Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-11-03
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The hUeG0TsS Claims az acknowledged and protected
hyde GOregRmeats Of CrHHdG, dte United States,
aad Great Britqia; to al ip10R II may concern.
"HAT CLAIM AS NY INVENTION IS, THE
wv continuance Of keeping accounts current, Of
whatever kind, description variety, in printed
orn, by keeping the statements of the several ac-
counts standing printers type OF their equivalents
the type being 30 arranged In form as to admit OF
being readily and quickly Feadjusted In any partteu-
lar part, where account may have undergone n
change by the lapse of time or the current of bust
Ie1s tranSaetions: 80 that, when readIusted in all
such parts up to any given date an impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit, In printed form,
representing all the balances OF conclusions, in
cOFtanes with the end ends contemplated in keep
balance sheet Of the. most compact and perfect
character the details Of management being substall
TALLY rectted in speciheaDn wherein It Is shown,
that the fact facts to be recorded may be repre-
sented by figures symbols, dates. or numbers. used
either separately or in combination, or by whatever
Sss will indicate the fact or facts desired: and
furthermore baeed ON this primary invention I also
claim the device or contriVance of rendering or
transmitting accounts in partial or full Statements,
when the statement or statements sent are thus,
Substantially thus, kept in type. by the cOntri-
Tances of my invention, be the medium Of tranEms-
sion what it may; but the particular mode OF rem
dering accounts by the Of the Dispatch Machine
continued Of Apron Movement, Reel and Cutter
stamp claim in the broadest and fullest senses and
Nlso tho machine ITSELF embracing all Its forms and
MOdesl OF operating, as indicated in describing It.
either rs a simple hand instrument, as propelled
by machinery. And in connection with these speci-
nc eIafrns. and based upOn them. also claim all
other means and appliances substantially the same
as those herein claimed or intended to be claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
above, this invention has already spread itself
over Canada eghteen States of the American Union,
and into Great Britain, and Is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. Its immense value
to banking and similar institutions will be shown In
circular which will make its appearance soon:
Meanwhile applications for Information, "Deeds OF
Right" or sDSpltch Machines will receive due at
tentlon, when addressed either to
Rev: Robert, Dick, IS9t E9is e. Il or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John J. Haines, London, ENGLAND.
~ To "LEX,' who in the Montreal Gazette of LIST
February, 1886, pronounces the "idea" Of keeping
accounts current ssiR type" egross absurdity,"
thanks hereby rendered, and the assurance given,
that this gross a6surdity is all that Mr.. Dick has
patented In the domain Of keeping accounts. His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
gross abSnrdlty is not practically smugged in any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither df-
rectly OF Indirectly: neither explicitly nor symbolic
CaIly; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
more; the absolute monopoly of this absurdity and
nothing else, Is all he asks his claims, nationally
read, attest. ia sept7