Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-05
DICKS. ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The hTWRtor's CTaiai Acknowledged and protected
blythe GoUernmens IF Ctn1ld, the United 2aEes,
aud Great Britafn: 70 all 'OtoHa 1t may Concern.
VTTHAT CLAIM AS NY INVENTION is, THE
w cOntriVanen Of keeping accounts current, OF
wlateVer kind, description variety, in printed
OTIn, by keeping the statements OF the several ac-
cuntSs'nndingtn printers type or their equivalents,
the type being 50 arranged 10 form rs to admit OF
einB readily and quickly readjusted Ia any partIcu-
lar part, where account may have undergone n
elHnBe by the lapse Of ttmo or the current Of bus-
ness tranSActiOHa that, when reIdJusted In all
such parts up to any given date an Impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit In printed FORM
the tTIe state OF all the accounts kept accurately
representing all the balances or conclusIons In ac
eoranee with the end or ends contemplated in keep
Ing the record; rendering 1t, In commercial business
q balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character, the details Of management being sbstan-
TALLY a. Teced in specification, wherein Il Il RhOw
that the fact OF tacts to he recorded may be repre-
Bented by figures symbOls dates, or nunibers used
either separately or In combination, by whatever
else will indicate tho fact or facts desired: and
furthermore based tliS primary invention, also
claim the device or continuance Of rendering or
transmitting in partial or full atRtenents
whom the statement or statements so sent are thus
or substantially thus, kept In type, by the cOntEi-
Tance5 Of my invention be the medium Of transinI-
sion what u may; but the particular mode OF rem.
dering accounts by the Of tho Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement, Reel, and Cutter
stamp, claim In the bFOadest aud fullest and
also the machine itself embracing all its forms and
modes OF operating, as indicated Ia describing II.
either as simple hand instrument, or as propelled
BY naehinHry. And in connection with these specI-
nc claims, and based upon them, also claim NIL
other means and appliances substantially the
as thO-e herein claimed or Intended to be claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
as above this invention has already spread itEelt
over Canada eighteen States OF the American Union,
and into Great Drtain aud Is used IN more than
three hundred Newspaper Ohiees. Itsimmense value
to banking and similar institutions will DO shown in
circular which will make Its appearance SOON
Nashville applications for information, 'Decds Of
Right" or @Displteh Machines" will receive due at
tcntlCn, when addressed either to
Rev.RObert, Dick, fs4t 9f. & r. X or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John J. IIRines, london, ENGLAND.
tR- To aLEN,' who in the Montreal Gasstte LIST
February, 1880, pronOunces the "idea" Of keeping
accounts current "in type" 'gross AbsufJlity,H
thanks are hereby rendered and the assurance given
that this gross absurlity Is all that Dir. Dick has
patented In the domain Of keeping accounts. Ills
claims hinder no operation therein Into which this
EruaS Absuritty Is not practically Struggled In any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither d.
rectly or Indirectly; neither explicitly nor SYMBOL
eallyi this ground hts claims cover, and nothing
morei the absolute monopoly OF this nbsurilty and
nothing Olse, Is all he asks as his claims ratIonaIy
reau' attest an sePt7