Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-07
DICK's ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.


III. aUsatOrE Claial acknowledged and protected
BY the GorNrnmsMti qr Canad1, The United .Sate4,
aud Great britain; 70 al lghon IL may eoHeern.
"HAT CLAIM As NY INVENTION Is, THE
w eOntrTauca OF keeping accounts current, OF
whatever kind, description or variety I'm printed
Orm, by keeping tho statements Of the several ne
counts standing printers type their equivalents
the typo being 80 arranged in form to admit OF
being readily And quickly reRusted III any paTtIcu.
lar part, where an account may have undergone a
change, by the lapse Of time the current Of bust.
ness transactions; that, when REQUESTED in all
such parts u TO any given date, an impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit In printed FORM
the true state Of all the accounts kept, accurately
representing AL tile balances or conclusions, In
cordance with the end or ends contemplated In keep
Ing the record; rendering it, in commercial business
u balance sheet Of the most COMPACT and Derfect
character the details Of management being substau-
ttRy ~ recited in specifications wherein Il Is shown
that the fact or facts to be recorded, may be repre-
sented by hgurvs, symbos, dates, numbers, used
either separately or in combination, by whatever
else will indicate the fact facts Us desired: and
furthermore, based on this primary invention, also
claim the dcTicc or Continuance Of rendering or
transmitting accounts In partial full statements
when the statement or statements so scnl thus,
or substantially thus, kept In type by the cOntrI
vanceS OF my invention, lie the medium Of transmits
sion what Il may; but the particular mode Of rem
dernE accounts by the nse 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 nnd
modes, Of operating, M indicated In describing It,
either simple hand instrument. or Us propelIet
by machinery: Aud in connection with these spcci-
other means and appliances substantially the same
as those herein claimed or intended to be claimed
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
as above thi! Invention has already spread Itself
over Canada eighteen States OF the American Union
and into Great ritaiii, and Is used In more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. tsimmense value
to banking aud similar institutions will DO shown in
circular which will makO It's Appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information. -DeetlI Of
Right" or dispatch Machines" will receive due at
tentiOn. when addressed either To
Rev. Robert, Dick, B F4f Eof, y II II or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. HRines, LOn6sn, ENGLAND.
az To ..LEX," who In the Montreal GasstLs Of LIST
February, 1890, prOnnunees tho "iLear OF Keeping
accounts current Tin type" "grnss absurdity,F :
thanks are hereby tendered and the assurance given
that this grOSs AbGurity is all that Mr. nick mas
patentei in the domain Of keeping accounts. Ills
| claims hinder no operation therein Into which this
gross absurllty Is not piratcNIly struggled in any
manner; neither bodily nor partlRllyi neither d.
reetly or Indirectly; neither explicitly nor SYMBOL
eAlly; this ground Ills claims cover. aud nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this Ahsurdity and
nothing else, Is all he asks his claims nationally
rsaa' attest IA septI