Improvements in Calendars, and Indicators therefor.
Year: 1896

page_text: ...Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1896
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...Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1996 Accepted, 21st Nov., 1906
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Calendars, and Indicators therefor.
1, JOHN FREDERICK BENNET, of '82, Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of
London, Manufacturing Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to sheet calendars, more particularly such as have one
page, or sheet to each month, and is intended to render it easy to see and identify
the date of the actually present day at any time, together with, in some cases, any
memoranda referring to that day which may have been made, or other matter, in
a space provided for that purpose.
My invention comprises a small movable mount, or frame, intended to attract
the eye to the figures and any other matter which it surrounds, and which mount,
or frame, may conveniently be made of pasteboard or other like or suitable sheet
material and with one or more openings, according as the tablet has spaces for
memoranda or not, or otherwise. Any convenient suitable or ornamental form
may be given to the opening, or openings, but I prefer, as the most useful, to
make that through which the figure indicating the date is seen, circular, or oval,
and that (if any) through which the memoranda are to be seen of rectangular
figure, but obviously any convenient form may be given to these and they may be
kept separate or united into one according to taste and circumstances.
This frame I mount on wire, string, thread, piece of clastic or the like which
may be stretched across the face of the calendar and attached to a lath of card-
board, or the like, of sufficient-rigidity to support the same and so that the thread
may lie across the face of the tablet, and the lath be at the back of it, thereby
preventing the thread (if elastic) compressing, or crumpling, the sheet, or sheets,
of the tablet; or when the sheets of the tablet are arranged in a frame or other
binding and when a wire is used to carry the mount, each end of the wire may be
attached to a bar, or part, arranged to be operated by a rack and pinion or by a
band and pulleys or other like mechanism so that the wire may be raised or
lowered on the face of the tablet by turning a milled-head; or the like, operating
the same.
It will be readily understood that I prefer to colour the mount, or frame, in
such wise as to make it conspicuous and so as to at once catch the eye, and attract it
to the figures and matter seen through the mount.
1 prefer to make the tablets with one month on each sheet, and with spaces
under the figures indicating each day, in which short memoranda may be made, or
instead of blank spaces, advertisements may be printed or mottoes, or texts,
appropriate for the day, or the like.
Dated the 15th dor of January 1806
JOHN F. BENNET.

page_text: Improvements in Calendars, and Indicators therefor.
I, JOHN FREDERICK BENNET, of 82 Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of
Loudon, Manufacturing Stationer, 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 sheet calendars, more particularly such as have one page
or sheet to each month with means to render it easy to see and identify the date of
the actually present day at any time, together with, in some cases, any memoranda
referring to that day which may have been made, or other matter, in a space
provided for that purpose.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of one of my improved calendars: Fig. 2, is a vertical
section of the same; Fig. 3, is a simpler form of the same:
Fig. 4, is a similar calendar but with the sheets arranged to tear off: Fig. 5, is
a vertical section of the same:
Fig. 6, represents details.
In Fig. 7, the indicator is carried on a movable wire;
In Fig. 8, the indicator is carried on a wire which is fastened to bands or cords
working over pullies; Fig. 9, is a section of the same.
The various letters of reference indicate the same or equivalent parts in all the
figures in which they appear.
According to my invention a small movable mount or frame A, hereinafter
called an indicator, intended to attract the eye to the figures and any other matter
which it surrounds is mounted on wire, thread, elastic, or the like in such manner
that it may be placed before any part of the calendar, so that it may be moved on
from day to day so as to show the day's date through the opening, together with
any other matter, memoranda or the like, if any.
The elastic, thread or wire is mounted in one of the manners following, that is
to say When one of these is stretched horizontally across the face of the calendar
as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 I attach the ends of it to a lath B of cardboard
or other like material of sufficient rigidity to support the strain of the cord e so
that the same may lie evenly across the face of the tablet and the lath, at the back
of the tablet, prevent the cord (if elastic) compressing the sheet or sheets laterally
or crumpling them. In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the lath is placed at the back of the
frame D, which frame is conveniently arranged so as to hold the sheets for the
entire year (which may be printed on both sides so as to reduce their number to
six) and make the frame open at the top or on one side so as to admit of the
sheets being slipped out and the proper one put in front at the commencement of
each month.
Fig. 4 represents a calendar consisting of sheets bound together at top and
perforated so that one of them may be torn off at the expiration of each month.
The lath passes immediately at the back of the date sheets and the whole may
be mounted on a pasteboard backing such as Q or may be without any such
backing as a sheet calendar.
When the vertical adjustment is to be made by means of a rotating apparatus
as shown in Figs. 8 and 9 I attach to the frame D'a spindle f, having at one end
a milled-head g or the like and carrying two pullies h, h, corresponding with two
pullies i, i, in the upper part of the frame D. The lower pullies h, h, are preferably
made with two grooves each, and to each pulley is fixed the two ends of one of the
cords jj, one end in each of the grooves, the cord also passing over one of the
upper pullies and a few turns of cord being wound in opposite directions in
the two grooves so that when the spindle is rotated the cord from one half of the

page_text: pulley is unwound at the same rate as it is being wound on the other half. The
wire c is attached at each end to one of the two cords jj, and is carried up and
down by them on the rotation of the milled-head g. The indicator A is made to.
slide easily along the wire c' for the horizontal adjustment.
In Fig. 7 the indicator A is carried at the end of a wire m which is jointed at m¹
to another wire n which is jointed to a stud n¹ on the frame D, the two wires being
thus capable of rotation round the joints n' and m¹ respectively, allow the
indicator A to be placed in front of any part of the calendar face, as shown by
way of example in another position, in dotted lines.
The indicator may be very conveniently made of pasteboard covered with
coloured leather or paper or the like, the covering, when the indicator is of
rectangular figure, being carried over at the top from the front to the back so as
to form a loop or passage through which the cord or wire is passed, but the
indicator may be otherwise constructed and attached to the supporting cord.
or wire.
The indicator may be made with one or more openings, according as the tablet.
has spaces for memoranda or other matter, or not, or otherwise. Any convenient,
suitable, or ornamental form may be given to the opening or openings and indicator,
but I prefer as the most generally useful, to make the opening through which the
date figure is seen, circular or oval, and that (if any) through which the memoranda.
or other matters are to be seen, of rectangular figure, but obviously any convenient.
form may be given to these, and they may be kept separate or united into one
according to taste and circumstances.
It will be readily understood that I prefer to colour the indicator in such wise as.
to make it conspicuous and so as to at once catch the eye and direct it to the
figures and matter to be seen through the opening.
I prefer to make the tablets with one month on each sheet and with spaces.
under the figures indicating each day in which short memoranda may be made, or
instead of blank spaces, advertisements may be printed there or mottoes or texts.
appropriate to the day, or the like.
Having now particularly described and 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
1. The improvements in calendars and indicators therefor substantially as.
hereinbefore described.
2. The improvements in the method of mounting the indicator on a calendar.
such as described by means of a lath carrying the cord elastic or otherwise on
which the indicator is mounted, substantially as described and for the purpose set.
forth.
3. In calendars such as described the arrangement of pullies cords and wire.
with the spindle f and head g, by which the vertical shifting of the indicator is
accomplished by rotating the head g substantially as described and shown.
4. In calendars such as described an indicator mounted on a wire or the like:
substantially in the manner shewn in Fig. 7 and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 15th day of October 1896.
JOHN F. BENNET..