US402965A - Calendar - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. A. PARSONS.

CALENDAR. No. 402,965. Patented May 7, 1889..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDXVARD A. PARSONS, OF NEYV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,965, dated May 7, 1889.

Application filed January 14:, 1889. Serial No. 296,232, (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. PARSONS, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Calendars; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents a calendar complete.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of calendars in which the days of the month, the days of the week, and figures to indicate the days of the month, appear, all permanent, immovable, and unchangeable,on the face of the calendar. Under the more general arrangement of this class of calendars an independent set of figures appear for each month.

The object of my invention is the production of a calendar of this class in which buta single set of figures may readily indicate the days of each successive month, and whereby a calendar of the same size of type may be produced in much smaller space than can be done under the usual arrangement; and it consists in the representation of the months, with a series of names or abbreviations for the days of the week in line with each month, the lines of the days of the week beginning with the day of the week upon which the first day of the month occurs, combined with a series of figures arranged in rows of seven, from 1 to 31, the first being in line with the said days of the week representing the first day of the month, and so on, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the illustration the calendar is represented as printed upon a card. At the upper left-hand side in a vertical column the abbreviations of the months appear from January to December, inclusive. Adjacent to this column of month-indicators are seven columns representing the seven days of the week, and in line with each month is the name or abbreviation of the name of the seven days of the week, the first being the day of the week upon which the first day of the month occurs, and so on. As here represented the calendar is for the year 1889, the first day of January being Tuesday, the first day of February Friday, the first day of March Friday, the first day of April Monday, and so on, the first column of week-days representing the first days of the week on which the respective months begin.

For convenience, at the opposite side of the calendar a column appears which represents the number of days in each month.

Below the columns of days of the week is a series of figures, from 1 to 31, inclusive, arranged in rows parallel with the days of the week, the figure 1 standing under the column of days of the week representing the first day of the month, and so on, the series of figures being in rows of seven, corresponding to the seven days ofthe week.

To ascertain the day of the month, suppose it to be the third Friday in May. Referring to the month of May and following the line of days of the week from May till Friday appears, then in the same line of figures the third day of that line indicates the seventeenth. This illustration will be sufficient to indicate the use of the calendar.

To prevent confusion, the style of type for each month may be varied, say as represented for January and February in the illustration.

It will be understood that the column of figures representing the number of days in each month at the right may be omitted and that the position of the days of the Week may be changed-that is, a portion above and others below the figures, or the days of the week may be vertical; but in any case the figures and the days of the week must have the same relation to each other and to the names of the respective months.

I claim- The herein-described calendar, consisting of a series of names representing the months, a line of names or abbreviations extending from each month, each line representing seven successive days of a week, the first day. represented being the day of the week on which the first day of the month occurs, combined with a single series of figures, from 1 to 31, arranged in lines corresponding to the said days of the week, the figure 1 being in line with the representation of the day of the week on which the month begins, and the successive figures arranged accordingly, substantially as described.

EDWARD A. PARSONS. Witnesses:

FRED O. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY,

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