Patent ID: 6269563
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: G09D

Abstract:
A perpetual calendar for indicating date information selected from the group consisting of day-of-week, day-of-month and month, said perpetual calendar comprising:a structure having a bottom and providing an anchor point on said structure above said bottom and a first plurality of spaced apart datum locations located above said bottom and said anchor point, a first plurality of first magnetic attractors stationary on said structure and each corresponding to only one of said datum locations, first date indicia at each of said datum locations, a second magnetic attractor anchored by a line to said anchor point, said line being shorter than a distance between any of said datum locations and said anchor point but sufficiently long so that said second magnetic attractor is held in static suspension above said anchor point by magnetic attraction if brought into sufficient proximity under any selected one of said first magnetic attractors among said first plurality of magnetic attractors and said line is held taut by said magnetic attraction, so that said line and said second magnetic attractor remain as a visual pointer to said first date indicia at a selected one of said datum locations until displaced from attraction to the selected one of said first magnetic attractors and into sufficient proximity to another one of said first magnetic attractors among said first plurality.