Improvements in Calendars.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th June, 1894-Accepted, 7th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Calendars.
CHARLES COMLEY Bloomfield Villa Morden Road Merton, Surrey Clerk, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The indestructable date indicating tablets, or date case, is made of enamelled iron,
tin, zinc, copper or any other metals, papier maché &c., and has dates of months
and days printed, painted stamped or embossed in black or colours on a white,
black or any other coloured background on both sides or on one side of such metal ;
and varnished or unvarnished.
The indestructable date indicating tablets &c., is made in various shapes & each
set fitted or enclosed in a suitable metal or wood case, or the tablets can be supplied
separate from such case.
CHARLES COMLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Calendars.
I, CHARLES COMLEY, of Bloomfield Villa, Morden Road, Merton, Surrey,
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved calendar which possesses the advantages of
being cleanly and practically indestructible in ordinary use, so that it will be
serviceable for long continued use and will not need to be so frequently replaced as
ordinary calendars made of paste-board and the like.
On the accompanying drawings:-
Fig. 1, represents a front elevation, and―
Fig. 2, represents a sectional side elevation.
The improved calendar consists of a case a, made with a flanged holder a¹,
adapted to contain independent series of removable tablet-like month-indicators b,
day-of-the-month-indicators c, and day-of-the-week-indicators d, the case and each
of such indicators being made of iron, tin, zinc, copper or other suitable metal kept
from oxidation and from liability of becoming soiled by repeated handling, by being
enamelled, lacquered or painted all over, and the several indicators b, c, d, having
their respective indications printed, painted or embossed or otherwise plainly marked
in black or other colour different to that of the background.
The names of the month are marked on the month-indicators b, adjacent to the
top and bottom edges on both back and front thereof, so that each such indicator is
If such
adapted to serve for four months upon being inverted and reversed.
indicators be made square, their indications may be also marked adjacent to the
side edges of one thereof, so that two thereof would serve for indicating the twelve
months.
The day-of-the-month-indicators c, are of a less height than that of the month-
indicators, being adapted (conjunctively with the flanged portion a', of the case a,
which may be extended at the sides wider and higher than as represented) to cover
that part and those indications of the month-indicators desired to be kept from
view. The indications of each thereof are made on its opposite sides preferably

page_text: about centrally thereof, so that each such indicator will serve for two days upon
being reversed.
The day-of-the-week-indicators d, are of a greater height than that of the month-
indicators which serve to cover that part and those indications of the day-of-the-
week-indicators desired to be kept from view, and are adapted to present their
indications above the month indications. In like manner to the month-indicators,
their indications may be made on both sides adjacent to their top and bottom edges
if such indicators be oblong, and also adjacent to their side edges if such indicators
be square, so that two or one thereof respectively will suffice for all the required
indications.
The case a, and its flanged portion a', may, however, be made of a different shape
to that represented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
-claim is :-
A calendar consisting of independent series of removable month, day-of-the-
month and day-of-the-week indicating tablets, and a containing flanged case,
respectively made of iron, tin, zinc, copper or other suitable metal enamelled,
lacquered or painted, with the indicating tablets marked with their respective
indications substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1894.
CHARLES COMLEY.