Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-26
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The Inventors Claims aeIS0'riedgei and PToected
by tie GoucTnDas7tts Of CaHada, dc UgI,ed States,
0,td Great Britain; TO on Dat.OHs mag eo.oezy-
WHAT ICLAIM AS Ny INVENTION IS THE
w continuance Of keeping accounts current Of
whatever kind, description variety, in printed
Orm, By keeping the statements q the several &C.
counts standing In PrinteG type or their e9uvalenfs
being readily AnA quickly readjusted in any pSrtcu
lar part, where an account may have uadeTEooe \
change by the lapse Of time the current Of busi
Transactions; that when resdjusted In all
such parts up 20 any given date an impression then
taken from the typs shall exhibit in printed form
the true Of ALI the kept accurately
representing all the bsIsnces CONCLUSIONS, in
eordance with the end or ends contemplated in keep
ing the record; rendering IL. IN commercial business
= balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character the details Of management being substAn
TALLY recitsd in specification wherein 81 IL shon
that the fact facts to be recorded may be repre-
scented bJ figures syGnbOis, dates aumbers. used
either separately or in combination, by whatever
else will indicate the fact Of taets as desired: and
furthermore, based this primary invention. also
claim the device c0ntriV2nce Of rendering
transmitting accounts in partial full statements
when the statement statements sent thus.
substantially thus, kept in type. by the contII
sion what st may; 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 broadest and fullest sense; and
also The machine itself embracing all is forms and
Inodea, " operating. indicated ia describing IL
either a simple hand instrument, propelled
by machinery. Aud in connection with these sTsci-
nc claims, and based upon them. also claim all
other means and appliances substantially the same
those herein claimed or intended 10 be claimed.
With these claims fully Acknowledged aud protected
as above, this invention has already spread itself
over Canada eighteen States Of tho American Union
and into Great Britain, and is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper Othces. Its immense Valne
banking and similar institutions will be shown in
circular which will make its appearance room.
Meanwhile applications for Information, "Deeis OF
Right" "Disp Itch SachInes' will receive duo at
tention, when addressed either ~
Rev. Robert, Dick, F sSf Eot. e e T. e. or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John J. IIatnes, London, ENGLAND.
81 To "LEX," who tn the Montreal Gazette oflst
February, 1860, pronouuees the "tdea" OF keeping
Accounts current "in type" gross absurdity,"
tauIs ore hereby rendered and tho Givan,
that this gross absurdity Is all that MIR. Dick has
patented IN the domain OF keeping account. Ills
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross Absurity is not practically smuGged in any
manner: netlSr bodily nor partiallyl neither d.
Tectly or Indirectly neither explicitly symbolic
cAlIyi this ground his claims cover, aud nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this ahsurdity and
nothing else, Is all he asks his claims, nationally
read, attest.~GA sept7