Calendars Patents (Class 40/107)
  • Patent number: 6017321
    Abstract: A tampon reminder in the form of an adhesive sticker is disclosed. The user can remover the sticker and apply it to the users body, clothing, or a suitable object where it will serve to remind the user that the tampon is in use. The disclosed invention prevent tampons from being inadvertently left in place for an excessive time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Boone
  • Patent number: 5992064
    Abstract: A deformable calendar in the form of a ball-shaped device sized to fit a user's hand and having a tabular register of days and months printed on its exterior surface. The device has a tightly-packed particulate core and a resilient outer covering. A user can increase the size of any part of the printed register by manually stretching the associated part of the covering. The printed register is preferably located on at least two opposite sides of the device so that a user can view any part of the register by a suitable manual manipulation of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Inventor: Franklin L. Gubernick
  • Patent number: 5984361
    Abstract: The sorting and filing of particular items is achieved using an organizer and a method for organizing. An organizing device having a plurality of pocket enclosures correlating to a specific day of a week or month is provided. Pocket enclosures on each particular date have dimensions sufficient to retain physical items, such as envelopes, bills, etc. as well as additional pockets for miscellaneous materials. The organizing device is designed to hang over a door and may also include appliques to indicate numerals, color codes, appointments, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Inventors: Frank B. Westerman, II, Carol L. Westerman
  • Patent number: 5979090
    Abstract: A triptych construction made from a single cardboard blank is provided. The construction comprises a main display panel having a front face with an image depicted on it. Also provided is a pair of side door panels, each foldably connected to the main panel along opposite side edges. Each side panel is foldably displaceable between a first open outwardly extending position such that the image on the front face of the main panel is fully visible, and a second inwardly extending position for substantially covering up the image on the front face from view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Inventors: Kathleen Lee, Martha Fay
  • Patent number: 5930924
    Abstract: A perpetual calendar that simultaneously and individually displays all twelve months of any predetermined year. The perpetual calendar includes an outer housing sleeve having twelve month-windows, a middle panel movably disposed inside the sleeve, and a numerical calendar grid adorning the middle panel behind the month-windows. The preferred embodiment of the perpetual calendar also includes positioning structure for orienting the middle panel and therefore the calendar grid among fourteen possible yearly positions, as well as indicia for displaying the current yearly position in which the calendar is oriented. The calendar grid includes twelve month-grids that are each configured to display only a single particular month of the year and to display the precise number of days in that particular month. Each of the month-grids includes a common year grid movable among seven common year positions and an adjacent leap year grid movable among seven leap year positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Inventor: Carolyn T. Beard
  • Patent number: 5832640
    Abstract: A calendric device, including a calendric system for displaying and indicating any day of any week of any month of any year and an interactive system associated with the calendric system and for allowing a user to randomly select and subsequently adopt one of a plurality of sensible indicia on one or more of a group including a day, a week, a month and a year.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Inventor: Raymond Cadotte
  • Patent number: 5813539
    Abstract: A calendar organizer for displaying one month comprising six rows of seven pouches, the pouches representing days of the month while the rows represent weeks. The pouches are dimensioned to easily receive a number of standard mailing envelopes. Mail, messages, or reminders are inserted into the pouch representing the relevant date. A means is provided for changing the pouch numbering to match the present month. The pouches are attached on backing material allowing the calendar to be displayed, such as hanging from the top edge of a door or a wall. Accessory pouches are also provided which store reminders identifying important events, holidays, vacations, bill payment docketing, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Inventor: Donald Francis DePalma
  • Patent number: 5803497
    Abstract: A card calendar is disclosed which includes a set of cards in the form of a deck of playing cards. Each card includes indicia identifying the suit and rank of the card as well as calendar information for one week of the calendar year. A container is provided for the set of cards which can be converted from a closed configuration in which it encloses the set of cards for storage to an open configuration in which the container is adapted to support the cards in a position to display the calendar information on the cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Cullman Ventures, Inc.
    Inventor: Sharon B. Suess
  • Patent number: 5799423
    Abstract: A magnetic calendar (20), which may be of the perpetual type, includes a non-ferromagnetic body portion (22) which is preferably rectangular and preferably substantially planar, having a front surface (24) and back surface (26) for abutting a metal surface (38). The front surface (24) of the body portion (22) is divided into a plurality of segments (28) forming a grid-like section (30). The segments (28) may display artwork (58) such as a small pictorial (66), a portion of a large pictorial (64), or a phrase (60). The magnetic pieces (32) adhere to the front surface (24) of the non-ferromagnetic body portion (22) and may include a feature (33) such as indicia (36), an occasion (35), or a holiday (37) affixed thereon. The magnetic pieces (32) may cover at least a portion of the artwork (58).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Mary Slicer Malino
    Inventor: Mary Slicer Malino
  • Patent number: 5784814
    Abstract: A calendar display includes a flat support defining a plurality of scored lines of structural weakness. A plurality of stacked sheets bearing weekly and monthly time indicia are removably connected to a front surface of the support adjacent to a first, upper edge of the support. An adhesive strip is located adjacent to the first, upper edge on a back surface of the support. Manipulation of the support by bending the support in predetermined directions about the scored lines of structural weakness and contacting the adhesive strip with the back surface of the support adjacent to a second, lower edge of the support permits the support to be configured as a self-supporting stand for displaying the sheets on a horizontal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Innovative Creations, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard M. Capehart
  • Patent number: 5697647
    Abstract: An appointment calendar for a hairstylist wherein a book type calendar is provided having index tabs for the twelve (12) months of the year, and double pages for each day of a respective month. Each day page is divided into a plurality of rows and columns defining rectangular areas for insertion of a customer's name, home and work telephone numbers; and abbreviation indicia indicating the particular service performed on the customer. The margin of each page contains a column with additional indicia, defining the abbreviation indicia in the rectangular areas. The margin of one page also includes indicia indicating the time of day in half-hour increments adjacent respective rows of rectangular areas for the first part of a particular day and the margin of the other page similarly includes indicia indicating the time of day in half-hour increments for the second part of the particular day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Inventor: Maria I. Ruescas
  • Patent number: 5661918
    Abstract: A combination desktop calendar and picture frame which allows a user to insert his or her picture or photo of choice into the front cover of the calendar. A plurality of calendar pages are held inside the front cover. The calendar pages are somewhat wider than the front cover so that a portion of the calendar page is visible to one side of the front cover. The visible portion has a compact calendar printed on it which can be highlighted by marking important dates or by placing self stick clear or transparent, tinted shapes over important dates, each shape corresponding to a different type of event such as birthdays, anniversaries or the like. The internal construction of the calendar is such that the calendar pages may be flipped so that the current month or week is at the front most location after opening the front cover. An easel or magnetic backing is included for holding the unit in a substantially upright position on a desktop or countertop or attached to a refrigerator, file cabinet, wall, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: John J. Malcolm
    Inventors: John J. Malcolm, Thomas Shalvarjian
  • Patent number: 5655319
    Abstract: A perpetual calendar 1 which is set by folding back portions at the right and left sides of a month panel 2. Day-of-the-week designators 7 appear on a separate heading panel 3 above the seven displayed columns of date boxes 9. The user makes event entries 8 in the date box 9 marked with the appropriate date number 10. The date for each, month has thirteen columns of date boxes 9 marked with a redundantly extended array of date numbers 10. Date numbers 10 on each month panel 2 begin at the top of the middle column. The month panel 2 is folded back on scored lines between the columns so that only the appropriate seven columns are displayed. Hidden behind the heading panel 3 are year number markings 21 indicating the creases for each year. The month panel 2 for each month is identified by a month label 18 placed at the bottom of the center column so as to always be displayed. Because of redundancy in the date number array, event entries 8 must be duplicated unless they fall in the center column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Inventor: George W. LeCompte
  • Patent number: 5606748
    Abstract: At the front waistband of a feminine undergarment, a clip holding band is equipped by sewing horizontal and vertical threads in a grid form, and below the clip holding band, a date portion is located in which numerals and heart shapes are printed in two lines. Both edges of the clip holding band are designed to be sewn as to extend from the date portion. At first, a gold heart-shaped clip is hooked on the right end portion and a silver heart-shaped clip is hooked on the left end of the clip holding band with a vertical pin and a horizontal pin. Moving the clip on to the clip holding band above the date of the date portion below and allowing the vertical pin tip end to protrude from the clip holding band enables the clip to indicate the date below. This enables the recording of the date when the period began and allows for the computation of the time until the next period begins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Inventor: Shiomi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 5605000
    Abstract: A scheduling board having a multiplicity of horizontal designations and a series of vertical designations allows the placement of markers at the intersections of the designations to indicate a job or functions which is scheduled, for example, at a particular time. The board allows three or more designation variables, such as day, time and function, to be coordinated by means of the board. The board is highly visible and accessible for operators and users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Inventor: Sylvia M. Scott
  • Patent number: 5538288
    Abstract: A substantially rigid, segmented, flat sheet blank parallelogram, which, may be shaped and folded into a reversible three dimensional rectangular parallelepiped. The sheet includes six foldably connected side wall panels, each in the form of a parallelogram, preferably a square or rectangle. The sheet also includes additional material such as support panels, and/or border material which defines, with the six side wall panels, the sheet blank in the shape of a parallelogram of the present invention. In preferred embodiments the flat sheet blank parallelogram is rectangular in shape. In some embodiments there is no excess border material, while in still other preferred embodiments there are no support panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Inventor: Mark P. Heath
  • Patent number: 5496070
    Abstract: A calendar date monitoring system particularly effective for monitoring pregnancy and other medical conditions is disclosed. The system includes a substantially flat calendar strip, which includes a first set of indicia arranged longitudinally on the calendar strip to define calendar days and months. A substantially flat interval strip includes a second set of indicia arranged longitudinally,on the interval strip to define predetermined time intervals. The second set of indicia include a first guide mark formed proximate one end of the interval strip, a second guide mark formed proximate the opposite end of the interval strip and a plurality of intermediate marks arranged between the first and second guide marks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Inventor: Stephen Thompson
  • Patent number: 5457902
    Abstract: A device for recording and displaying events, occurrences, achievements, and milestones in a person's life. The device consists of a base, a tubular section, and a top section. The tubular section spirals upward from the base making five complete spirals. Each complete spiral represents a one year period. At the beginning of each complete spiral, a slot is provided from the insertion of a paper or cardboard tab. The events, occurrences, achievements, and milestones and their dates are recorded on the tabs which are then inserted into the slots. When each of the five complete spirals have received a tab, the top section is removed and an additional tubular section is added. The device allows the events of a person's life to be displayed all at the same time in an organized way without taking up a large space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Inventor: Gary V. Rubin
  • Patent number: 5457904
    Abstract: A personalized calendar is provided comprising a plurality of pages printed/imaged with a tabular array of calendar units and at least one event reminder printed in an appropriate one of the calendar units. Preferably, the pages are bound together with a cover releasably sealable for mailing. A system and method for producing personalized calendars is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Inventor: Richard R. Colvin
  • Patent number: 5426876
    Abstract: Calendar Photo Album having a pad of assembled sheets suitably mounted to turn as leaves and presenting pairs of opposed pages, one of the pages of each pair bearing a calendar page of a different month of the year, and the other page of each pair bearing a picture holding member for displaying photos and the like. This arrangement provides the opportunity to include and interchange multiple snapshots, photographs, or other graphic work at one time. Pictures and the like can be inserted in all of the calendar pages and may easily be interchanged with other photos at any time without disassembly of the Calendar Photo Album. Each picture holding member holds pictures and the like by one of the following attachment methods: 1) Adhesive material for attachment and interchanging of varying-sizes of photos, 2) Diagonal slits for inserting and interchanging varying sizes of photos, 3) A window frame cut-out with plastic sleeves for receiving and interchanging photos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Inventors: Brian T. Jagoe, Janette N. Jagoe
  • Patent number: 5339546
    Abstract: An organizing and scheduling device allows convenient organization of the multitude of notes, reminders and appointment cards which accumulate, e.g. in a home, correlating each reminder with the corresponding date on a calendar. The device includes a calendar, a color coded scale displayed upon a front surface of the device, and a set of flexible, multi-pocketed sheets behind the calendar. The coded scale includes a plurality of boxes of different colors, each box adjacent a week on the calendar. Each pocketed sheet has a tab disposed on lower edge, each tab being of a color corresponding to one of the colored boxes and horizontally offset from adjacent tabs to avoid complete overlap. The calendar and pocketed sheets are releasably bound together, and may be mounted upon a surface, e.g. of a refrigerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Inventor: Michael Rahwan
  • Patent number: 5329711
    Abstract: An accordion-folded calendar sheet printed on a continuous web of paper has sufficient blank spaces adjacent each date thereof to allow the user to record notations and has transverse perforations which separate the calendar paper into consecutive two-week increments. The calendar sheet is foldable at each fourth perforation and disposed in a holder to display an eight-week portion of the calendar web. With the passage of time successive increments can be arrayed in coplanar orientation for simultaneous viewing of eight-week portions of the calendar web which displays the current date as well as previous and subsequent weeks without having to flip between pages of the calendar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Inventor: Edward S. Dewey
  • Patent number: 5316342
    Abstract: A calendar includes at least twelve pages of a printing material, with each page being provided with a calendar field filled with a series of numbered spaces arranged to indicate the days of a particular month in the Gregorian calendar, and a title field provided with alphabetical indicia indicative of the month represented in the calendar field. A display field is also provided on each page and includes one or more graphical symbols of an event which occurs within the month represented in the calendar field, as is a plain, original artwork field which covers at least one half of the area of each page within which alphanumeric and graphical symbols may be drawn by an art student.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Inventor: Victor Almo
  • Patent number: 5313723
    Abstract: A calendar including a first disk and a second disk. The second disk is connected to and rotatable concentrically relative to the first disk. The first disk includes a window and indicia adjacent to the window representing the various days of the week. The first disk further includes indicia indicating various months of the year and lead lines which function as pointers. Thus, the user may select, by using the pointers, a desired year from a table or a list of a plurality of years appearing on the second disk. This configuration allows the user to easily select a predetermined year by means of a pointer. The second disk further includes a day number grid, the dates ranging from 1 to 31. When the second disk is rotated relative to the first disk, the day grid draws an orbit and the grid is located below the window of the first disk. Consequently, when a predetermined year with respect to a predetermined month is selected, the window displays a corresponding calendar month.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Inventor: Scott A. Cregg
  • Patent number: 5295319
    Abstract: An improved calendar unit which has removable and shiftable pieces representing the months of the year and the days of the week as well as the weeks of the month. The calendar unit has a panel with portions defining first, second, third and fourth recesses. The first recess receives pieces or bars with the months of the year printed on them. A second recess receives one of the bars depending upon the month of the year in which the calendar unit is being used. In a third recess, pieces having numerals printed on them represent the days of the week and the days of the month. Several pieces are blank on the reverse sides so that they can blank out numerals used during those months having less than thirty-one days. In fourth recesses, members which have artwork printed thereon are inserted on the panel. These members represent the seasons of the year and provide an aesthetic effect for the calendar unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Unlimited International Education, Inc.
    Inventor: Najat Jabbar
  • Patent number: 5292154
    Abstract: Unexpired pictorial calendars are produced by adherently attaching calendar stickers (8) to bound pages (16). The pages (16) are printed with artwork (18). The artwork (18) is viewed with the calendar information (12) printed on the calendar stickers (8). The calendar stickers (8) have an adhesive (14) for attachment to the pages (16). Expired pictorial calendars can be renewed for future use by covering expired calendar information with the calendar stickers (8). Also, bound artwork from any source can be converted into a pictorial calendar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Inventor: Larry M. Williams
  • Patent number: 5273155
    Abstract: A support for a block-type desk calendar has a base, and elongate rings in which the calendar is secured, and has covers that fold over the base to completely enclose the calendar, the covers having cut outs for accommodating the elongate rings, the covers providing for the support of a single leaf of the calendar when the covers are in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Vilagrasa, S.A.
    Inventor: Andre R. Sala
  • Patent number: 5271172
    Abstract: A device for displaying a schedule of activities in which an activity display has indicia listed thereon for being assigned to respective activities to be identified thereon, in combination with a twenty-four hour clock face display including thereon forty-eight enclosed spaces successively arranged around the clock face in half-hourly increments for respectively displaying the activity display indicia around the clock face according to the schedule of the activities to which the indicia have been assigned. Twenty-four of the forty-eight enclosed spaces are respectively positioned at the hour divisions of the clock face, and the other twenty-four of the forty-eight enclosed spaces are respectively positioned between successive ones of the hour divisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Inventor: Luis A. Ureta
  • Patent number: 5261173
    Abstract: An automatic calendar comprising a first scroll intermittently movable in a vertical direction and carrying a multiple month display of consecutive calendar days arranged in weeks disposed transversely with respect to its direction of travel; a second transparent scroll intermittently movable orthogonally with respect to the first scroll and having a current day indicator with which to identify the current calendar day carried on the first scroll; and drive and timing means to move the first scroll vertically in weekly intervals coordinated with motion of the second scroll to move the day indicator intermittently in daily intervals from left to right so as to identify in sequence the current calendar day carried on the first scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Inventor: William M. Brobeck
  • Patent number: 5259132
    Abstract: An apparatus for displaying daily calendar information. It comprises show pieces, and a holder. The show pieces bear calendar information, and when the show pieces are placed in the correct position the current day, date, month, and year will be displayed. The information size will be large enough to be seen from a distance by the user. The apparatus must be adjusted each day to show the current day, and date. At the change of the months, and year the show pieces that carry this information will require adjustment. The holder while keeping the show pieces secure, allows for adjustment and viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Inventor: James J. Leonard
  • Patent number: 5257940
    Abstract: An educational calendar includes a base web formed of a fibrous material arranged to include a first base to removably mount a monthly indicator plate, with a plurality of rows and columns of date spaces, with each column of date spaces having a date designation mounted to each of the seven columns. The date plates mounted upon the date spaces are of contrasting coloration and configurations for the education and amusement of children and the like. A modified date plate structure is arranged to include a tablet dispensing pocket for use by children.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Inventor: Laurie A. Schaarschmidt
  • Patent number: 5207580
    Abstract: A tailored health-related behavior change and adherence aid system. Answers to questions are used to select instruction statements for changing the behavior of each of the individuals. The statements are placed on spaces on one or more dated pages corresponding to dates prior to, on, or after a selected change date for an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Inventor: Victor J. Strecher
  • Patent number: 5135260
    Abstract: A yearly calendar with multi layered structure is disclosed consisting of fundamentally identical single-faced and/or fundamentally identical double-faced sub-calendars corresponding to different periods of the year and assembled in chronological order.In abstract a preferred embodiment is a single-faced sub-calendar comprising a base and a frame which are flat boards attached together along one edge, a screen layer, a picture layer and a top layer consisting of plurality of separate planar sub-elements and removably affixed to one face of the base in definite order. All the layers are consecutively detached and discarded or relocated upon their designated function. The top layer consist of plurality of separate planar parts creating table of time. The picture layer consist of plurality of located in random order planar portions gradually collated in the frame. The screen consist of plurality of separate planar plates temporarily concealing fragments of messages enclosed on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Inventors: Jerzy Irlik, Miroslawa Irlik
  • Patent number: 5129057
    Abstract: A method of simultaneously displaying day calendar information on the screen of an interactive terminal of an information handling system along with data being processed by an application program. The day calendar data is displayed in a first view port in a compressed format which indicates busy and free time periods, while data from an application program is displayed in a second viewport. The information in the two simultaneously displayed viewports provides an improved interactive user interface in that the terminal user does not have to interrupt the task that he is working on to determine the availability of a certain time period. When the terminal is interconnected to other terminals by a network, the method provides an indication in the first viewport for the terminal user that is actively engaged in an application program, that a second user of a terminal on the network has calendared an event on the first user's calendar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald C. Strope, Donna F. Murray
  • Patent number: 5125688
    Abstract: A calendrical device is provided which selectively furnishes day and corresponding date information for successive years. The calendrical device includes a plurality of successive pages which are interconnected together and which are associated with a day identification mechanism that identifies the day corresponding to a given date. Each page contains an event indicating legend which has a separate date indicator corresponding to a separate date and separate day indicia that are characterized by a plurality of day indicators. Each of the day indicators corresponds to an individual day of a week and is arranged in a predetermined incremental day order relative to its counterpart day indicator occupying substantially the same location on a preceding page. The day identification mechanism includes a day identifying member that has a day marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Day Runner, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald M. Bianco
  • Patent number: 5125614
    Abstract: A device for replaceable hanging display of information having a planar hanger member with an elongate slot and at least one permanent display portion adjacent thereto on at least one side thereof, the permanent display portion having an opening spaced from the slot, and at least one substantially planar replaceable display member extending through the slot and divided by a fold into overlying portions, the fold extending along the slot. Different information on different portions of the display member may be selected for display by the manner in which the display member is inserted into the hanger member. Different information on different permanent display portions of the hanger can be displayed by use of different hanging orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Inventor: Ko Kryger
  • Patent number: 5124912
    Abstract: A meeting management device of a computer system determines the optimal meeting date and time for a specified group of invitees within a set of specified time parameters. A subset of the invitees are designated as critical along with any specified pieces of equipment and desired meeting sites. Remote from personal calendars of the invitees, the device compares available dates and times of each critical invitee with each other and that of any critical pieces of equipment and meeting sites. The comparison determines common available dates and times in which to schedule the meeting. Available or unavailable dates and times of each invitee are defined in part by the invitee and in part by other scheduled meetings to which the invitee has been invited. The invitee may define available or unavailable dates and times automatically through his personal calendar or manually to mirror as much of his calendar as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Wang Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Brock Hotaling, Sighle Denier, Gerald J. Ottaviano, George Demetriou
  • Patent number: 5106122
    Abstract: A combined calendar and catalog for providing information about products is disclosed. A calendar portion has a plurality of calendar sheets and a catalog portion has a plurality of catalog sheets. One or more references are located on at least one of the catalog sheets, with each reference denoting a distinct location in the catalog portion. The references may include extended tabs or color coding. Calendar indicia, located on at least one of the calendar sheets, direct a reader to at least one of the references in the catalog portion for product information. The calendar sheets may display one month, one week or one day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Inventor: Brad S. Perelman
  • Patent number: 5090733
    Abstract: A motivational product is provided in the form of a chart which has a plurality of rectangles defining consecutive days for daily motivational effect upon the user. Each rectangle is associated with a label which carries either an "action" for the day or a "thought" for the day. The combination of a thought which requires to be philosophically considered by the user together with a daily action to be physically undertaken by the user is particularly motivational in character. The labels can be applied onto the rectangles on the daily basis to modify an illustration covering the chart from an initial characteristic to a modified characteristic which encourages the user to complete the task over the cycle of days defined by the rectangles provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Inventor: R. Bussiere
  • Patent number: 5062229
    Abstract: A calendar comprises a plurality of sheets superimposed on each other and a binder for hinging each of the sheets along one edge such that each may be rotated at least through half a circle to thereby expose the next succeeding sheet. Each of the sheets includes a demarcation line disposed across thereof for dividing each of the sheets into a first portion adjacent the binder and a second portion away from the binder for permitting the second portion to be completely separated from the first portion through the demarcation line such that when the second portion is detached from the first portion, the first portion remains attached to the binder and a second portion of a succeeding sheet is exposed. The first portion includes a front surface having normally right-side-up calendar indicia for a complete unit of time and a rear surface having non-calendar indicia. The second portion includes a front surface having printed graphic art indicia and a rear surface having postcard indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Inventor: Christina Werjefelt
  • Patent number: 5058296
    Abstract: A calendar, particularly an Advent calendar comprises a calendar part provided with a stair edge having stair steps which form respective day regions, a marking arranged to mark respective days, the stair steps and the markings being formed so that the marking can be consecutively arranged on the stair steps, and orienting means for orienting the calendar part so that the stair steps extend each in a substantially horizontal direction and are spaced from one another horizontally and upwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Wohlfahrt GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Notzel
  • Patent number: 5033215
    Abstract: Calendar apparatus for displaying a favorite picture, photograph, or other graphic work, in conjunction with a calendar. A rectangular backing member holds pictures, or the like, of varying size and a pair of spaced friction slide members permit the pictures to be displayed artistically by the use of any desired combination of mats, without disassembly of the apparatus. Another friction slide member, located adjacent the bottom edge of the backing member serves to hold the downwardly depending calendar and permits convenient changing of calendar sheets without mutilation of the calendar. The backing member may be provided, on its back surface, with a pocket for holding a variety of mats, photos, and pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Inventors: Jack A. Newberry, Robin Newberry
  • Patent number: 4975061
    Abstract: A child's holiday calendar is arranged for enabling children to visually ascertain the approach of a holiday without a reading requirement associated therewith. The calendar includes a matrix of pockets of a predetermined number to include the date of the month prior to and including the holiday date. An underlying opaque pouch is utilized for storage of various visual markers, such as candy, marking spheres, and the like, wherein a child may visually ascertain an approach of an impending holiday as the markers sequentially removed from the associated pockets. The pockets may be prenumbered, or alternatively may utilize removable date cards or fanciful figures attachable to the portion of the support sheet overlying each pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Inventor: Maxine S. Avrill
  • Patent number: 4934076
    Abstract: A perpetual calendar displaying selected faces or sides of a minimal number of parallelepiped blocks for displaying the year, the days of the month, initial numbering of the weeks of the year and the months of the year spelled out in a choice of several languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Inventor: Eugene C. Fowler
  • Patent number: 4907827
    Abstract: A self-organizer or self-reminder which is used by people to remind themselves about very important steps or things, which should be done prior to leaving home or business to assure safety of the above premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1990
    Inventors: Leon Khazin, Leonard Kravets
  • Patent number: 4905388
    Abstract: An organizer and reminder device generally presented in a calendar format for the reminder of the user to take certain pills, medicines, etc. on indicated days of the month by providing a plurality of containers secured on a mounting panel through windows representative of days of the month and formed in a plurality of stacked sheets wherein each sheet is representative of a different month of the calendar year and an exposed one of the stacked sheets is representative of a current month. One or more pills, medicines, etc. to be taken on a given day of the month are located in an appropriately positioned container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Inventor: Judith Sinkow
  • Patent number: 4863193
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a multi-year calendar comprises a plurality of successive sheets, each sheet representing a day of a year. Each sheet includes a first indicia representing the name of a month and a numeric date. Each of the sheets includes first and second rows disposed generally from the left to the right of the sheet. The first row defines first successive regions and the second row defines second successive regions. The first successive regions are in vertical alignment with the second successive regions such that each of the successive regions in the first row is associated with a corresponding region in the second row. Each of the first successive regions include a second indicia representing the number of a year and each of the number increases in consecutive order from the left to the right of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Inventor: Khosrow Keshani
  • Patent number: 4828290
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pocket calendar which is perpetual and which utilizes two arrays of elements. The first array has coordinates corresponding to the decade and the year. The elements of the array are one of fourteen designators. The second array has coordinates which correspond to the twelve months and to one of seven 31-day month tables which each begin on one of the seven days of the week. Each element of the second array is comprised of two of the designators of the first array. The location of the designator in the second array indicates the month table for the month in question. Funnels direct the user's attention to the proper month table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Inventor: Gary J. Harris
  • Patent number: 4819352
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dosage calendar comprising at least two time scales (2, 3), the units 21a, 21b . . . ) of the first scale (2) being the day in the month or week or else a fraction of a day in the month, week or day, and the second scale (3) having a number of unit elements (31a, 31b . . . ) with a value of seven or a multiple of seven, which is equal to or directly greater than the total number of unit doses of drug to be administered, according to whether or not this number is divisible by seven, at least one of the two said scales including a recognition mark which can be changed by the user during the treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Fournier Innovation et Synergie
    Inventor: Jean Maunand
  • Patent number: 4793634
    Abstract: A calendar diary chart is provided and is designed to be a perpetual calendar diary of a size small enough to be used by all types of people for business, home and pleasure purposes. The calendar diary chart includes a plastic coating on its surface to be written upon on a day to day basis for one complete year.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Inventor: Paul Alloggiamento