IMPROVEMENTS IN CALENDARS, AND IN APPLICATION TO DESKS, SECRETARIES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Josse Séraphin Capelle, of 37, Boulevard
Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, in the Empire of France, Modeling Joiner,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CALENDARS, AND IN
APPLICATION TO DESKS, SECRETARIES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE."
Sealed the 1st June 1869, and dated the 4th December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Josse Séraphin Capelle
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th December 1868.
I, JOSSE SERAPHIN CAPELLE, of 37, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris,
in the Empire of France, Modeling Joiner, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CALENDARS, AND IN THEIR
APPLICATION TO DESKS, SECRETARIES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE," to be
as follows:-
My system differs from all the calendars hitherto used in that the
movements being cylindrical a single adjusting knob to cach cylinder
suffices for setting the calendar.
My calendar is composed, as shewn on the annexed Drawing forming
part of this my Provisional Specification, of four cylinders. Assuming
that the twelve months of the year are inscribed on the first of these

page_text: cylinders, it will be evident that at the commencement of each month
it is only necessary to turn the knob of the pinion gearing with this
cylinder to bring the name of the month to the opening in which it is
visible, as in a frame. The same operation will take place for the
cylinder on which the seven days of the week are inscribed, but this
will have to be regulated daily, as also that which carries the days
of the month. The year cylinder will of course only require to be
regulated at the beginning of each year.
My system of calendar is intended to be placed in secretarics, in
the pigeon holes of desks, clock stands, consoles, and other articles of
furniture.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Josse Séraphin Capelle in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd June 1869.
Josse
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
SERAPHIN CAPELLE, of 37, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Modeling Joiner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Josse Séraphin Capelle, Her special licence
that I, the said Josse Séraphin Capelle, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Josse Séraphin Capelle, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CALENDARS, AND IN THEIR APPLICATION TO DESKS, SECRETARIES, AND OTHER
ARTICLES OF FURNITURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Josse Séraphin Capelle, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and

page_text: cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Josse Séraphin Capelle, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Sheet
of Drawing hereunto annexed, and forming part of this my Specification,
and to the figures, letters of reference, and other indications marked
thereon:-
The Drawing represents two perpetual calendars constructed upon
my system; these calendars are applicable to desks of every kind, as
also to other articles of furniture, and by their cylindrical movement
possess an advantage over any of the calendars hitherto used, in which
a second readjusting knob was indispensable to bring back the date
to the first day, whereas by my method when the date finishes it
recommences by the same knob and always by the same motion of
the cylinder and toothed gearing. My method is not only applicable
to desks, but also to inkstands, book cases, console tables, and other
articles of furniture.
The mode of setting my system of calendar whether arranged to
travel vertically as illustrated, Figs. 3, 4, and 5 of the Drawing, or
horizontally as illustrated at Figs. 1 and 2 is as follows:-The name of
the day and the date of the day are set daily, the name of the month
monthly, and the date of the year only once a year. By turning the
knob A. of the vertical arrangement the name of the day is exposed and
its date by turning the knob B; the knob O brings the name of the
month and that D the date of the year; by turning the corresponding
knobs of the horizontal arrangement a similar result is obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Josse Séraphin Capelle, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Thirty-first day of May, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.