Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-19
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The hsretorf C7GiplE as acknowledged and protected
blythe Governments Of caRada, the United Sates,
and Great Britain; to al '0toni 1t may eoReeTn.-
WHAT CLAIM AS Ny INVENTION IS. THR
w continuance Of keeping accounts current, OF
whatever kind, description variety, In printed
orR, by keeping the statements Of the several ae-
counts printers type their equivalents
the type being 20 arranged IN form as to admit Of
being readily and quickly readjusted ia any particu
, lar part, where an account may have undergone a
change BIZ the lapse of time or the current of bus
II nsActions; NJ that, when readjusted in all
such lrtB mp to any given date an impression then
taken from the type shsll exhibit, In printed FORM
the true state OF all the accounts 80 kept accurately
representing all the balances conclusions in ac
coriancs With the end ends contemplated in keep
ing the record rendering It, in commercial business
\ balanc" shHt't OF the most compact aud perfect
character, the details Of management being sustAn-
TALLY rrcite in specification, wherein lite shown
that tie tart or facts to be recorded, may be repre-
ssnted by hgureA, symbols- dates or numbers. used
either separately or in combination, or by whatever
else will Indicate the fact or facts as desired: aud
Furthermore, based this primary invention / also
claim the device OF contTiTRnce Of rendering or
Transmitting ACCOUNTS in partial full statements
when the statement or statements sent are thus
substantially TINS, kept 10 type by tho contTi.
Of my invention, be tho medium of transmits
sion what It may; but the particular mode of rem.
deTnE accounts by the OF the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement. Reel, aud Cutter
Stamp1 claim in the hroadeSt and FULLEST sense; and
alec the machine ttsel. embracing all its foFnE and
modes, Of operating, indicated In describing IT.
either a. simple hand Instrument. or as propelled
by machinery. And in connection with these speei-
other means and appliances substantially The Eame
a. those herein claimed intended to be claimed,
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
IS above, this invention has already sprsa itself
over CanadA eighteen States Of the American Union
and into Great Britain, and is now used in more than
three hundred Newspaper 0fiets. ItsimmenRe valuS
to banking and similar institutions win be- shown IN
circular which will make it5 Appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for IN ormation, s@DeedS Of
Right" or "Dispttch Machines" will receive ue al
toution, when addressed eitherto
Rev. Robert, Dick, Erie s,f To-, y r r or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. HRineS, london, ENGLAND.
tE- To LEX" who In the Montreal Gazette Of LIST
February, 1880, pronouneeS the 'idea" OF keeping
accounts current ''in type" gross absurdity,"
thanks are hereby rendered, and the srnnce given
that this grOas absurdity is all that Mr. Dick has
patented in the domain OF keeping accounts. His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
gross absurdity Is not practically smugglcd in any
manner: neither bodily ner partially; neither d.
rectly OF indirectly; neither explicitly symbolic
cally; 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. "a l--E. reptT