Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-04
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The AHV'HtoT1 Claims az acknowledged and projected
by the GorernRsRls Of Canada, the United Sutes,
and Great Britain; to all l0EoD, 1t may concern.
WTHAT CLAIM AS MY INVENTION Is, TIE
w cuutriTance of keeping accounts current, OF
whatever kind, description or variety, in pffnted
OTm, by Keeping the statements Of the several ac-
counts standingin printers type their eqnivnlents
the type being arranged In form ~ to admit OF
being readily and quickly Teadjustel In any partic-
Tar part, where nm account may have undergone n
change, by the lapse OF time the current Of bust
ness transactions; 80 that, when reidjusted ia all
such paFts up TO any given date an impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit in printed FORM
the true state OF all the accounts 50 Kent
representing all tho balances conclusions iu nc
COrdance with the end ends cont in keep
ing Tue records rendering IT, IN Commercial business
a balance sheet Of the most Compact and perfect
character, the "details Of management bctng sIbstan-
TALLY as rccted In specification, wherein il Is shown
that the fact or facts to be recorded may be repre-
sented by hguFes, symbols, dates or numbers used
either separately ar In continuation or by uha; ever
else will Indicate the tact Facts desired: and
furthermore based on this primary invention, also
claim the device or cOntriVancc Of rendering or
transmitting accounts In partial full statements
When tue statement or statements 30 sent arc thus
or substantially thus, kept in type, by the cOntr-
TAnces of my Invention, be the medium Of transmits.
sion what u may; butthS particular mode OF rem.
deftng accounts by the Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement, Reel, and Cater
stamp claim in the bruaest and fullest sense; and
also the machine ITSELF embracing ali It's forms nd
modes, OF operating, indicated In describing IL
either rs simple hand Instrument, or ms propelled
By machinery; And In connection with thsss spcci-
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other means and appliances substantially the sane
a. Those herein claimed or intended to be claimed
With these claims fully acknowledged aRd protected
as above, this invention has already spread Itself
over Canada eighteen States Of the American Union
and into Great Britain, and Is now used In more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. Its imn,ese value
to banking and similar Institutions Will 10 showr IN
circular which will make It's appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information, "Dec,ls Of
Hight, or dispatch MAehnss will receive due at
tention' when addressed either to
Rev Robert, Dick, F re Isi, y II +, or or
to his Agent aud Attorney,
John j. Hnines, London, EivGL.iND.
~ To LEN who In The Montreal Gasstte Of LIST
February, 1890 prOnOunccs tho s.i,gca' OF keeujur
.scountA current sin typo" sgrOss GbSurdity,"
thanks arc hereby rendered, and the assurance given
that this Rruss absurlity Is all that Mr. Dick h1s
patented In the domain Of keeping accounts. Ills
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross aOsurdity Is not Piraticaly smuggled IN any
manner; neither bodily nor partially; neither d.
rctIy OF Indirectly neither explicitly nor symboli-
cally; this ground his claims cover, and nothlng
more; the absolute monopoly Of this absurdty and
nothing elso e all he asks as his claims nationally
ISs'l' arrest. "a septT