US41391A - Improvement in calendars - Google Patents

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IMPROVEMENT IN CALENDARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 41,391, dated January 26, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. PATTON, of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented anew and useful calendar, which I have designated a Separated and Concentrated Calendar, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of the same, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figurel is a view of the calendar complete. Fig. 2 represents the seven cards on which are printed the days of the week. Fig. 3 represents the cards on which are printed the last few days of a month and the first few days of the next month.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a calendar of simple and compact form, so arranged as. to show the date and number of days of present month, and from four to seven days of the next month, which indicates the changes necessary to preserve the date.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

I usually make my calender as shown in the drawings, Fig. 1, the back being of tin, having a thin piece of wood, I), secured thereto in the middle to divide and keep the cards (shown in Figs.2 and 3) in theirpropcr places in the calendar.

The head-lines Separated and Concentrated Calendar, Present Month, and the numbers .1 to 28, inclusive, are printed upon 0'16 card, the shape of which is indicated by the red lines. This card is secured to the thin wooden strip I) in the position shown in Fig. 1.. The front is then covered by a glass, which is secured in its place by means of the preserver 0, which also makes a neat finish to the calendar and secures all firmly together. Thecards containing the days of the week, ar-

ranged as shown in Fig. 2, are placed in the space between the glass front and the back on the left of the dividing-strip I), and the four cards containing the numbers as shown in Fig. 3 in the space on the right. The calendar will then have the appearance shown in- Fig. 1.

To use the calendar, place that card containing the days of the week in front the first day on which commences the present month, (or any month in which the calendar may be arranged to show the date,) also the card required to show the number of days in the m0nththat is, if it be the month of February and not leap year, place the card a in front, but if it be leap-year place the card a, in front. If it be one of the months having thirty days, place the card a in front, and if one of the months having thirty-one days, place the card a in front.

It will be observed that the last-named cards also contain the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, &c. These numbers are for the purpose of showing on what day the next month begins, so that if, by negligence or otherwise, the cards are not properly changed on the lastof one month or the first of the next, still they can be correctly changed at any time during the month by placing that card to the front the first day on which is the same day that was opposite the figure 1 on the card a a a a, as may be. By this means the user is prevented from losing the date.

I claiin As a new article of manufacture, the calendar herein described, when ,arran ged and operated substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JAMES M. PAITON.

\Vitnesses:

O. F. MAYHEW, J AMES E. MoGUIRE.

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