US634343A - Calendar-holder. - Google Patents

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No. 634,343. Patented-Oct. 3, I899.

E. A. HENKLE.

CALENDAR HOLDER.

(Application filed may 20, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES;

PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVARD A. I-IENKLE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CALENDAR-HOLDER.

's' PEcInIcAT'IoN forming part of Letters latent No. 634,343, dated October 3, 1899.

Application filed May 20, 1899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. IIENKLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Calendar-Holders, of which the following is a specification;

This invention relates to calendar-stands, and especially to that type of stands designed for holding calendars composed of sheets of paper superimposed one upon another to form a pad or block, each sheet bearing the data concerning a particular day and the sheets being consecutively arranged according to the days of the year, the arrangement being such that the sheets may be successively removed or detached to indicate the days in their chronological sequence.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and convenient stand of the nature referred to which may be rapidly manufactured at a Very small cost' and by means of which the calendar may be firmly held and supported in place and at the same time permit the sheets to be detached and removed without leaving an unsightly stub attached to the pad or its holder.

To these ends my invention consists in the features and in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompan yin g drawings, forming part of this speciiication, wherein Figure l is a perspective view of my improved stand, and Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the calendar in place on the stand.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a skeleton or open frame approximately of the form and size of the calendar it is designed to hold. The frame is stamped out from a thin metallic plate and is made in skeleton form for the sake of lightness and economy in the metal employed.

Stamped out from one end of the frame is a leg 2, which when bent down at substantially a right angle to the frame supports the stand in an inclined position to bring the top of the 'calendar'into convenient view when the stand is placed on a desk or the like.

Struck up from the blank on each side of the leg 2 are bendable inelastic flat prongs 3, which are bent vertically upward at right Serial No- 717,5'74. (No model.)

angles to the framel. As shown, the prongs are flat from end to end and comparatively thin and narrow to enable their upper ends to be readily bent back or over'and to avoid the necessity of forming large holes in the calendar, as will more fully hereinafter appear.

Struck up from the opposite sides of the frame, adjacent to its upper end portion, are cars or lugs at, while a similar ear or lug 5 is struck up from the lower end.

The upper end of the frame is bent up at a right angle to form a continuous ear or lug 6, the purpose of said flange and ears or lugs being to embrace the edges of the calendar and hold it against lateral movement onthe stand.

In practice the entire device is stamped out and struck up from a single sheet-metal blank of the proper size and shape, enabling the stand to be manufactured at a very small cost.

The pad constituting the calendar has two holes or perforations 7 formed in its upper end portion, said holes being formed at the proper points to register with the prongs 3, and the upper edges of the sheets forming the calendar may or may not be united by an adhesive, as may be preferred.

In practice the calendar is placed on the frame 1 of the stand, the prongs 3 projecting through the perforations 7, after which the upper projecting ends of the prongs are bent backward, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, thus securely holding the calendar in place on the stand, the edges of the calendar being embraced by the flange and ears or lugs in the manner before described. To detach a sheet, it is only necessary to grasp its lower end and tear it off, the prongs operating to sever the sheet completely through from the perforations to its edge, whereby no ragged and unsightly stub is left on the pad, but every part of the sheet is at once completely detached.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. A block-calendar stand, consisting of a flat metal frame formed integral at one end .portion with a struck-up bendable supporting-leg and struck-up, bendable inelastic prongs, the leg and prongs bent in opposite directions relative to the frame and said prongs constructed to pass through perforations in the block-calendar and be subsequently bent over the upper sheet thereof, substantially as described and shown.

2. A block-calendar stand, consisting of a fiat, skeleton frame formed integral with the end lugs 5 and 6, side lugs l, and the bendable supporting-leg 2 and bendable, fiat, inelastic prongs 3 at one end portion, the leg and prongs bent in opposite directions from one edge of the skeleton frame and the prongs constructed to pass through the block-calendar and be subsequently bent over the upper sheet thereof, substantially as shown and described.

3. A block-calendar stand, consisting of a EDWARD A. HENKLE.

Witnesses:

WALTER E. HEIMZ, E. PERCY TEAL.

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