US1266499A - Calendar. - Google Patents

Description

A. LECKEY.

CALENDAR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I. 191s.

Patented May14,1918.

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ALEXANDER LECKEY, F CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

CALENDAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led September 1, 1.916. Serial No. 118,105.

may be utilizedfor a number of years, in-l stead of being discarded at the expiration of a calendar year.

Another object of the invention resides in a perpetual calendar having peculiar features of construction whereby the same may y be conveniently set to disclose a proper date.

In carrying out the invention use is made.

of a movable date sheet designed to be reciprocated so that the numbers or dates thereon, indicating the days contained in a month, will be brought into proper registration :or alinement with permanent col- 'umns designating the names of the days of a week, other means being provided to obstruct from vision certain of the highest numbers found on the date sheet, so that months containing only thirty days will not be recorded as containing thirty one. Month and year indicating means are also provided in connection with the calendar.

A further object of the invention resides in a calendar of the above character which will require adjustment at the expiration of each month and said adjustment may be readily accomplished in a simple and convenient manner.

Other objects reside in Aa calendar having the above enumerated features, the same be'- ing plain or ornamental in appearance, in

accordance with the cost of manufacturing the same, 'of varying proportions and designed to accurately perform its assigned functions throughout the life thereof.

The invention accordingly consists in the novel features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction herein described and the scope of the application of which will be "indicated in the following claim.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein is shown one of the various possible embodiments of the invention,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a calendar constructed in accordance with vthe present invention,

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken through the same,

Fig. 3 is a horizontal' section taken along the line 3 3 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken along the lines 4 4 of Fig. 1,y

Fig. 5 is a view of the date carrying sheet, and

Fig. 6 is a View of the date eliminating slide.

Similar characters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the views of the drawings.'

Referring more particularly to the details uof* the calendar, the same in its preferredform consists of a holder or frame 1 in the form of a rectangular plate, the same may be constructed of any suitable material, of.

any desired proportion, and may be attractively finished to present an artistic appearance. The frame 1 has formed therein a substantially rectangular opening 2 and is also provided with a backing 3, in order to provide a chamber 4 immediately in the rear of the opening 2.

`Movably positioned inchamber 4:. and

supported by the backing 3 is a sliding date sheet 5, the latter being provided with suitable date numerals 6, which are arrangedin thirteen vertical columns Z) and in siX horizontal columns c. The opening 2, in width, is equal to the Width of six of the vertical columns Z) and inheight to that of the columns c of the date sheet 5. The frame l, contiguous tothe opening 2, is provided with suitable indicia 7, designating the days of the week, 'which is adapted to aline or register with the numerals in the column b.

The sheet 45 is movable, with respect? to the opening 2, in order to compensate for the factifthat the first day of a new month is likely to fall upon a different day from that of a preceding month; for instance, if the rst day of one month-occurs on a Thursday, the date numeral 1 of the date sheet is moved4 to a position in vertical alinement with the Thursday column which correctly positions the balance of the numerals upon the sheet 5 in their proper positions, e., so

Patented May ia, raie.

that the date of each day of themonth will be directly beneath the day upon which 1t will fall. 1f the irst day of the month should be Sunday, the date sheet 5 would bemoved until the numeral 1 thereof alines with the Sunday column, and so on, as will be readil understood.' It will be apparent,

'upon re erence to Fig. 5 or" the drawings,

that the date sheet 5 is substantially double in width to that of the opening2, so

that when the position of the numeral 1 thereon is moved from the Sunday column to F.the Saturday column, the sheet 5 will always bevsible through the opening 2. The

'date' numerals upon said sheet are so arranged that regardless of the day of the week the numeral 1 thereof is positioned' under, the numerals of the following days .will be positioned in proper relation with the days of the week upon which they will occur. p

The lower left hand corner of the opening v2 is provided with a communicating recess` 8, which is utilized to record the last days ofa month, when the first days of the same fall upon `either Friday or Saturday. The

date numerals which register with the recess l8 are located upon the lowermost column lc of the date sheet 5.

In the event of the recess 8 being of no `value in recording the days of a month, a

date eliminating slide 9, movably positioned in the backin 3 and disposed between the frame 1 and t e sheet 5', is moved to a position obstructing the view of the numerals. The slide 9 is also provided with an integral upwardly extending projection 10, which is adapted to aline with ,the horizontal column' v c of the sheet 5, saidprojection being movfound in the sheet 5 will correctly portray the proper dates of the days occurring in a specified month.

From the foregoin it will be manifest thatdevices are rovided for correctly and conveniently alinlng the .dates of months in proper relation to the days of' the weeks upon which they occur, and, also, additional means, such as the slide 9, for obstructing the view of certain of the higher numerals or dates found 'on the sheet 5 when thesame are of a superfluous nature,

After having described the date disclosing mechanism, the month-and ,yearifndicating means may be descrlbed as consisting of a plurality of rotatable disks 12 and 13.' The l disk 12. is provided with the names of the months of a year printed or otherwise'denoted thereon, the latter being arranged in the radial manner disclosed in Fig. 2 of the drawings. An operating handle 14 is secured to the disk 12 and is located on the front of the calendar, whereby upon rotating said handle, the disk 12 will be revolved to cause any one of the months indicated thereon to register with a slot 15 formed in said frame 1, in order that the names of a month v'will be clearly visible from the front view 0f the calendar.

While the present embodiment of the calendar is formed to provide the year indicating mechanism 13, it is to be understood that this mechanism can very readily be omitted, inasmuch as such mechanism is `very seldom observed, as those having use for a calendar are generally cognizant with the date of a year 1n which they are living. However, to provide for `such a contingency, and to finish the completeness of the calendar, the year mechanism 13 is utilized in the referred form of the invention, and conslsts of the disk 13, similar to the disk 12, havin year indicating indicia 16e thereon which, w 'en the disk 13 is rotated by the handle 17 thereof, will cause one of the years indicated thereon, to register with the openings 18, where it may be seen from the front of the calendar.

' After having described the invention it is thought that the construction and operation thereof will be clearly apparent to those versed in the art and, therefore, a more extended explantion :has been accordingly omitted. The calendar is constructed of few and simple parts which can be readily assembled in operative relation, and requires vattention but once a month to effect its adjustments. By its relatively at construction it may be readily suspended from a vertical support in the manner of an ordinary calendar, or may be formed as a desk blotter or surface.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently part of a widelyl different embodiments of the inven,.

tion could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all' vmatter eontalned in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall b e interpreted as'illustrative and .not in a limitmg sense.

Having described the invention what is claimed as new and atentableisz- A perpetual calen ar comprising a frame having a chamber therein and an opening in its front face, said opening having an extension at its lower edge adjacent one Side thereof and a second extension in the oppo site side, the bottom of the seond extension being on a line with the bottom of the opening, a date carrying sheet slidably mounted in said chamber and visible through the opening, a button carried by said date sheet,

a. slide movably mounted in said chamber at the lower part thereof and having its upper edge stepped, and a, button on said 10 shde engaging the lower edge of the opening and adapted to enter the second exten-l sion for removing the end of Said slide from the first extension. Y

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

ALEXNDER LECKEY.

Witnesses LOUIS B. HUMPHREYS, Jr.,

IRMA FITZGERALD.

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