Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-25
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

Tie LarcIEtor;= Claims acknowledged ana protected
by tLe Goreynu.s1ts IF cznaaia, tic T5rfssd Sat.a,
esd Grcat Brifsin: to Gil 1gho,E II may concern.
UTHAT CLAIM AS Ny INVENTION Is, THE
w cOntTivauce OF keeping accounts current Of
Whatever kind. description variety, III printed
orm, by keeping the statements Of the several az
counF- standing in priuterr type or their equEslenfs
the type being SO arranged ~ form as 70 nurnit II
being readily 4nd quickly reAdjusts ia any pGrtcu
lar par1, whore account may have undergone
change. by the lapse Of time the current Of busi
ness transactions; that when readjuEtsd in all
such parts up any date IN impression then
taken from the tvpp shall exhibit IN printed form.
the tr1e state ell the kept accurately
representing all the balances CONCLUSIONS IN
cordance with the end ends cuutenplst I'd in keep
ing the record rendering IL III commercial business,
balance sheaf Of ths most cVlnpsct and perfect
character the details OI management being 5ubstRn
TALLY rscitd in specification wherein II is shown,
that tue tt or fArte 70 be recorded may be repre-
EeDtSd by figures symbols dates numbers, Used
either separately in combination, 10y whatever
else viii indicate the fart IAGts NS desired: and
Furthermore, based this primary invention also
claim the device eoutrivaDce OF rendering
transmitting accounts IN partial or full statements
when the statement or statements sent are thus,
substantially thus, kept in type by the CODtT1-
vance, Of my Invention. be the medium OF transmits
sion what il may: iut the particular mode Of rem
doring Rccouuts by the use Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement. Reel. and Cater
scamp claim in the brnadesf and fullest sense: and
Aiso the nAchiue iHeL eInbr1eInE al lie ioIins no
mOdes. Of operating. indicated in describing it
either simple hand inSi runrut, or propelled
By machinery Aud in connection with these speci-
DC claims and based upon them also claim all
other aud appliances substantially the same
Is those herein claimed or intended to be claimed
With these clAi'ns fully Acknowledged and protected
shove this invention has already sT-es.d itself
over Canada eighteen States Of the American C:on,
and iuto Great Britain. and il used in than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. Its immense value
banking and similar Institutions will be shown IN
a circular which viii make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for inor,nEtiUn. Deeds Of
Right ~Disp itch Hfschines. viii receive due at
tontion- when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, P FIX E9ie C e " Y or or
10 his Agent and Attorney.
John j. IaIneS, London, ENGLAND.
EW-To LEX who in the Montreal Castle Of LIST
February, 1863, pronouHces the .'idea" Of keeping
accounts current sin type" gross absurlity,h
thAns hereby rendered and the assurance given,
that this grosE absur1ity IS all that Mr. Dick has
patented in the domain Of keeping accounts. Ills
elaine hinder operation therein into which this
gross Gbsurdity IS not practically sInugEed in any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither di-
Fectly Indirectly; neither explicitly symbol
eaily; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
aore; the absolute monopoly OF this HLeurdity aud
nothing else ia all he Nsks As his claims, nationally
read aftest. ga sept7