Calendar

• US 5,316,342 A
• Filed: 03/01/1993
• Issued: 05/31/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Victor Almo
• Original Assignee: Victor Almo
• Inventors: Almo, Victor
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenbaum, Mark
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fridie, Jr., Willmon
• Application Number:
  US08/024,664
• Time in Patent Office: 456 Days
• Field of Search: 283/2, 283/3, 283/4, 40/107, 40/110, D19/20, D19/23, D19/24, 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

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.

Claims

1. A calendar comprising:

at least twelve pages of a printing material, each page including

a calendar field filled with a series of numbered spaces arranged to indicate the days of a particular month in the Gregorian calendar,

a title field provided with alphabetical indicia indicative of the month represented in the calendar field,

a display field provided with one or more graphical symbols of an event which occurs within the month represented in the calendar field, and

a plain, original artwork field within which alphanumeric and graphical symbols may be drawn by an art student,

wherein the original artwork field covers at least one half of the area of each page.

2. A calendar as recited in claim 1, wherein each page further includes an event field provided with alphabetical indicia indicative of the event indicated in the display field on that page.

4. A calendar as recited in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of markers, each of different color, wherein the graphical symbols in the display fields are of the same color as the colors of the markers so that the art student may duplicate the graphical symbols in the display fields within the original artwork fields.

5. A calendar as recited in claim 1, further comprising indicia delineating the original artwork field so that the area of the original art field is defined for the art student.

3. A calendar as recited in claim further comprising at least six sheets of printing material, wherein one of the pages is provided on each side of the sheet.

6. A calendar as recited in claim 3, further comprising a hook and a piece of magnetic material affixed to the hook, the sheets each including a hole through which the hook is able to pass in order to permit the apparatus to be supported by the hook when the hook is held by magnetic force to a metallic surface.