US805678A - Calendar-support. - Google Patents

Description

No. 805,678. PATBNTED NOV. 28, 1905.

' F. H. SMITH.

GALENDAR SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CALENDAR-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1905.

Application filed January 24, 1905. Serial No. 242 182.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK H. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendar-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in calendar-holders, the object of the invention being to provide a holder for a calendar which shall be simple and cheap and which will permit of readily filing thereon additional or extraneous slips of paper containing memoranda.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder and calendar-sheets thereon, and Fig. 2 is a longitudi nal central section of the holder.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a suitable base or support for the calendarsheets, (shown at 2,) said base being formed of sheet metal bent to form a front lip or foot 3, a rearwardly and upwardly sloping supportingsurface 4,side supports or ears 5 bent upwardly from the edges of said supporting-surface 4, a rear wall 6, sloping rearwardly and downwardly at a sharp declivity from the rear edge of the support 4, and a rear lip or foot 7. To said sheet-metal base is fixedlysecured midway between the edges the lower end of a wire stem 8, which extends first upward and slightly to the rear, as shown at 9, then rearward and slightly downward, as shown at 10, then upward again, as shown at 11, parallel to the portion 9, then forward, as shown at 12, parallel to the portion 10.

The calendar-sheets are provided with holes 13, by which they are secured in position on the base, the edges of the sheets being confined between the ears 5. These holes are substantially the same distance from each other as are the portions 10 and 12 of the wire stem and are preferably made oblong in form to enable the sheets the better to pass the bend on the wire 8. As each sheet is brought into use the end of the wire 8 is passed through a hole 14 therein, the sheet being then suspended on said wire. Since the sheets are suspended from the upper portion 12 of the-wire and do not rest upon the lower portion 10, it is unnecessary to bend the portion 10 downward steeply to cause the sheets to rest against the'back portion 11 and prevent them falling forward, This latter construction is not desirable, as it places the lower portions of the sheets so resting at too low a level compared with the remainder of the device.

The advantages of this construction are, first, its cheapness, as it consists of only two parts, easily formed and easily connected; secondly, its convenience, for it permits of readily filing additional slips of paper containing memoranda, and, moreover, at the end of the year the old calendar-sheets can be taken off and the new ones substituted without the necessity of separating the parts and reassembling them, thirdly, the construction of the central stem 8 and the two ears 5 provides a simple means for alining and securin the sheets in position.

I c aim 1. The calendar-holder comprising a'base having a slightly-sloping front surface to support the calendar-sheets, and a steeplysloping rear surface to form a rear wall or support, and having lateral ears extending vertically upward to provide side supports for said sheets, and awire secured to said base, suitably shaped, and having a free end adapted to enter apertures in the calendar-sheets when raised, substantially as described.

2. The calendar-holder comprising a base of a single piece of metal shaped to provide a sloping supporting-surface, ears extending upward from the lateral edges thereof, and a rear wall or support, and a wire stem the lower end of which is fixedly secured to the support at a point midway between the sides, said stem extending from the support, first, upwardly, then rearwardly, then upwardly again, and then forwardly to its free end, substantially as described.

3. In combination with calendarsheets having holes near the top and bottom edges midway between the sides, a base and a wire stem secured to said base and extending upwardly therefrom, then rearwardly, then upwardly again and then forwardly to the free end, the distance between the rearwardly and forwardly extending portions of the stem being substantially the same as that behand in the presence of two subscribing Wittween the holes in the sheets, whereby said nesses sheets may be supported by the lower portion 01 the stem passing through one hole, and the SMITH 5 free end of the stem passing through the l/Vitnesses:

other hole, substantially as described. FRANCIS M. WRIGHT, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 1 BESSIE GORFINKEL.

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