Abstract:
A watch of the present invention includes a calendar date finder in the form of two interacting disks rotatable relative to the other thereby providing calendar date information. A first disk has a circular periphery with a numeric indicia printed thereon. The numeric indicia is further defined by segments representing months of the year with each segment presenting sequential numbers representing the thirty-one or thirty days of the calendar month. A second disk has week day indicia printed thereon uniformly spaced along the periphery thereof, in a sequential pattern and a marker printed thereon. The position of the marker next to any given day indicia on the first disc as both disks are rotatable next to one another will indicate a day of a future event indicated on the first disk within the segment as the user will identify number of weeks counted from the marker.

Description:
RELATED APPLICATIONS 
       [0001]    This is a non-provisional application that claims priority to a provisional application Ser. No. 61/795,361 filed on Oct. 15, 2012 and incorporated herewith by reference in its entirety. 
     
    
     FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
       [0002]    The present invention relates to a piece of jewelry, and more particularly to a wrist watch. 
       BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
       [0003]    People have been using calendars for centuries to plan different events, meetings, and other gatherings. Different social and business events are usually planned with great care and well in advance. Most often these events are planned without reference to a calendar. In today&#39;s very complicated social and business climate, such dates must be planned often months and even years in advance. 
         [0004]    Unfortunately, conventional calendars ordinarily span but a single year. There are calendars that show multiple years. However, those calendars which show multiple years are usually printed in three or four whole year calendar formats and side-by-side, as is frequently the case with check-book recording forms that are issued by bands. There is a wide range of calendars on the market, including a perpetual calendar that displays the month, day and date by the turn of a dial; however, it does not have the year included in its design. 
         [0005]    U.S. Pat. No. 5,189,285 to Fletcher Young, Jr. for example, teaches a calendar date finder in the form of a circular slide rule composed of two interacting disks, rotation of one disk relative to the other selectively providing calendar date information from a first preselected year through a second preselected year, inclusive. An upper disk has a circular periphery with a notch along a portion thereof, and further has a cut-out spaced uniformly from the periphery and extending along a portion of the periphery. Numeric indicia are printed on the upper disk adjacent the notch. The numeric indicia are sequential numbers from 1 to 31 representing the thirty-one days of a calendar month. Month indicia are printed on the upper disk in a predetermined pattern adjacent the cut-out. A lower disk has week day indicia printed thereon uniformly spaced along the periphery thereof, in a sequential pattern. Spaced inwardly from the week day indicia is a predetermined pattern of year indicia indicating each year from the first through the second preselected years, inclusive. The position of the year indicia is such as to show through the cut-out, and the position of the week day indicia is such as to show through the notch. Alignment of a month indicia with a year indicia automatically indicates the days of the week for dates in that month in that year. This date finder can be carried in the bag. In reality, there is a great chance that this date finder can be lost, stolen or simply forgotten by the user. 
         [0006]    Numerous reminder type devices were used in the form that will allow the user to wear these reminder type devices. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 7,035,169 to Gonzales teaches an electronic timepiece, of the wristwatch type, for providing information relating to an event comprising a plurality of scheduled events, like for example the Olympic Games, the football World Cup, or the public holidays across the world. The timepiece includes in particular a control circuit comprising storage means in which there is stored data relating to the scheduling of the plurality of scheduled events and comparison means for comparing the data stored with a time-related piece of information, the control circuit activating indicator means for designating one or more events in response to a control signal from comparison means. To the extent effective for one purpose such as providing information relating to the events like for example the Olympic Games, the football World Cup, or the public holidays across the world, this electronic timepiece has a limited purpose and is not configured to provide day finder functions. 
         [0007]    Another prior art reference, namely U.S. Pat. No. 5,199,009 to Svast, teaches a programmable clock that includes a memory for storing times, dates and messages for subsequent read-out and display in providing a reminder of a birthday, anniversary, doctor&#39;s appointment, meeting, etc. The clock is adapted for prominent display by mounting to a wall or other support structure and provides a user with a visual display of stored reminder messages, as well as an indication of the content of the reminder message, over a given future time period, i.e., all stored reminder messages for today, tomorrow, or some other selected day in the future. The reminder clock also includes a speaker and an audio recorder for providing a reminder message in the user&#39;s own voice, as well as a printer for providing more extensive reminder messages as well as a list of all stored reminder messages. The reminder clock makes use of any one of several analog and combined analog and digital time displays which are easily read and understood, including a display presenting an analog representation of hours and a digital display of minutes. Various audio and/or video alarms are provided to indicate the read-out and display of a reminder message. An electronic pendulum is provided to indicate proper operation of the reminder clock as is a calendar indicating the days and times when stored reminder messages are to be recalled from memory and displayed. To the extent effective for one purpose, this reminder clock cannot be worn by the user and is very complicated in production. 
         [0008]    Sports fans desire easy access to information such as the location, participants, and date and time of sporting events. Conventional sources of such information include periodicals, television and radio broadcasts, and team schedule cards. Periodicals and broadcasts provide inadequate information delivery for various reasons. A typical sports page or news broadcast covers only the events of the preceding day, the current day, and the following day, leaving the fan unable to plan for future events. The fan must repeatedly consult these sources by purchasing additional periodicals or watching subsequent broadcasts. Also, the information content is over-inclusive from the perspective of a focused sports enthusiast. Periodicals and broadcasts provide information on all participants of a variety of sports. Much of this information is irrelevant to a fan interested in the schedule of a single participant. Moreover, the information has poor portability characteristics. Intact periodicals are bulky. Disassembled periodicals, such as individual newspaper 
         [0009]    Still another prior art reference, such as U.S. Pat. No. 6,414,907 to Pennington, teaches a portable electronic device for displaying daily schedule information of a particular event and selectively displaying past and future schedule information which includes a display controlled by a processor having an internal programmable memory. The schedule information includes the location of the event, the start time, and the corresponding time zone. The memory contains data representing the event&#39;s schedule and a program for controlling the processor. The display provides actual time and date information and schedule information corresponding to the displayed calendar day. By manipulating a plurality of externally mounted push-button switches, the user commands the processor to update the display with schedule information corresponding to past and future days. A programmable alarm provides an audible reminder when a scheduled event begins. The portable electronic device of U.S. Pat. No. 6,414,907 to Pennington is complicated in production, relies on a battery, may malfunction when the battery is dead, and rely on the processor having the internal programmable memory. 
         [0010]    Therefore, an opportunity exists for an improved watch device that will be easy to manufacture and use, will offer features and functions not realized by the prior art devices, and will eliminate any disadvantages associated with the prior art devices. 
       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
       [0011]    An inventive apparatus presents a watch with a calendar date finder device integrated thereon. A watch of the present invention includes a housing and a bracelet to be worn by a user. The housing includes a peripheral wall and a front surface with a plurality of arrows such as a minute arrow, a hour arrow, and a second arrow connected thereto and extending through a plurality of gears meshingly engaged with one another to move the arrows around a front plate presenting indicia of hours and minutes to indicate time of a day. The arrows extend through and are positioned above the front plate and are movable around a central axis to identify a time of a day. 
         [0012]    A first disk is mechanically engaged with the housing and has a first side and a first periphery. The first disk presents a month indicia placed on the first side of the first disk. The month indicia is arranged in a separate sequential pattern divided into segments each representing a month, i.e. January through December. Each segment presents a sequence of numbers from 1 to 31 to indicate days of the month. The first periphery of the first disk presents a circular configuration and a plurality of cut our portions thereby defining the segments between one another into twelve segments representing twelve months with each of the segments presenting the sequence of numbers from 1 to 31 within the segments of the months that have 31 days and number from 1 to 30 within the segments of the month that have 30 days. 
         [0013]    A second disk presents a second side and a second periphery. The second disk presents indicia representing weeks placed on the second side of the second disk at a location adjacent the second periphery. The week day indicia is arranged in ascending order from 1 to 52 thereby indicating weeks of the year. A marker element is imprinted on the second side of the second disk. The marker element is raised above the second side of the second disk to form a raised portion engaged by the user in order to rotate the second disk relative the first disk. Alternatively, the marker element may be embedded in the second side of the second disk thereby being coplanar with the second disk. The first disk and said second disk are fabricated from metal and metal alloys. Alternatively, the first disk and the second disk are fabricated from polymeric material. The second periphery includes a track defined around the second periphery having male or female connectors to mechanically engage with male or female connectors of a driving gear located inside the housing and movable by a knob as the user rotates the knob around a knob axis B to move the second disk relative the first disk in order to place the marker element where the used desires. 
         [0014]    The first and second disks are movable relative to one another thereby allowing the user to determine a day of a future event by rotating the second disk to place the marker adjacent the number indicating a present day within the segment indicating a present month as the day of the future event to be determined will be located on the first disk within the segment indicating the month and the day within that particular month wherein the day of the month will appear adjacent the number of the last week. Automatically, the numeric indicia indicating the day of the month will be correctly aligned with respect to the last week indicia presented on the second disk. 
         [0015]    Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a watch with a calendar date finding device incorporated thereon which can provide calendar date information for any year. 
         [0016]    Another object of the present invention to provide an inventive watch with a calendar date finding device which can provide calendar date information for any year through a pair of discs, which are rotated relative to one another so as to align indicia printed thereon. 
         [0017]    Still another object of the present invention to provide an inventive watch with a calendar date finding device which can provide a whole month of calendar date information being provided simultaneously. 
         [0018]    It is an object of the invention to provide improved elements and arrangements thereof in an apparatus for the purposes described which is inexpensive, dependable and fully effective in accomplishing its intended purposes. 
         [0019]    Other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent upon consideration of the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof, when taken in conjunction with the appended drawing. 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         [0020]    Other advantages of the present invention will be readily appreciated as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein: 
           [0021]      FIG. 1  illustrates a front view of a wrist watch with a day finder device (the device) integrated thereon; 
           [0022]      FIG. 2  illustrates an enlarged view of the device as shown in  FIG. 1 ; 
           [0023]      FIG. 3  illustrates a cross sectional view of the device taken along lines  3 - 3  of  FIG. 1 ; and 
           [0024]      FIG. 4  illustrates an alternative embodiment of the device of the present invention. 
       
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
       [0025]    Referring to  FIGS. 1 through 3 , wherein like numerals indicate like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, an apparatus of the present invention such as a watch is generally shown at  10 . As shown in  FIGS. 1 through 3 , the watch  10  of the present invention includes a housing, generally indicated at  12 , and a bracelet  14  to be worn by a user (not shown). As best shown in  FIG. 3 , the housing  12  includes a peripheral wall  16  and a front surface or plate  18  with a plurality of arrows such as a minute arrow  20 , a hour arrow  22 , and a second arrow  24  connected thereto and extending through a plurality of gears (not shown) meshingly engaged with one another to move the arrows  20  through  24  around the front plate  18  presenting indicia of hours  26  and minutes  28  to indicate time of a day. The arrows  20  through  24  extend through and are positioned above the front plate  18  and are movable around a central axis A to identify a time of a day. 
         [0026]    A first disk, is generally indicated at  30 , is mechanically engaged with the housing  12  and has a first side  32  and a first periphery  34 . The first disk  30  presents a month indicia  36  placed on the first side  32  of the first disk  30 . The month indicia  36  is arranged in a separate sequential pattern divided into segments (only one is generally indicated at  40 ) wherein each segment  40  represents a month of the year, i.e. January through December. Each segment  40  presents a sequence of numbers from 1 to 31 or 1 to 30 to indicate days of the given month. The first periphery  34  of the first disk  30  presents a circular configuration and a plurality of cut out portions (only one in generally indicated at  42 ) thereby defining the segments  40  between one another into twelve segments. The sequence of numbers from 1 to 31 or 1 to 30 indicates days of the given month extending from an inner edge, generally indicated at  44 , of the first disk  30 . 
         [0027]    Alluding to the above, the first disk  30  may also present the peripheral edge  34  formed in different geometrical shapes. The circular configuration of the first disk  30  as illustrated in  FIGS. 1 through 3  is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. The first disk  30  may be fabricated by injection molding and stamping processes from polymeric materials, metals, and metal alloys without limiting the scope of the present invention. The numbers from 1 to 31 or 1 to 30 to indicate days of the given month and the month indicia  36  may be coined into the first side  32  or printed thereon in different colors and styles. Alternatively, the numbers from 1 to 31 or 1 to 30 to indicate days of the given month and the month indicia  36  may be formed from any material, such as phosphorus to be visible in the dark. 
         [0028]    A second disk is generally indicated at  50  in  FIGS. 1 through 3 . The second disk  50  presents a second side  52  and a second periphery  54 . The second disk  50  presents indicia, generally indicated at  56 , representing 52 weeks of the year placed on the second side  52  of the second disk  50  at a location adjacent the second periphery  54 . The week day indicia  56  is arranged in ascending order from 1 to 52 thereby indicating weeks of the year. A marker element  58  is imprinted on the second side  52  of the second disk  50 . The second periphery  54  includes a track  60  defined around the second periphery  54  having male or female connectors to mechanically engage with male or female connectors of a driving gear  62  located inside the housing  16  and movable by a knob  64  as the user rotates the knob  64  around a knob axis B to move the second disk  50  relative the first disk  30  in order to place the marker element  58  where the user desires. 
         [0029]    Alternatively, the marker element  58  is raised above the second side  52  of the second disk  50  to form a raised portion (not shown) to be engaged, i.e. touched by the user in order to rotate the second disk  50  relative the first disk  30 . Alternatively, the marker element  58  may be embedded in the second side  52  of the second disk  50  thereby being coplanar with the second disk  50 . The second disk  50  may be fabricated by injection molding and stamping processes from polymeric materials, metals, and metal alloys without limiting the scope of the present invention. The numbers from 1 to 52 indicating numbers of weeks per year may be coined into the second side  52  or printed thereon in different colors and styles. Alternatively, the numbers from 1 to 52 may be formed from any material, such as phosphorus to be visible in the dark. A glass plate  70  encloses the central portion of the watch  10  to prevent debris, water, and other foreign object from entering into the watch  10 . 
         [0030]    The first  30  and second  50  disks are movable relative to one another thereby allowing the user to determine a day of a future event by rotating the second disk  50  to place the marker element  58  adjacent the number indicating a present day within the segment  40  indicating a present month. For example, as best shown on  FIG. 2 , the user has a meeting on August 1, as generally indicated at  72 . If the user needs to arrange next meeting in 12 weeks from August 1, the user needs to locate number “12” at the week indicia located on the second side  52 . The number “12” will be adjacent to October 25, which is located within one of the month segments  40  on the first disk  30 . Here, the day of the future event will take place on October 25, as generally indicated at  74 . Now the user wants to plan to have another meeting on November 15, as generally indicated at  76 , and wants to know in advance when his next meeting will take place after seven weeks from November 15. The user will rotate the knob  64  around the knob axis B to move the second disk  50  relative the first disk  30  in order to place the marker element  58  at a below the segment  40  that indicates “November” and below the number “15”. As the user will look at week number “7”, the user will see that the week number “7” is aligned below the segment  40  that indicates “January” and below the number “1”, as shown at  78 . Automatically, the numeric indicia indicating the day of the month as it appears on the first disk  30  will be correctly aligned with respect to the selected week indicia presented on the second disk  50 . 
         [0031]      FIG. 4  illustrates an alternative embodiment of the watch generally shown at  100 , available in electronic version. The watch  100  includes a housing, generally indicated at  102 , and a bracelet  104  to be worn by a user (not shown). The housing  102  includes a front surface or plate  108  with a plurality of screens such as a time screen  110  and a future date screen  112 . 
         [0032]    A first disk, is generally indicated at  120 , is presented in electronic version. The first disk  120  has a first side  122  and a first periphery  124 . The first disk  120  presents a month indicia  126  placed on the first side  122  of the first disk  120 . The month indicia  126  is arranged in a pattern that represents a month of the year, i.e. January through December. Each month presents a sequence of numbers from 1 to 31 or 1 to 30 to indicate days of the given month. 
         [0033]    Similar to the first disk  120 , a second disk is generally indicated at  130 . The second disk  130  presents a second side  132  and a second periphery  134 . The second disk  130  presents indicia, generally indicated at  136 , representing 52 weeks of the year placed on the second side  132  of the second disk  130  at a location adjacent the second periphery  124 . The week day indicia  136  is arranged in ascending order from 1 to 52 thereby indicating weeks of the year. A marker element  136  is imprinted on the second side  132  of the second disk  130 . A button  138  is located on the housing  102 . 
         [0034]    For example, let&#39;s say that the user has a meeting on August 1, as generally indicated at  140 . If the user needs to arrange next meeting in 12 weeks from August 1, the user will push the button  138  until number “12” will show up in an upper screen  142 . The user needs to locate number “12” at the week indicia located on the second side  52 . Here, the day of the future event will take place on October 25, and will be displayed on the screen  112 . Many other designs of the electronic version of the watch  110  may be available without limiting the scope of the present invention. For example, the watch  100  may have a voice activation device where the user will speak the current date and number of weeks when the next event will take place as the screen  112  will display such future event. 
         [0035]    While the invention has been described with reference to an exemplary embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof without departing from the scope of the invention. In addition, many modifications may be made to adapt a particular situation or material to the teachings of the invention without departing from the essential scope thereof. Therefore, it is intended that the invention not be limited to the particular embodiment disclosed as the best mode contemplated for carrying out this invention, but that the invention will include all embodiments falling within the scope of the appended claims.