaching part) extends between the metal wires 2,3 to beyond the stack of sheets 1.
• Said attaching part 5 is provided with a hole 6, by which the suspension plate 4 and the stack of sheets 1 attached thereto can be hung on a wall, for example on a nail.
• Suspension plate 4 may thereby be provided at a random place between the stack of sheets 1, but preferably in the centre. It is also possible for suspension plate 4 to be provided with an edge which is positioned at the same place as the upper edge of the stack of sheets 1, whereby said edge of suspension plate 4 may also be provided with a series of holes through which the metal wires 2,3 are provided.
• suspension plate 4 is in the form of the plan view of a crate of beer, so that the calender according to this embodiment may be distributed by the beer producer to promote his product.
• suspension plate 4 and the location of hole 6 must be such that the stack of sheets 1 can hang straight on a nail in the wall.
• the stack of paper or cardboard sheets 1 hangs over a plastic or coardboard suspension plate 4 in the shape of a T-shirt hanging on a clotheshanger.
• the hook of said clotheshanger thereby forms the attaching part 5 of
• suspension plate 4 extends beyond the stack of sheets 1 in such a manner that text and/or illustrations can be provided thereon for advertising purposes, as is also done on a T-shirt, for example.
• a very attractive product may be obtained by using the invention, which is advantageous with products of the present kind.
• the above-described embodiments of the invention are merely to be considered as examples, since a great many different embodiments are possible, which are all based on the same inventive idea.

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• 1995
  • 1995-09-25 NL NL1001278A patent/NL1001278C2/nl not_active IP Right Cessation
• 1996
  • 1996-09-18 AU AU71464/96A patent/AU7146496A/en not_active Abandoned
  • 1996-09-18 WO PCT/NL1996/000365 patent/WO1997011853A1/nl not_active Application Discontinuation
  • 1996-09-18 EP EP96932851A patent/EP0958145A1/en not_active Ceased

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