Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-23
The story q AnabI1Ion.
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The LarsRtOys Claims acknowledged and protected
Jytte GOuey1IHenLs If Canada, Tic United States,
and Grsut Britain; TO all nVhom II may CONCERN.
"THAT I CLAIA AS MY INVENTION Is THE
w contriVance of keeping accounts current. Of
Whatever kind, description OF variety III printed
or1n. by keeping the statements of the several ac-
counts standing in printers type or their equivalents
the type being arranged in form as 10 admit OF
being readily sud quickly redJust III any particu
lar part. where account may have undergone II
change by the lapse OF time the current Of bust
mess SO that when rCzLdjusted in all
ouch parts up any given date, IN impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit. in printed form.
the true state Of all the accounts kept. accurately
representing all the bHlauces conclusions, in
COrdRnce with the end ends contemplated in keep
ing the TecoTd rendering it, in commercial business
balance sheet ID the most compact and perfect
character the details Of management being sGbstan-
tally recired in specification wherein it is shown,
that the fact OF Facts to toe recorded may be repre-
scented by figures symbols. dates. or numbers used
either separately in combination, by Whatever
else will Indicate the fact or facts as desired and
furthermore, based this primary invention also
claim the device contrivance OF rendering
transmitting accounts in partial full statements,
when the statement or statements 50 sent thus,
substantially thus, kept in type by the contri
Of my invention. be the medium Of transmits
sion what il may: but the particular mode of
dering accounts by the use of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement. Reel, aud Cutter
stamp. claim in the broadest and fullest sense; and
also the machine itself. embracing all its forms and
modest Of Operating. indicated in describing it,
either a simple hand instrument or propelled
bY machinery. Aud in connection with these Speci-
other and appliances substantially the same
as those herein cIaIuei intended 70 be- claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged aad protected
above. this invention has already spread itself
over Canada eighteen States of the American Union.
and into Great Britain and is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. Its immense value
10 banking and similar institutions will he shown in
circular which will make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information. deeds Of
Right "DiE itch Machines" will receive due at
tentiOu when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, fS7t E@te -, e. ~ or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. Hnines, London, ENGLAND. .
az To "LEX," who in the DontrcaE Gazette Of LIST
February, 1860. prOnOUnces the .'idea" of keeping
accounts current 'in type" '.Erors nbsurdity,"
thanks hereby rendered and the assurance given,
that this gross absurdity is all that Mr.. Dick has
patented in the domain of keeping accounts. His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
gross absuriity is not practically struggled i'll any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither d.
rCctIy Indirectly; neither explicitly symbol
ca4Iy; this ground his claims cover and nothing
morc the absolute monopoly Of this absurdity aud
nothing else is all lac asks his claims, nationally
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