US1190967A - Calendar. - Google Patents

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J. N. STACY.

CALENDAR. APPLICATIONTILED MAR. 12' l9l5.

Patented J uly 11, 1916.

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1. N. STACY.

CALENDAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. l2. I9I5.

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JAMES N. STACY, OF YORK, N. Y.

CALENDAR.

. w e e r-., Ya aha- Application filed March 12, 1915. Serial No. 13,891.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMEs N. STACY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to calendars,

and inexpensive device by the use of which dates for a long curately indicated.

The invention seeks to provide a calendar which may be used over a long period of years without necessitating the provision of new calendar sheets and in which the several parts will be so arranged as to be easily and quickly adjusted to correctly announce the days of the week through succeeding months and years.

The invention also seeks to provide a calendar for the stated purpose which will be durable and also sightly.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a "calendar embody ing my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same; Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of a frame for inclosing the sheet containing characters denoting the successive days-of the week and month; Fig.

l is a face v1ew of the calendar with parts broken away and in section; and Figs. 5 and 6 are detail perspective views of portions of the slide indicating years and the guides and I retaining devices for the same.

In the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated what I believe to be the best embodiment of the invention, but it is to be understood that changes may be made in the detailed construction without departlng from thevinvention, which resides in certain novel features hereinafter first fully de- I scribed and then particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a back or base 1 which may conveniently .be a sheet of cardboard of any desired dimensions and which will preferably be faced around its edges with a metal sheathing 2 so as to reinforce the device and guard the edges of the base from wear ordinarily due to long continued use. In one of the longer the base, I provide perforations or edges of other sultable openings through which a suspending ribbon or equivalent device 3 may be inserted. The said suspending deand has for its object the provision of .a simple period of time may be acvice also passes through'the sheathing, as

shown in'Fig. 1 and as will be'readily understood; This ribbongorot-her suspending device may engage over any convenient support upon a wall so that the calendar may be Upon the front or face of the cardboard plateor sheet 1, near the top of the same, I secure guides 4: which may conveniently be tubes of sheet metal or other. material possessing the requisite strength and lightness. The outer ends of these guides may be fitted in pockets 5 formed upon the ends of the sheathing 2, and the innerends of the said guides may be secured to the base by rings, clips or collar-s Gfitted over the guides and inserted through the base 1 and having their ends clenched against the back of the same. One of the guides 4 is constructed with a longitudinal slot 7 and in the said guides is fitted a slide 8 having at one end a handle in the form of a pin 9 projecting through the said slot 7. It will be readily noted from the drawings that the said pin or handle plays between the ring or clip 6 and the outer end of the tubular guide so that the said clip or collar 6 constitutes a stop to limit the inward movement of the slide.

' Upon the said slide'8, I print, paint or otherthe two guides 4, said number, read in connection with the number upon the end of the unslotted guide, which is 19 inthe present drawings, will denote thev number of the year. In the present instance, the number 1915 is thus displayed, and it will be understood that the several parts are to be so proportioned that the slide will accommodate numbers suiiicient for one hundred years, al-

though the calendar may be made for a shorter period. At the end of each year, the slide will be shifted slightly toward the right in the arrangement illustrated, and at the end of the year 1999, the slide will be moved to display 00, while the number 19 upon the unslotted guide will be removed and the number 20 substituted therefor, thus permitting the display of the number 2000, as will be readily understood.

Below the guides 4, I mount guides 11 which may be similar in all respects to the guides 4, but will have their inner ends preferably spaced a slightly greater distance apart. A slide 12 is mounted in these guides, and this slide has displayed in any convenient manner upon its outer face the names of the month, and it will be readily understood that the slide may be shifted so as to bring the name of any month to display position between the guides and will be shifted at the beginning of each month. This slide obviously may be perpetual inasmuch as the months of the year always come in the same order and the names of the months are fixed.

Below the guides 11, I provide guides 13, and these guides 13 are both unslotted tubes. The inner ends of these guides, however, are spaced apart a distance corresponding to the width of a date sheet 14 mounted in any convenient manner upon the face of the plate 1 below the said guides, as illustrated. A slide 15, which is mounted in the guides 13, has displayed upon its front face the initials of the days of the week, and these initials are spaced apart exactly the same distances as are the columns of figures upon the date sheet 14. Two sets of initials are provided upon the slide 15, and a pin or handle 16 projects from the slide between the two sets. The date sheet 14 may be a printed paper secured upon the face of the plate 1 by an adhesive or it may be of more substantial and permanent material secured in any convenient manner to the said plate 1. The essential characteristic of this date sheet is a series of numbers running from 1 to 31 and arranged in seven vertical columns and read in numerical order in horizontal rows beginning at the upper left hand corner of the sheet. It will be readily understood that the numbers may be printed or otherwise displayed directly upon the face of the plate 1, but it is essential that they be arranged in the manner illustrated and just set forth.

The slide 15 will be adjusted so that the initial corresponding to that day of the week upon which the first day of the month falls will appear directly over the numeral 1 and the numbers for succeeding days will respectively appear under the proper initials. It is necessary to provide two sets of initials which are arranged in exactly the same order so that whether the first day of the month falls upon the first, the last or any intermediate day of the week, initials corresponding to the seven days of the week may be displayed between the ends of the guides 13. The stop pin or handle 16, being located between the two sets of initials, may be easily grasped and will not interfere with the reading of the calendar in any way. As it may engage against the end of either guide tube 13, either set of initials may be brought into position over the calendar sheet or parts of the two sets of initials may be brought to display position so as to adjust the device for the proper reading.

To protect the date sheet 14: against defacement, I prefer to secure a frame 17 around the edges thereof, and this frame will carry a sheet 18 of transparent material through which the numbers may be read and by which the lodgment of dirt or other matter on the date sheet or the defacement of the sheet through accident or other causes will be prevented. The frame 17 is illustrated as having points 19 struck from its rear sides which are adapted to pass through the plate 1 and be clenched against the back of the frame so as to secure the frame in position. In the lower side of the frame is provided a longitudinal slot 20, and a pointer 21 is extended through and plays in the said slot. This pointer is provided with a longitudinal slot 22 which receives a set-screw 23 mounted in the base plate 1 so that the pointer is slidably and pivotally mounted upon the set-screw and may be moved so that its tapered inner end 24 will be caused to rest upon the numeral denoting the day of the week and month. The outer end of the pointer 21 may be bent laterally, as indicated at 25, to form a handle, or a handle of any other preferred type may be pro vided.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that I have provided a very simple calendar which may be manufactured at a low cost of durable materials and which may be readily manipulated to indicate dates for a long period. The several slides may be constructed of sheet metal so that they may be easily adjusted without liability of destruction by use, and the necessity of providing a calendar at the beginning of each succeeding year will be overcome.

The date sheet, in this calendar, is perpetual, and it is not necessary to change the same at the beginning of each month.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is In a calendar, alined guides having their inner ends spaced apart, one of said guides being provided upon its face at its inner end with relatively permanent characters indicating a part of the number of a year, and l a slide having upon one facea series of characters each indicating a part of the number of a year, the slide being slidably and adjustably fitted within both of said guides and bridging the space between the inner ends of the said guides, theslide being designed to be slid by successive steps from the first mentioned guide into the other guide whereby to successively expose at the space 10 between the inner ends of the guides the characters comprising the series thereon in position directly opposite and close to the characters upon the first mentioned guide.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES N. STACY. [L. 5.]

Witnesses I CHAS. S. GAUBERT, JOHN KLINGEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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