Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-01
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The EaretOF's CTdiRS acknowledged GndProtset'd
6yhe GorsrRnentI Of C1ndda, the United Slater,
and Grodt Britdi all tshOH Il may eoHoeTH'
WHAT CLAIM AS NY INVENTION IS TIL.
w oOutriTance Of keeping accounts CURRENT OF
whatever kind, description or variety, IN printed
OrnI, by keeping the statements Of the several &C
counts stndngin printeFs type or their equivalents
the type being 50 arranged in form as 10 admit OF
being readily and quickly readiusted In any Parteu
lar part. where An account may have undergone q
change, by the lapse Of time the current OF busl
ness transactions; that, when REQUESTED in all
such parts up to any given date an impression taeh
the state Of all the accounts kept accurately
representing all the balances conclusions in &C
cOrdAnce with the end ends contemplated In keep
ing the record rendering It, in commercial business
a balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character the details Of management being subsan-
TALLY recied in specifications wherein II y shoWn
that the Fart Or facts be recorded, may be repre-
sentel by figures, symbols, dates, numbers, used
either separately or in combination OF by whatever
else willindicate the fact facts desired: and
furthermore based on this primary invention also
claim the device continuance Of rendering or
transmitting accounts In partial or full statements
when the statement statements 80 sent are thus,
or substantially thus, kept in type by the cOntTi-
Vances Of my invention, be the medium OF transmits
sion what Il may; but the particular mode Of rem
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 its forms and
mo,les, Of operating, ~ indicated in describing IT.
either a simple hand Instrument, or as propelled
by machinery. And In connection with these spec-
hc claims, and based upon them, also claim all
other means anil appliances substantially the same
a those herein claimed OF intended to be claimed
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
above, this invention has already spread itself
over Canada eighteen States Of tho American Union,
and into Great Britain, and Il used In more than
three hundred Newspaper lices. Itsimmense value
10 banking and similar institutions will be shown in
n circular which will mako it's appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information, Deeds oil
Right" "Dspateh Machines" will receive due at
tention, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, I5Ts Ets *; " ", or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. IIaInes, London, ENGLAND.
r. To ALEX who in the Montreal Castle Of 1st
February, 1850, pronounces the ''idea" Of keeping
accounts current %in type gross absurdity,"
thanks are hereby rendered, and the assurance given,
that this gross a6surdity is all that Mr.. Dick has
patented in the domain Of keeping accounts. His
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross absunlity Is not practically struggled In any
manner: neither bodily ner partially; neither d.
rcctly Indirectly; neither explicitly symbol
cally: this ground his claims cover, aud nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this absurdty and
nothing else, Is all he asks as his claims, nationally
read, attest.=da septI