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Slide Chart Industry Terms & Definitions
Slide Charts, Slide Rule Style Calculators and Data Reference Wheels are used everyday in industries around the world. To help you research your project, we've provided this list of terms, definitions and keywords.
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A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T V W- Alcott Calculators
Resource for electronic calculators. Specialty stock item slide charts available in small quantities.
- American Slide Chart
Slide chart printers. Now known as AmericanPerrygraf.
- API Flange Slide Rule
Reference slide rule for gas, oil and well drilling industries. Click here to view examples.
- Artwork / Art Work
Any and all logos, graphics, photos, charts and images that are prepared for reproduction.
- Banding
The appearance of solid bands or patterns of visibly distinct colors within what should otherwise be a continuous color gradation.
- Body Mass Index Calculator / BMI
A Wheel Chart used to calculate healthy body weight based on a person's height. Click here to see examples.
- Case
The outer carrier of a slide chart through which the slide is pulled to reveal answers or align scales.
- Circular 33
United States Copyright Office information sheet regarding computing and measuring devices.
- Circular Slide Chart
Two or more circles, disks or dials connected by a central hub.
Dials revolve on the central hub to align slide rule style scales or to reveal hidden data in a die-cut window opening. - CMYK
Refers to ink colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Combinations of these four colors are used in printing to create all other colors.
- Color Wheel Chart
The color spectrum represented in a Data Dial WheelChart showing how colors relate to one another.
- Comparison Charts
Slide chart style devices used to compare two or more products or services to reveal differences. Click here for images.
- Converter Slide Charts
A hand-held slide chart or wheel used to convert from one measuring system to another. Examples of popular functions include:
US to Metric Conversion Slide Charts
Metric Converter Slide Charts
Pressure Conversion Calculators
Metric Measurement Wheel Charts - Copyright
The legal right of artists and publishers to control the use and reproduction of original works.
- Date Calculator
Data wheels for project planning and scheduling. Set a start date, read due dates, delivery dates, actionable dates. Plastic and paperboard.
Examples include:
Date Finder
Project Planner
Date Forecaster
Perpetual Calendar
Delivery Date Calculator
Workday Conversion Wheel
Medical Trials Date Scheduler. - Dial Chart
- Die Cutting
A method of using sharp steel ruled stamps or rollers to cut various shapes i.e. labels, boxes, image shapes.
- Dimensional Marketing
Direct mail containing three-dimensional components to create greater recall.
- Dosing Slide Chart
Slide Charts designed to aid medical professionals in administration of drug therapies. Also known as dosage slide guides, dosing calculators, dosage charts, dosage slide rules.
- Energy Industry Slide Charts
Slide Charts developed for industries involved in fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining, production and sale of energy. Industries included are petroleum, gas, electrical, coal, nuclear and renewable. Examples include: Fuel Cost Comparison Wheels, Appliance Operation Cost Calculators.
- Engineering Slide Charts
Data wheels & slide charts designed to simplify the creative application of technical concepts, products and calculations.
Examples: Asphalt & Stone Calculators, Power Speed Calculators, Engineer's Quick Reference Slide Chart, kW-kVA-Amp Calculators, API Gravity/Density Calculators. - Environmental Industry Slide Charts
Slide charts and data wheels designed to communicate info regarding issues and products related to ecology, environment, sustainability.
Examples: Carbon Savings Calculators, Water Wheels, Recycling Wheels, Emissions Conversion Guides. - EPS (encapsulated postscript file)
A common graphics file format. A stream of generic PostScript printing commands that describe an image or drawing.
- Eyelet
A small metal ring that is inserted into a hole made in calculator board or plastic. Holds together the component pieces of a slide chart or wheel chart. (Also called a grommet.)
- Flexigroup Slide Charts
U. S. company specializing in slide chart design.
- Four-Color Process
A printing process that uses the four essential ink colors (CMYK) to create a full range of colors on a printed surface.
- Gradient
The smooth transition from one color to another color, from black to white, or from color to the absence of color. (Also called gradation.)
- Graduated Screen
An area of image where halftone dots range continuously from one density to another.
- Graphic Calculator
A slide chart manufacturer previously located in Barrington, IL. Now out of business.
- Green Marketing Data Charts
Slide charts and data wheels designed to communicate info regarding issues and products related to ecology, environment, sustainability. Examples: Carbon Savings Calculators, Water Wheels, Recycling Wheels, Emissions Conversion Guides.
- Grommet
A small metal ring that is inserted into a hole made in calculator board or plastic. It connects together the separate components of slide charts and wheel charts.
- Halftone
The process by which a continuous tone image such as a photograph is reproduced and simulated using a pattern of printed dots of varying size and equal spacing.
- HVAC Calculators
Slide and wheel charts designed for the climate control industry. Heating, ventilating & air conditioning. Examples include: Air Velocity Calculator, Gas Pipe Sizing Calculator, Air & Gas Orifice Flow Calculator, Ductulator, Duct Wizard, Duct Design Calculator, Compressor Troubleshooting Guide, Flexible Duct Friction Loss Calculator, A.F.U.E. Annual Operating Cost/Payback Calculator.
- Hydraulics Slide Chart Calculators
Slide charts and data wheels designed as reference tools for the plumbing industry. Designed to present complex calculations in a user-friendly manner. Examples include: Friction Loss Calculators, Drainage Pipe Sizing Selectors, Manning's Formula slide rules, Fluid Power Calculators, Hydraulic slide rules, Liquid Flow Calculators.
- Italic
A font style characterized by a distinct slant in the letters and numbers.
- IWA Slide Charts
German manufacturer of plastic slide charts.
- JPEG (Joint Photographic Exports Group)
A file format for color digital images. JPEG utilizes a ‘lossy’ compression method to reduce a file size & loses some sharpness from the original image.
- Linear Scale Slide Chart
- Logarithmic Scale Slide Chart
A Slide Chart or Wheel Chart Calculator that uses the logarithm of a physical quantity instead of the quantity itself. A logarithmic scale is used when data covers a large range of values and reduces it to a more manageable range or size.
- Mathematical Slide Charts
Slide Chart or Wheel Chart Calculators designed to simplify complex mathematical computations.
Examples include: Viscosity Conversion Slide Chart Calculators, Payload Slide Rule Style Slide Charts, Metric BMI Slide Rules, Power Distribution Slide Rule Calculators. - Medical & Pharmaceutical Slide Charts
Custom slide charts and data wheels designed to meet medical and pharmaceutical industry educational guidelines.
Examples:
Dosage Calculators
Gestation/Delivery Date Wheels
GFR Calculators
Medical Trials Schedulers
Patient Education Wheel Chart Books. - Nomogram / Nomograph
A graphical calculating chart with three or more mathematical variables. Used to compute a function.
- Overrun
Surplus of slide charts assembled.
- Pantone Matching System (PMS)
A standardized color scheme used in the printing industry to ensure the consistency of color from design to final print.
- Paperboard
Any paper with a thickness (caliper) of 12 points (.3mm) or more.
- Perrygraf
Slide chart printers. Now known as American Slide ChartPerrygraf.
- Planisphere
A dial chart for calculating the positions of the stars. A star chart or evening sky map.
- Plastic Slide Charts & Wheel Charts
Slide Charts and Wheel Charts printed on and constructed from plastic materials. Clear and white plastics are used to in a variety of combinations to make slide charts, wheel charts, templates and fan packs.
- Plastics
A generic term for a wide range of synthetic materials used for fabrication and printed products such as ID cards credit cards and signs. CT Laminating, Ultra Plastic Printing, Plastic Graphic Company, PSI Plastic Graphics and Accurate Plastic Printers are specialty plastic printers.
- PMS (Pantone Matching System)
A standardized color scheme used in the printing industry to ensure the consistency of color from design to final print.
- Point-of-Purchase (POP) Display Charts
In-store advertising designed to assist customers in self-service purchases.
Examples include:
Electric Lighting Selectors
Mini-Blind Sizers
Pet Food Specifier
Materials Estimator - PPI (pixels per inch)
The number of pixels in a raster image that will occur in one line in the span of one inch. The higher the PPI, the greater the resolution and the less distinguishable each pixel becomes.
- Pre-Designed Slide Charts
Slide charts and wheel charts for which the functional information is already designed into a moving chart. Each order is then custom printed with the customer's choice of colors and branding and graphic design. Click here to see examples.
- Pregnancy Wheel
Circular slide chart used to determine probable delivery date. Also known as gestation wheel, gestation chart, pregnancy chart, ovulation wheel.
- Proof Model
A complete, functional hand-made slide or wheel chart model. Intended to look as close as possible to the printed product, for customer proofing & approve before production.
- Prototype
A hand-made, working slide chart or wheel chart proposal. Intended to show how a slide chart solution will present a customer's information. Usually a Free Service.
- Raster Art
A collection of pixels or dots arranged in a rectangular grid known as a bitmap. Raster/bitmap art is frequently done in programs such as Adobe Photoshop. Common file extensions are JPG, JPEG, TIFF, PSD, GIF, BMP.
- Screen Printing
A stencil method of applying ink to paperboard or plastic surfaces through fabric stretched over a frame.
- Slide Chart
A hand-held device, usually of paperboard or plastic, for conducting simple calculations or specifying information. They are designed to accommodate the organization and/or calculation of many diverse subjects.
- Slide Chart Calculator
A manual computing device similar to a slide rule. Consists of a cover sleeve or case and an internal slider. The cover case is formed into a sleeve open on the ends, through which a slider can be drawn. Moving the slider aligns scales for calculations or reveals data in specially die cut opening on the sleeve. Also called: slidechart, slide rule style calculator, slide calculator.
- Slide Rule Calculator
A manual calculating device consisting of two rulers marked with graduated scales, one sliding against the other. Also known as slide rule style calculators.
- Slider
An information card of plastic or paperboard. Slips back and forth inside a cover case/carrier to reveal hidden information or perform calculations.
- Slip Chart
A visual aid that reveals hidden data or images by moving a dial or card with and easy, sliding motion.
- Stock Item Slide Charts
Pre-designed and pre-printed slide charts and wheel charts to which a company logo and contact information can be added. Example: Date Wheels, Date Forecaster Wheel Charts, Plastic Date Finders.
- Template
An electronic pattern provided to guide the placement of art and text.
- Three Dimensional Print Products
Interactive printed advertising tools such as rubber band pop-ups, dimensional direct mail and other engineered paper items. Graphics 3 Inc, Whitney Woods and Structural Graphics produce dimensional print products.
- Thumb Cut
Notch on the open ends of a slide chart making it easy to grasp and move the inside slider card.
- Vector Art
Art made up of paths which are defined by points, lines and curves and represented by mathematical equations. Vector art can be scaled to any size and retain its sharpness and detail at no loss in quality. Vector art is most commonly done in programs such as Adobe Illustrator, macromedia Freehand and CorelDRAW. File extensions are .AI, .EPS, .SVG, .DRW.
- Visualizer
A data wheel chart or slide chart designed to demonstrate a mechanical action. View examples of Visualizers here.
- Volvelles
Paper constructions with rotating parts. Also called wheel charts, circular ephemera, wheel charts & trapped dial volvelles.
- Wheel Chart
Two or more circles, disks or dials connected by a central hub. One dial revolves on the central hub to align graduated scales or to reveal hidden information through a die cut shape. Also known as: circle charts, data dial wheelcharts, data discs, information dials, information discs, printed advertising wheels, promotional slide guides.
- Work Day Conversion Wheel
A calendar wheel that adjusts for holidays and weekends in the scheduling function. Limited to specific time periods.
Get details for the current version here.
