A COMBINED BLOTTING PAD AND DAILY CALENDAR
Year: 1885

page_text: I WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS of 34 Blackfriars Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A COMBINED
BLOTTING PAD AND DAILY CALENDAR 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 a combined blotting pad and daily calendar and in order
that this invention may be more readily understood and carried into practical effect
I have hereunto appended a sheet of Drawings tuarked with letters of reference.
Fig 1 is a side view-Fig 2 is a longitudinal section. Fig 3 is a section
along X. Y. Fig 1 and Fig 4 is a perspective view of the combined blotting pad
and daily calendar.
A A' are two curved plates of metal papier maché or other suitable material
which may be strengthened by the flanges a if desired. The selection of the
material of which the plates A A¹ is made is limited by the conditions that it
must be hard and capable of retaining its form. These plates are held together by
means of one or more suitable Springs C in such a manner that their ends firmly
grip the ends of the blotting or other paper which are inserted between them. For
this purpose either bent or Spiral springs may be employed or india rubber springs
or a right and left hand screw may be used. The paper upon one of the curved
plates is made up to 365 or 366 sheets upon one side of each of which are printed
the successive dates and notices for each day of the year. The paper upon the other
curved plate is made up of a number of sheets of blotting paper or as hereinafter
described this plate may have no paper upon it The ends of the calendar or
blotting slips are clipped and held between the curved plates at one end by means
of the bolt d or an equivalent hinge or fastening and at the end ; by the action of
the Spring C.
The printed dates and notices are arranged so that the printed matter shall be on
the outer side of the paper as shewn in fig 4.
The calendar slips of paper are removed or folded over as may be desired daily
and the slips of blotting paper when these are used are taken off as they become
worn.

page_text: This may readily be done as the ends of the plates at ; act only as tongs or a
clip from which the papers may easily be taken.
To increase the hold of the paper on the curved plates the flanges a may be
toothed or roughened.
If desired the calendar slips may be printed on blotting paper in which case they
are folded or placed over the curved plate A and secured between the ends of the
plates A A¹ as hereinbefore described no paper being placed upon the plate A'.
Every day when in use one of the calendar slips has its end at j removed when the
slip may be folded back over the apparatus and its end be reinserted at j as
indicated in fig 2 The reversed calendar slips on A³ form a blotting pad.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 desire it to be under-
stood that what I claim is
(1) A blotting pad combined with a daily calendar substantially as hereinbefore
described and set forth and as illustrated on the accompany" sheet of drawings.
(2) The use of the two curved plates A A¹ the convex sides of which are external
and which maintain between them the ends of a number of slips of blotting paper
corresponding to the number of the days of a year the slips being printed on one
side with the dates numbers or other particulars substantially as hereinbefore set
forth and described.
(3) In combination with the two curved plates A A' the use of one or more
springs or right and left hand screws substantially as and for the purpose berein-
before set forth and described and as illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of
drawings.
(4) The method of holding the sheets of blotting paper forming the daily calendar
and subsequently forming the blotting pad. by means of the ends of the curved
plates A A¹ the bolt or hinge d and the india rubber or other springs or their
equivalent screw substantially as hereinbefore set forth and described.
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