Improvements in Calendars, Appointment-indicators, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1894-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Calendars, Appointment-indicators, and the like.
I JOHN DIXON DAVIES of Tenterh, Chepstow, Monmouthshire Marine
Engineer 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 improvements in calendars, appointment-indicators and
the like, and has for its object to provide a calendar, appointment-indicator or
reminder, a device for indicating the amount of the user's balance at the bank, or
for similar purposes, which calendar or the like shall be ready of reference, simple
of setting, and capable of constant use.
And in order that this the said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, I have annexed bereto a sheet of drawings illustrative
thereof, in which :—
Fig. 1 is a view of a calendar made in accordance with my invention,
Fig. 2 being an elevational view of an article of desk-furniture with my
invention, in the form of an appointment-indicator or reminder-applied thereto,
while
Fig. 3 shews a purse with the bank-balance indicator attached to the inside
thereof.
Referring to the drawings, I have there illustrated the invention as consisting
mainly of a number of discs a, a', a², a³ (Fig. 1) of any suitable material, such
discs being furnished with a common pivot upon which they turn, while
projectious a, a, a, a' are provided upon the peripheries of such discs, in order to
allow of the said discs being readily turned upon their pivot bas occasion
requires it.
The said discs a, a², a³, aª are of different sizes, the largest disc being in every
case the bottom one.
Referring now to Fig. 1, I print or otherwise display upon the top or smallest
disc a, a number of lines radiating from the centre of same, upon each line being
displayed numerals representing the years, such as 1894, 1895 and so on, the next
disc a having also displayed upon its surface a suitable number of radiating lines
upon which are marked the names of the twelve months of the year or the
abbreviations generally employed to denote same.
Upon the surface of the next, or third disc a² are displayed similar radiating
lines preferably thirty-one in number, upon each of which is printed or otherwise
marked, a numeral, the whole representing the days of the month, while upon the
bottom disc a³ together with radiating lines as aforesaid, the names or abbreviations
thereof, of the days of the week, are displayed.
A fixed pointer which may take the form of a line c, is provided upon the article
to which the calendar is attached, the said calendar being set in accordance with
this pointer c, that is to say, if the date is the first day of December 1894, the
discs are moved round until the name of the day, (Saturday in the present instance)
its position in the week, the name of the month, and the numerals indicating the
current year, are in alignment with the said pointer c, as illustrated.
In the two examples shewn by Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings, I prefer to employ
three discs a, a', a² instead of four as in the previous example.
Referring first to Fig. 2, I print or otherwise display upon the small disc a
a suitable number of radiating lines-four in the present instance-upon one

page_text: of which are displayed the abbreviations A.M., upon the next P.M., the next
having the word or abbreviation thereof,-mid-night and another the word or
abbreviation of same-mid-day.
The next disc a' is divided into sixty parts in a similar manner to that of a clock
or watch-dial, to represent minutes, while the third or largest disc a' is marked off
into twelve divisions to represent hours.
The said appointment-indicator or reminder is set and read off in the same
manner as the calendar herein before described.
Referring to the bank-balance indicator shewn by Fig. 3, the small disc a has
displayed upon its face a number of radiating lines each one of which is numbered
with an individual number, the said numerals running consecutively.
The next disc a' is divided and numbered in a similar manner, as also is the
bottom or large disc a³, the manner of setting and reading off this bank-balance
indicator and also the appointment-reminder shewn by Fig. 2, being in all respects
similar to that described with reference to the calendar. If desirable, I may
employ four or more discs instead of the three shewn, and display suitable figures
or other matter upon the additional discs, so as to allow the indicator to be capable
of reading up to any sum.
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 :-
(1.) The improvements in calendars, appointment-indicators or reminders and the
like, substantially as described and shewn.
(2.) In a calendar, appointment-indicator or reminder, or the like, the employ-
ment of a number of discs having projections upon their edges and revolving upon
a common pivot, and having suitable figures or other matter displayed upon their
faces, in conjunction with a fixed pointer, substantially as and for the purpose
described, and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of December 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.