An Improved Date Indicator.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th May, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Date Indicator.
We, CRESSWELLl Woollett, Artist, and S. HILDESHEIMER & Co., Limited,
Publishers, of 14, 15 and 16, Silk Street, in the City of London, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a simple, and inexpensive perpetual date-indicator and
it comprises a card or board having openings cut therein and a number of endless
bands of fabric having respectively the days of the week, the days of the months
and the months of the year inscribed thereon and so mounted that a person by
moving the said bands can bring the required inscriptions opposite the openings in
the card or board.
In practice we find it advantageous to arrange the bands on which are marked the
days of the week and the months at right angles to the bands on which are marked
the days of the months.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Date Indicator.
We, CRESSWELL WOOLLETT, Artist, and S. HILDESHEIMER & Co., LIMITED,
Publishers, of 14, 15 and 16 Silk Street, in the City of London, 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 :-
This invention relates to a simple and inexpensive perpetual date-indicator and
it comprises a card or board having openings cut therein and a number of endless
bands of fabric having respectively the days of the weck, the days of the months
and the months of the year inscribed thereon and so mounted that a person by
moving the said bands can bring the required inscriptions opposite the openings in
the card or board.
In practice we find it advantageous to arrange the bands on which are marked
the days of the week and the months at right angles to the bands on which are
marked the days of the months.
It is obvious that one or more of the bands bearing the said inscriptions can be
dispensed with and that in cases where the date is required to be indicated by
figures, too large to be contained upon a single band, such figures can be inscribed
upon two or more bands placed side by side and adapted to be shifted laterally as
required.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe how it can be
carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawings in which :—
Figure 1 is an elevation of a date indicator constructed according to our invention
and arranged to show the days of the week, the days of the month and the months
of the year.
Figure 2 is a side edge view, and,
Figure 3 a plan edge view of the same.
Figures 4 and 5 are sections on the lines A B and C D respectively of
Figure 1

page_text: but illustrating our date indicator arranged to shew the days of the month only,
which are inscribed upon two bands.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
Referring first to Figures 1 to 5, a is the card or board on which may be printed
or otherwise inscribed any useful information or advertisements, and bed are the
openings cut therein; efg are the endless bands of fabric mounted upon strips or
bars ii secured to the card or board a by fasteners kk, the band e having the days
of the week, the band the days of the month, and the band g the months of the
year inscribed thereon, and the bands e and g being placed at right angles to the
band f.
To alter the date indicated it is only necessary to move the bands efg round
upon their respective strips or bars ii so as to bring the required inscriptions
opposite the openings bed in the card or board a.
In the arrangement shewn in Figures 6, 7 and 8 half the figures representing the
days of the month are marked on each of the two endless bands ff which are
mounted on strips or bars ii extending right across the back of the card or board a.
This double arrangement of bands allows of employing larger figures relatively to
the size of the card or board a than would be possible with a single band, as when
all the figures on one band have been exhibited through the opening c it can be
shifted laterally along the strips or bars ii clear of the said opening and the other
band f, marked with the rest of the figures, similarly shifted into position behind
the opening.
Of course this arrangement of bands can if required be used in combination
with bands and openings for indicating the days of the week and months of
the year.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A date indicator comprising a card or board having one or more openings cut
therein and one or more endless bands of fabric having the necessary inscriptions
thereon and so mounted that a person by moving the said band or bands can bring
the required inscription or inscriptions indicating the date opposite the opening or
openings in the card or board, substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
2. The improved date indicators hereinbefore described and illustrated in
Figures 1 to 5 and Figures 6 to 8 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 24th day of May 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.