Birthday calendar

• US 7,192,061 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2003
• Issued: 03/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Judy A. Martin
• Original Assignee: Judy A. Martin
• Inventors: Martin, Judy A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Carter; Monica
• Assistant Examiner(s): HENDERSON, MARK T
• Application Number:
  US10/685,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20050082816A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,251 Days
• Field of Search: 283/2, 283/115, 283/117, 401/07, 406/61, 281/39, 434/408, D19/20, D19/25
• US Class Current: 283/2
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 5/04 Calendar blocks special apparatus for printing calendars B41F17/04 perpetual calendars G09D3/00

Abstract

The birthday calendar is a dual monthly calendar and twelve-month chart. The calendar is perpetual in that it is not designated for any particular year or month. The monthly calendar is made of a dry-erase board displaying a month grid that is filled in with erasable ink for any particular month. The chart is a grid used to permanently record and display birth dates and other annual dates such as anniversaries and holidays. The chart displays columns intersected by rows. The columns are grouped in twelve sets of two having a month column adjacent to a year column. The rows display the dates of each month down the left side of the chart, numbered from 1–31. An event is recorded in the chart by writing the event'"'"'s name in the appropriate month and date space and the year in the adjacent year space.

Claims

1. A birthday calendar for recording birthdays and other annual dates, comprising:

a single sheet twelve-month chart made of an ink accepting material having vertical and horizontal parallel arranged intersecting lines imprinted thereon forming rows and columns and defining a plurality of memorandum spaces for permanently recording therein birthdays and other annually recurring events;

a transparent protective cover removably disposed over said twelve-month chart; and

a monthly calendar joined to the chart such that the calendar and chart are simultaneously visible, said monthly calendar having imprinted thereon seven parallel vertical rows intersecting seven parallel horizontal columns defining memorandum spaces for removably imprinting birthdays and other monthly events therein as displayed on the chart, the monthly calendar having an erasable surface for reuse from month-to-month, wherein said monthly calendar is made from whiteboard.

2. The birthday calendar according to claim 1, wherein said chart has twenty-five columns intersected by a plurality of rows to define the plurality of memorandum spaces.

3. The birthday calendar according to claim 2, wherein columns two through twenty-five of the chart are grouped in pairs of adjacent columns, each pair having a first column corresponding to a month and a second column corresponding to a year.

4. The birthday calendar according to claim 1, wherein said protective cover is made from glass.

5. The birthday calendar according to claim 1, wherein said protective cover is made from plastic.

6. The birthday calendar according to claim 1, wherein said chart is made from paper.

7. The birthday calendar according to claim 1, wherein said chart further comprises indicia imprinted adjacent said memorandum spaces for designating a title and owner of the birthday calendar.

8. The birthday calendar according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of rows of the chart includes a top row, the first column of each pair of adjacent columns in the top row having indicia therein designating months from January through December displayed therein, the second column of each adjacent pair in the top row having indicia representing the word “

year”

displayed therein, whereby the top row defines a horizontal legend for the chart.

9. The birthday calendar according to claim 8, wherein said twenty-five columns includes a first column, the first column having indicia displayed therein representing numbers one through thirty-one in separate rows, whereby the first column defines a vertical legend for the chart, an intersection of one of the rows with one of the grouped pairs of adjacent columns defining the memorandum space for recording an event and a year in which the event occurred in order to permanently record the month, day and year of the event.

10. The birthday calendar according to claim 9, wherein said chart further comprises at least one blank row disposed between each of the rows displaying the indicia representing numbers one through thirty-one, whereby multiple events occurring on identical months and days may be permanently recorded.