Improvements in Sporting Calendars or the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th July, 1890-Accepted, 27th Sept., 1890
COME LEIE FOLLICATION.
Improvements in Sporting Calendars or the like.
A communication from abroad by ARTHUR HUTOHOROFT ROBINSON, of Nicollet
Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Manager of the
Athletic Club.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.L.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates an improved calendar, and the object in view is to provide a
device of this class in which sporting events are designated upon the day on which
they will occur, by means of a pictorial design representing such event. In connection
with the design a record blank is also provided which may be filled and the result of
tho sport preserved. A tabulated sheet is provided in connection with the improve-
ment, for a recapitulation of the record.
Other features of the invention will appear from the following description, in
which:-
Figure 1 represents a face view of the improved calendar.
Figure 2 is a view showing the pages of the calendar raised and the recapitulation
card in view.
Figure 3 represents, on an enlarged scale, the recapitulation sheet used for the
classification of the records.
In the drawings, the calendar is shown divided into spaces in the ordinary way,
representing the days of the month. Any sporting event which may occur on any
day of a month being designated by a pictorial representation, readily conveying to
the eye what such sport is to be. In the drawings, is shown a figure with cricket
bat in hand in position to strike the ball, which will at once denote that cricket is
the game or sport represented, and this representation placed upon the spaces or
divisions denoting the eighth and twenty-third days of the month signifies that a
game or sport of that description will take place upon each of the respective days, as
represented.
Any other sport as polo, fox-hunting, etcetera, may be represented by picture or
design embodying some prominent features of the sport, and any of these designs
produced upon the calendar upon the day or space on which they are to occur will
bring constantly before the mind of the person interested in such games or sports the
days upon which a particular game or sport will transpire.
In the space occupied by the pictorial design a table is preferably placed properly
spaced for the record of the different sports. That shown in the drawing will be a
record for a game of cricket. This record can be filled out as the game progresses,
and the final results can be properly noted. In the case of any other sport the table
or score will correspond with the requirements of whatever sport may be represented.
Any number of different sports may be represented upon the same calendar and in
this way the same calendar may be arranged to record the dates of all the sports
transpiring in any given locality.
Preferably upon the cardboard which forms the back or support to which the
monthly sheets of the calendar are attached may be located, a table or blank record
form, having spaces in which the summary of all the games or sports occuring during
the year may be recorded, giving names of contestants, the date on which the sport
occurs and the result.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A calendar provided with spaces representing the days of the month with
pictures of persons engaged in sport placed upon the spaces representing the days
upon which said sport is to occur, substantially as described and for the purpose set
forth.
2. In a calendar having spaces representing the days of the month, a pictorial
representation designating a particular sport placed upon one or more of said spaces,
and a record blank or score card corresponding with said sport and placed upon the
same space with said pictorial representation, substantially as described.
3. In a calendar, in combination with the sheets representing the different months
having the days of the months marked thereon, the pictorial representation designating
a particular sport placed upon one or more spaces or dates of the said calendar, a
record or score corresponding with said sport placed upon the same space therewith,
and a recapitulation sheet or blank for the purpose of recording the results of the
different sports, substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of July 1800