Per Indicator
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 19th Feb., 1895
Perpetual Monthly Date Indicator.
ROBERT CHARLES DAVIES "Rosemary "Rosemary Lane Formby Lancaster
Commercial Stationers' Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This
A perpetual monthly date indicator for the purpose of showing at a glance all
the days of any month under the heading of the days of the week. The feature of
this arrangement being that the indicator may be used for any year.
invention relates to movable dates for perpetual and annual date indicators which
may be used for calendars, stationery cabinets, desks, clocks, advertisements, (size.
variable), and other purposes; and consists of a sheet of cardboard, metal, glass,
ivorine, panel of wood, or other suitable substance upon which are embossed,
printed, lithographed, or otherwise marked, combinations of figures placed in
columns, to be used as dates for the days of each month of any year, and called the
"date plate."
This movable "date plate" slides behind an opening in another
embossed, printed, lithographed, or otherwise marked sheet, called the "frame,
in such a manner that only seven perpendicular columns of figures are exposed to
view at any one time, seven columns of figures being at one movement placed in
position under the full or abbreviated names of the seven days of the week indicated
on "frame" and fixed in such required position, or released therefrom, by means of
screw button pin" sliding laterally in a "slot" and fixed to the "date plate."
A "cover plate," having blank spaces only, similar in principle to the "date plate
before described, is also worked by means of a screw button pin "fixed to the
cover plate" and sliding laterally in a "slot." This "cover plate" is to be used
when necessary to cover certain figures appearing on
"date plate."
Dated this 17th day of February 1894.
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ROBERT C. DAVIES.
Perpetual Monthly Date Indicator.
I, ROBERT CHARLES DAVIES, of "Rosemary" Rosemary Lane, Formby, in
the County of Lancaster, Stationer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My invention relates to a perpetual monthly date indicator, which shows all the
days of each month of any year, and is suitable for use as a permanent calendar:
the device may be adapted to, and may be used in connection with, stationery
cabinets, advertisement tablets and for other purposes. It may be made in various
sizes.
Perpetual Monthly Date Indicator.
I, ROBERT CHARLES DAVIES, of "Rosemary" Rosemary Lane, Formby, in
the County of Lancaster, Stationer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My invention relates to a perpetual monthly date indicator, which shows all the
days of each month of any year, and is suitable for use as a permanent calendar:
the device may be adapted to, and may be used in connection with, stationery
cabinets, advertisement tablets and for other purposes.
It may be made in various
sizes.
The accompanying drawings show :—
Fig. 1. F. The view of the front of the moveable date-plate.
Fig. 1. H. The view of the punched hole in the date-plate.
Fig. 2. G. The view of the front of the moveable cover-plate.
Fig. 2. I. The view of the attachment.

page_text: Fig. 3. A.
Fig. 3. B.
Fig. 3. C.
The view of the front of the opening in the frame.
The view of the front of the slot in the frame.
The view of the front of the aperture in the frame.
Fig. 3. I. The view of the attachment.
Fig. 3. J. The view of the front of the frame.
Fig. 4. D. D. The view of the ledges at the back of the frame.
Fig. 4. E. The view of the back of the disc at the back of the frame.
Fig. 4. F. The view of the back of the dateplate.
Fig. 4. H. The view of the punched hole in the dateplate.
Fig. 4. J. The view of the back of the frame.
Fig. 5. I. The view of the attachment.
The particulars of the invention are as follow:-
(1.) A moveable dateplate marked F on the accompanying drawings, made of
metal, wood pulp-board, cardboard or other suitable substance or substances, upon
which are embossed, printed, lithographed or otherwise marked, combinations of
figures arranged in rectangular spaces, to be used as dates for the days of each
month of any year. The dateplate is intended to slide behind an open or cut-out
space, called the opening marked A on the accompanying drawings, in the frame
marked J on the accompanying drawings, in such a manner as to present to view
only seven perpendicular columns of figures to indicate the days of the month.
(2.) A moveable coverplate marked G on the accompanying drawings, made of
metal, wood pulp-board, cardboard or other suitable substance or substances, upon
which are embossed, printed, lithographed or otherwise marked, rectangular spaces.
The coverplate is intended to cover only such figures appearing on dateplate as are
not required as a date or dates for a day or days of the particular month.
(3.) A frame marked J on the accompanying drawings, made of metal, wood,
wood pulp-board, milled board, strawboard, cardboard or other suitable substance or
substances, upon which are embossed, printed, lithographed or otherwise marked
over the opening marked A on the accompanying drawings, the full or abbreviated
names or the initial letters of the names of the seven days of the week. Below the
aforesaid opening there is another open or cut-out space called the slot marked B
on the accompanying drawings, and in it an attachment is intended to slide. Above
the aforesaid opening there is another open or cut-out space called the aperture
marked C on the accompanying.drawings, through which may be seen the full or
abbreviated name of any month appearing on the disc. To the back of the frame
are attached two strips of metal, strawboard, wood pulp-board, cardboard or other
suitable substance, grooved or not grooved, and called the ledges, marked D D on
the accompanying drawings; between these ledges the dateplate is intended to slide
and on the lower of the aforesaid ledges the coverplate is intended to slide. Part
of the back of the frame is intended to be covered over with cloth, paper or other
suitable material.
(4.) A disc marked E on the accompanying drawings, is intended to revolve at
the back of the frame on a suitable pivot, pin or fastener fixed to, or through the
frame; and upon the said disc are embossed, printed, lithographed or otherwise
marked, the full or abbreviated names of all the months of the year. The principle
of the disc is not my original discovery.
(5.) An attachment marked I on the accompanying drawings, consisting of a
piece of bent and cut, stamped-out, or punched-out brass or other suitable substance
fixed to the coverplate, is intended to slide in the slot and project through the said
slot for the purpose of moving the said coverplate. Such an attachment may be
fixed to the back of the dateplate if desired, for the purpose of moving the same,
instead of there being a punched hole marked H on the accompanying drawings.
The method of working the invention is as follows :-
(1.) By moving the dateplate marked F on the accompanying drawings, by
means of the hole in the said dateplate at the back of the frame marked J on the
accompanying drawings, the required columns of figures may be placed in position
and presented to view, directly under the heading of the full or abbreviated names

page_text: or the initial letters of the names of the seven days of the week appearing on the
front of the frame marked J on the accompanying drawings.
(2.) By moving the coverplate marked G on the accompanying drawings, by
means of the attachment marked I on the accompanying drawings, fixed thereto.
sliding in the slot marked B on the accompanying drawings, and projecting at the
front of the frame, certain figures appearing on the dateplate and seen through the
opening, but not required as a date or dates for a day or days of the particular
month, may be covered over.
(3.) By revolving the disc marked E on the accompanying drawings, at the back
of the frame, the name of any month required may be placed in position and
presented to view through the aperture marked C on the accompanying drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A perpetual monthly date indicator, suitable for use as a permanent calendar and
for other purposes, with
(1.) A moveable dateplate to slide laterally with or without the attachment,
substantially as herein described, for the purpose of showing all the days of each
month of the year, under the heading of the full or abbreviated names or the initial
letters of the names of the seven days of the week; also
(2.) A moveable coverplate with the attachment, substantially as herein
described, to cover only such figures appearing on the dateplate and seen through
the opening, as are not required as a date or dates for a day or days of the
particular month.
I claim the application of my invention to the combined parts named in this
Specification, but disclaim the discovery of the principle of the disc and the manner
in which the names of the months are arranged thereon.
I also disclaim being the first inventor of the principle of any sliding or revolving
dayplate with fixed dateplate.
Dated this Seventeenth day of November 1894.
ROBERT CHARLES DAVIES.