A NEW OR IMPROVED DATE AND OTHER INDICATOR, TOGETHER WITH AN IMPROVED METHOD OF ARRANGING THE DATE PAPERS THEREON."
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to. Louis Rollier Whitehead, of Birmingham, in the
"County of Warwick, Merchant's Clerk, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED DATE AND OTHER INDICATOR, TOGETHER WITH AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF ARRANGING THE DATE PAPERS THEREON."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Rollier Whitehead
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th October, 1865..
I, LOUIS ROLLIER WHITEHEAD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Merchant's Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
A NEW OR IMPROVED DATE AND OTHER INDICATOR, TOGETHER WITH AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF ARRANGING THE DATE PAPERS THEREON," to be as follows :—
My Invention'consists in the employment of a frame or backboard made
by preference of cardboard, circular or curved at the upper part, and with
wings or projecting pieces at the sides. To the back part of the frame-I
hinge a leg or support, which; when not required for supporting the frame,
lies flush with the back thereof, but on being extended acts as a leg t
support it on a table, desk, or other position. An eyelet hole is made at the

page_text: top of the frame, whereby the same may be suspended. Between the wings
or sides of the frame, and on which by preference I print or place a calendar
of the year, I lay a set of date papers, one paper for each day of the year,
and which are glued to the frame and held together at the sides by a paper or
other band. These papers instead of being laid evenly one above the other,
are placed obliquely and in the form of a rhomboid, by which arrangement
each paper is capable of being removed with much greater facility than when
they are placed one above the other in the ordinary manner.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view in front elevation; and
Figure 2 in side elevation of a date or other indicator constructed according
to my Invention, and as it appears when'suspended from a wall, desk, or other
support; Figure 3 is a side elevation of the same as it appears when supported
by a leg at back, and standing on a table, desk, or other support. a is the
frame, made by preference of cardboard, and b, b, are wings or side pieces
attached to or formed in a pièce with the same. On these wings or side
pieces I print, write, or otherwise affix a calendar of the year; c, c, are the
set of date papers arranged as shown and as herein-before described in the
form of a rhomboid; d is the leg hinged as shown, which when the indicator
is hung up lies flush with the back thereof as seen in Figure 2, but when the
indicator is intended to stand upon a support it is extended as shown at
Figure 3; is the aperture in the frame, whereby the indicator is hung up.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Rollier Whitehead in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th April.1866...
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS "SHALL 'COME, I, LOUIS
ROLLIER WHITEHEAD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant's
Clerk, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Louis Rollier Whitehead, Her, special licence that I, the said Louis
Rollier, Whitehead, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as 1, the said Louis Rollier Whitehead, my executors, administrators, and
assigns,..should at any time agree, with, and, no. others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during, the term, therein, expressed, should' and

page_text: lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for A NEW OR IMPROVED DATE AND OTHER. INDICATOR, TOGETHER
WITH AN IMPROVED METHOD OF 'ARRANGING THE DATE PAPERS THEREON," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis Rollier Whitehead,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the saine, to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent..
:
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Rollier Whitehead, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what' manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked. thereon, that is to say :-
.: My Invention, consists in the employment of a frame or backboard made
by preference, of cardboard, circular or curved at the upper part, and with
wings or projecting pieces at the sides. To the back part of the frame I
hinge a leg or support, which, when not required for supporting the frame,
lies flush with the back thereof, but on being extended acts as a leg to support
it on a table, desk, or other position. An eyelet hole is made at the top of
the frame whereby the same may be suspended. Between the wings or sides
of the frame, and on which by preference I print or. place a calendar of the
year, I lay a set of date papers, one paper for each day of the year, and which
are glued to the frame, and held together at the sides by a paper or other
band. These papers instead of being laid evenly, one above the other, are
placed obliquely and in the form of a rhomboid, by which arrangement.
each paper is capable of being removed with much greater facility than when
they are placed one above the other in the ordinary manner.
•
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view in front elevation, and
Figure 2 in side elevation of a date or other indicator constructed according
to my Invention, and as it appears when suspended from a wall, desk, or
other. support; Figure 3 is a side elevation of the same as it appears
when supported by a leg at back, and standing on a table, desk, or other
support.
a is the frame, made by preference of cardboard, and b, b, are wings or
side pieces attached to or formed in a piece with the same.
On the wings or
side pieces I print, write, or otherwise affix a calendar of the year. c, c, are

page_text: the set of date papers arranged as shown, and as herein-before described, in
the form of a rhomboid. d is the leg hinged as shown, which, when the
indicator is hung up, lies flush with the back thereof, as seen in Figure 2;
but when the indicator is intended to stand upon a support it is extended,
as shown at Figure 3. e is the aperture in the frame whereby the indicator
is hung up.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my new or
improved date and other indicator, together with the improved method of
arranging the date papers thereon,—
First, the combination of a calendar with date papers set and arranged
substantially in manner and for the purposes herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, the employment of a leg or support at the back of the frame of
date and other indicators, substantially as herein-before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawings..
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Rollier Whitehead, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
(L.S.) LOUIS ROLLIER WHITEHEAD.