Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-18
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
0TSPATCH PATIENT

The Ilrent0rs CLAIMS acknowledged and OFoteccd
by the Governments cf Ls1,iada the United Safes
and Great Britain; to oil schont IT may concern.
WTHAT JCLAIM AS NY INVENTION Is. THE
w contriVance of keeping accounts current. of
whatever kind, description "r variety, iE printed
Orm. by keeping the statements Of the several
counts standinSi in printers type their equivalents
the type being arranged in form to admit Of
being readily and quickly readiused III any particu
lar part. where an account may have undergone
ctan:-e by the lapse or the current Of bust
ness transactions: 81 that. when readiustcd in all
such parts up a1y given date impression then
taken from The type shall exhibit. in printed form
The true Of all the accounts kept, accurately
representing all the balances conclusions, in
curdHnce with the end or ends contemplated in keep
ing the record; rendering il. III commercial business
u balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character. the details Of management being subStan
TALLY rsctsd in specification, wherein it i= shown
that the Tact or cfs 10 be recorded may he repre-
scented by figures Symbols dates, numbers. USED
either separately or in combination. by whatever
else will indicate the fact facts desired: and
furthermore basel this primary invention. also
claim the device contrivHnce Of rendering
transmitting accounts partial or full Statements
when the statement statements 80 sent thus.
substantially thus kept in type. by the contri-
of my Invention be the medium Of transmits
sion what it may; but the particular mode of
dering accounts by the use Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement Reel, AMI Cutter
stamp. cluim in the broades and fullest and
also the machine Itself embracing ell its FORMS and
modes Of operating, indicated in describing it,
either simple hand instrument. propelled
by machinery And in connection with these sI.c-
Rc claims. AMI based upon them, also claim all
other Ine1ns 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
Canada. eighteen States of the American Union
aud into Great Britain, and is used in than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. It's Immense value
to banking and similar institutions will be shown i'll
a circular which will make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information. 'Dee'ls "f
Right" or "Dtsptch Machines will receive due
tentiou when addressed either
Rev. RObert, Dick P Fly re- C. " =, or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John J. HaiMes, London, ENGLAND.
N- To "LEX-" who in the Montreal Ca:sttr Of LIST
February, 1880, pronOunces the sidea" Of keeping
accounts current "in type" ''gross absnrdity."
thanks hereby rendered and the given,
that this gross a6surdity is all that Mr. Dick ls
patented in the domain Of Keeping accounts. His
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross absurlity is not practically Struggled in any
manner: neither bodily partially; neither di-
recty or indirectly; neither explicitly symbol.
cally; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
more; the absolute monopoly of this absurdty and
nothing else is all he asks his claims, nationally
read, attest septT