Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-17
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.
The rentors Claims as acknowledged and protected

The Inventors Claims acknowledged and protected
by the Gorernnsemks of CanGau, the United States,
and Great Britain; to all '0hOm it may concern.
VETIAT CLAIM AS MY INVENTION rs, THE
w contrivRnce of keeping accounts current, of
whatever kind, description variety in printed
orm, by keeping the statements of the several nc
counts printers type. or their equivalents
the type being So arranged in form to admit of
being readily and quickly rcadjuSted i'll any pOTtiCu-
lar part, where an account may have undergone
change by tho lapse of time the of bust
ness transactions; that, when rcadjusted in all
such parts up to given date, an impression then
taken from the typo shall exhibit in printed form,
the true state of all tho accounts kept accurately
representing all tho balances or conclusions in &c
COrlance with the end or ends contemplated iii keep
ing the record; rendering It, in commercial business,
balance sheet of the most COmpnct and perfect
character, the "details of management being substa
TALLY reced III specification, wherein it is shown,
that the fact facts to be recorded, may be repre-
Sentctl by figures, symbols, dates numbers, used
either separately in combination, by whatever
else will Indicate tho fact or facts as desired: and
furthermore based on this primary invention also
claim the device or continuance of rendering
transmitting accounts in partial or full statements,
when tho statement or statements sent thus,
substantially thus, kept in type. by the contri
vances of my Invention, lie tho medium OF tTslnsmis-
sion what it InayS but the particular mode of
dering accounts by the use of the Dispatch Machine
constituted of Apron Movement Reel. and Cutter
stamp, claim in the broadcast and fullest sense; and
also the machine itsOlf embracing all its forms and
modcs of operating "a indicated in describing it.
either rs n simple hand instrument ar propelled
by machinery. And in connection with these sprci-
hc claims, and based upon them, l also claim oil
other means AMI appliances substantially the same
those herein claimed intended to be claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged aud protected
as above, this Invention has already spread itself
over Cannu, eighteen States of the American Union
and into Great Britain and is now used in more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. Its immense value
to banking and similar institutions will DO shown in
circular which will make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for information, 'Dpc,ls of
Right" sDispAtch Machines, will receive duo at
tention, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, s sSq Eete & " Y or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. Haines, London, ENGLAND.
CB- To "LEX,' who iii the Montreal Gazette of LIST
February, 1850, pronounces tho ;den' OF keeping
accounts current sin type" s''grOss absurdity."
thanks hereby rendered. and the assurance given,
that this gross absurlity is all that Mr. Dick has
patented in tho domain OF keeping accounts. Ills
claims hinder operation therein into which this
gross absurtlity is not piratcnlly Struggled in any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither d.
rcctly or indirectly; neither explicitly nor symbolic
caily; this ground his claims cover, anu nothing
more; the absolute monopoly of this Absurdty and
nothing else, is all he asks his claims, nationally
read, attest. gu sept7