Improvements in Desk Pads with Calendar Combined.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th May, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Desk Pads with Calendar Combined.
ARTHUR ERNEST WALKER Manufacturer 18 Chiswell Street London. E.C.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
..My invention consists of improvements in desk blotting pads with calendars,-
constructed as follows-viz., a blotting pad hinged or attached to a back piece,
portfolio fashion, with extended piece to show above and along the top part of the
pad which has openings to admit of a revolving wheel or wheels serving as circular
moving calendars by adjusting which, on lifting up the pad, the wheels are instantly
to hand & the date, days of the week &c. can be instantly set by simply turning the
same by the hand-I have adopted for this idea two small and one large centre
calendar indicator or wheels as being the quickest mode of setting the calendars.
More wheels can be adopted if preferred.
The extended portion with calendar openings may be made of one piece with
the pad and the revolving indicators affixed to turn from the back thereof if
preferred, thus being made without the back as aforesaid.
The portfolio form may be of oblong or upright shape also in different patterns,
hinging so as to turn in different ways.
Dated this 12th day of January 1892.
ARTHUR ERNEST WALKER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Desk Pads with Calendar Combined.
ARTHUR ERNEST WALKER Manufacturer 18 Chiswell Street, London E.C.
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 consists of improvements in desk blotting pads with calendar
combined-ci, a blotting pad hinged or attached to a back board, portfolio fashion,
with extended piece on the one side to show above and along the top part of the
blotting pad which has openings or slots through which the calendar indicator or
indicators appear to sight as shown in the accompanying drawing at A, B, C.
Revolving cardboard circular date indicators are adopted and employed as follows,
one for the days of the week, another for the months of the year, and another,
larger one, for the days of the month-thus three circular revolving indicators are
affixed by means of pivots or eyelets (or four or more circular indicators may be
used) if preferred as explained below-which are set in motion by touching &
turning them in order to adjust the calendar, and in this invention the quickest
mode of adjusting the calendar is effected. Three circular indicators, or four, are
used for the present, and they are affixed so as to revolve on the back part of the
pad, which ou lifting up the blotting pad, they are at the same moment seen ready
to hand & can be then instantly adjusted. The extended piece with openings
through which the dates appear may be made one piece with the blotting pad and
affixed to turn the indicators from the back thereof if preferred-i.e. not portfolio
fashion as already described, or metal knobs may be affixed on the front close to
the openings A, B, C, D, Fig. 2', so as to set the dates thereby, these knobs being
rivetted or attached to the circular indicators for that purpose if preferred.
These blotting pads (made either portfolio fashion, or single pad form) may be
of various shapes and may hinge so as to turn in different ways.

page_text: By simply altering the position of the dates, the datal arrangements can be, if
desired, placed at the side of the pad in lieu of the top, either at the right or left
hand side of the pad.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim
is the following features of novelty viz.,
1. A blotting pad furnished with revolving date indicators affixed between the
pad & the back part, portfolio fashion.
2. On lifting up the blotting pad the date indicators are ready to hand and to
adjust by simply turning ther
3. Or instead of lifting up the pad, metal knobs may be turned from the front
of the pad near to the openi s through which the dates are adjusted along the
top part of the pad.
Dated the 27th of May 1892.
ARTHUR ERNEST WALKER.