A NEW OR IMPROVED CALENDAR OR ALMANAC AND ADVERTISING MEDIUM.” CALR ORSING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederic Bardo, of Lower Norwood, in the
County of Surrey, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
CALENDAR OR ALMANAC AND ADVERTISING MEDIUM.”
CALENDAR OR ALMANAC AND ADVERTISING MEDIUM.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederic Bardo at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th October 1874.
I, FREDERIO BARDO, of Lower Norwood, in the County of Surrey,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED CALENDAR OR ALMANAC AND ADVERTISING MEDIUM," to be as
follows:-
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The first part of this Invention primarily consists in arranging and
making, as hereafter described, a calendar or almanac in such way that
it will last and be available for any number of years, from one to say
ten and upwards, the number of years being only limited by the size of
the material on which the calendar is printed, painted, photographed, or
otherwise produced, or by the number of years provided for thereon.

page_text: In carrying this part of my Invention into effect I arrange, place, or
print below one another in figures the Anno Domini years consecutively
1874,
one after the other 1875, and so on for the number of years required.
1876,
In conjunction with and preferably opposite to cach A.D. year there are
twelve columns or spaces corresponding with the number of months in
the year, and above or in conjunction with the twelve columns or at the
top of the twelve columns are printed or written the names of the months
with the number of days in each month.
In the columns in conjunction with or opposite the years I mark the
name of the day of the week on which the first day of the month of
that particular year occurs. For example, adjoining or below the January
· column, and opposite or adjoining the year 1875, I have the day
Friday," which is the first day of January 1875. Below or in conjunc-
tion with February 1875 I have "Monday," which is the first day of
February 1875, and so on.
"
Having obtained the first day of each month I provide another list
for each day in the weck, that is, a list commencing with each day in
the week. Thus if I wish to have at hand a calendar for the month of
January 1875 I first ascertain by the first calendar before described that
"Friday" is the first day in January 1875; then by referring to the second
list or calendar below or adjoining, beginning with Friday, I have below
or adjoining the word Friday, the days of the week, and the dates for
the month of January 1875, and so on for all the other months through-
out the year, and so on again from year to year so long as the almanac
lasts.
In order to facilitate reference to the years, months, and several dates
I in some cases form holes or perforations adjoining or at the side of the
years, months, and days, and pass a cord through same, and running
from one to the other down to the date of the day of the month, the
cord being shifted from hole to hole as the date alters. Instead of a
cord other indicators may be used free to slide in slots or to be inserted
in apertures, as desired, and to be shifted as the years, months, and
days of the months alter, or they may be made without cords, indicators,
pointers, or indices if preferred.
I mark on the calendar the names of the four quarter days of the.
year, and such other information as may be considered useful,

page_text: I indicate leap year by making February in leap year with 29 days,
and indicating the column for that month and year by a different color.
The second part of my Invention consists in combining with and
placing around a calendar or almanac of exhibits, drawings, or trade or
other announcements or advertisements, so that these may form a sort of
framework or frame to the calendar or almanac, The almanac being in
use for eight, ten, or more years, the advertisements are preserved with
it, and in this way a medium for advertising is obtained as nearly as
may be of a permanent nature. I prefer to make this advertising
calendar or almanac of metal with an enamelled surface, although of
course it may be made of cardboard, paper, or of other suitable material,
and the designs or characters may be printed or written in colors or be
produced by photography or other known processes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederic Bardo in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERIC
BARDO, of Lower Norwood, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
cighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Frederic Bardo, Her special licence,
that I, the said Frederic, Bardo, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederic Bardo, my executors,.
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
ethers, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and 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
CALENDAR OR ALMANAC AND ADVERTISING MEDIUM," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Frederic Bardo, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
liands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of

page_text: the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same 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 Frederic Bardo, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings forming a part of this Specification :-
The first part of this Invention primarily consists in arranging and 1
making, as hereafter described, a calendar or almanac in such way that
it will last and be available for any number of years, from one to say
ten and upwards, the number of years being only limited by the size of
the material on which the calendar is printed, painted, photographed, or
otherwise produced, or by the number of years provided for thereon.
My Invention will be best understood by reference to the accom-
panying Drawings, Figures 1, 2, and 3. I arrange, place, or print below
one another in figures the Anno Domini years consecutively one after
1875,
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.the other 1876, and so on for the number of years required. In con- 2
1877,
junction with, and preferably opposite to cach Anno Domini year, there
are twelve columns or spaces, as shewn, corresponding with the number
of months in the year, and above or in conjunction with the twelve
columns, or at the top of the twelve columns, are printed or written the 2
names of the months with the number of days in cach month.
In the columns in conjunction with or opposite the years I mark the
name of the day of the week on which the first day of the month of
that particular year occurs. For example, adjoining or below the
January column, and opposite or adjoining the year 1875, I have the a
day Friday," which is the first day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five. Below or in conjunction with February 1875
I have "
Monday," which is the first day of February One thousand.
eight hundred and seventy-five, and so on.
Having obtained the first day of each month, I provide another list g
for each day in the week, that is, a list commencing with each day in
the week. Thus if I wish to have at hand a calendar for the month of

page_text: First. The use and employment of an almanac or calendar suitable
for use for any number of years, according to the size it is made, wherein
the Anno Domini year being known the day of the week cach month
commences can be immediately ascertained, these being also provided
with a calendar for each month commencing with the day of the week
on which each month begins, all substantially in manner described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Second. The combination with an almanac or calender as aforesaid of
a cord or pin or other indicator for indicating and pointing out the
particular year, date of the day and month, all substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Third. The combination with an almanac or calender, as aforesaid, of
advertisements or other announcements, or spaces for advertisements or
other announcements, all substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings..
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederic Bardo, have hereunto set
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
my