A Key Attachment for Indicating the Whereabouts of Visitors at Hotels and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 20th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 22nd Nov., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Key Attachment for Indicating the Whereabouts of Visitors at
Hotels and the like.
JOHN ROBERT CLEAVE Hotel Windsor Victoria Street Westminster in the County
of Middlesex Hotel Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A label for keys with combined means of indicating any one or more points upon
the label at the will of the operator I describe one form of my invention as follows
I employ a disc having at any convenient distance from its centre the words or names
to be indicated In the centre [ attach a finger or pointer so connected to the plate
that it can be turned in any required direction yet sufficiently firm to prevent
automatic change in its position For example the disc may bear upon its surface the
names of certain rooms the pointer being turned towards any one of these names
would indicate thereby the particular room to which attention was desired to be called
In shape my label may be plain or curved regular or irregular circular or angular
stellate spherical or any other fanciful or ornamental form It may be of metal bone
ivory vulcanite india rubber porcelain or any other material or any combination
thereof The names may be impressed or raised or engraved or attached or cast upon
in or with the label itself or may be independant of it Instead of words or names
numbers letters figures or any other kind of character may be substituted The pointer
may be of any description or material and two or more pointers may be attached to
one label with or without additional means for shifting them or more securely pre-
venting their accidental movement The pointer or pointers may be attached to the
labels in any position or positions.
My invention is used in hotels for example for easily ascertaining whether a certain

page_text: visitor is within the building or not and if within in what part of the building he is
to be found provided not actually in his own private apartment In the latter
eventuality the key to his room would be in his possession but in any other case it
would be in a special position in the hotel office or key room Attached to the key
would be the Indicating key label the pointer on which would show where the visitor
was to be found for example Coffee room or Billiard room and if the pointer indicated
OUT it would mean the visitor had left the building.
Dated this Bighth day of March 1987
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Key Attachment for Indicating the Whereabouts of Visitors at
Hotels and the like.
JOHN ROBERT CLEAVE Hotel Windsor Victoria Street Westminster in the County
of Middlesex Hotel Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement
An attachment for keys having combined means of indicating any one or more
points upon it according to the will of the operator I describe one form of my
invention as follows I employ a disc having upon its face at a convenient distance
from its centre the various words or names or figures required to be indicated In
the centre of said disc I attach a finger or pointer or arrow so connected to the disc
that it can be turned in any desired direction yet sufficiently rigid to prevent automatic
change in its position As an example the dise may bear upon its surface the names
of certain rooms the finger being turned towards any one of these names would
call attention to one room in particular My invention is used say in hotels for
example for ascertaining at a glance and in the most simple manner whether a certain
visitor staying at the hotel is within the building or not and if within the building in
which room or portion of the building the said visitor is to be found Every visitor
is provided with a key to his bedroom To each key is connected one of my key
attachments If the visitor is within his bedroom his key would be in his possession
and his whereabouts known to the hotel officials from that fact When the visitor
leaves his bedroom he would take the key to the hotel office and it would be hung up
or placed in some convenient manner or position for reference Before parting with
the key the visitor would however place the finger pointing towards the name of the

page_text: room he was going to or if he was leaving the building he would place the
finger pointing to OUT or similar indicative word In shape my key attachment
may be flat or plain curved circular angular stellate elliptical regular or irregular or
any combination of these forms or any other fanciful or ornamental pattern It may
be manufactured of metal bone ivory vulcanite india rubber porcelain or any other
material or any combination thereof The names may be impressed or raised or
engraved or attached or cast or formed upon in or with the key attachment itself or
may be partially or wholly independent of it Instead of names of rooms any words
numbers letters figures or any kind of character or any combination of these may be
substituted The finger may be of any shape or material or description and two or
more fingers may be used with one key attachment with or without additional means
for shifting or moving them or more securely preventing their accidental movement
The finger or fingers may be secured to the key attachment in any position or positions
The key may be connected to the key attachment by a chain link cord rivet or any
other suitable means or the key and key attachment may be formed or combined in
one piece.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
An attachment for keys having combined means for indicating substantially and
for the purposes set forth and described.