Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
nTSpATCE PATIENT

n, lHrslfoF's Claims ACKNOWLEDGED and p5Ctethd
byte GorsT7Imsnts Of cilnada, tss IRit,i safes,
and Great B-isaiz: TO al trl.oar Il 5dy concern.
VXvHNT i CLAIM AS MY INVENTION Is, THE
w cOntrivAntA Of keeping accounts current OF
Whatever Kind, description or variety, in printed
by keeping TIE statements .! the several as
standing printers type. their equivalents,
the type being arranged in form as to admit OF
being readily and qaicky Ieadjusied in any Partieu
lar part, where account may have undergone
change, by the lapse Of time the current Of bush
ness Transactions; that when REQUESTED In all
such parts mp 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 all the balances or conclusious IN Ae
eCrdRnes with the end ends Contemplated In keep
tnsthe record, rendering il, 10 commercial business
a balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
Character, tie details Of management being subStAn-
italy reed in specification, wherein it j. shown
that the lart or cts 70 be recorded may be repre-
sented by figures, Eymbols, dAtes, numbers. used
either separately In combination, or by whatever
else will indicate the fact facts desired: and
Furthermore baIed on this primary invention, also
claim the device Continuance Of rendering OF
Transmitting accounts in partial OF full statements,
when tho statement or statements 20 sent thus,
OF substantially thus kept In type: by the eontri.
vances OF my invention, be the medium Of transmit
zion what it may; but the particular mode Of rem
lering SccouutA by the Of the Dispatch Machine
Constituted Of Apron Movement. Reel. and Cutrer
stamp, claim in the hroadest and fullest SsnEe and
Alss the machine iissl embracing all lis forms and
modes, of operating, indicated in describing IT,,
either simple hand Instrument, a. propelled
by machinery And In connection with these sPeci-
Alu OASeu upon lIleAl. a.so Sl1Aul
other means and appliances substantially the sane
thu>a herein claimed iutsned to be claimed.
With these claims flly acknowledged and protested
above this invention has already spread Itself
Canada eighteen States Of the American Unlon,
and Into Great britain, and Is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper ohiees- ItHimmensevalue
to banking and similar Institutions will be shown In
4 circular which viii make its appearance son.
Meanwhile applications for in'ormatou- DEEDS Of
Right" .'DspLtel, Machines" vElI resolve due
tention, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, 1 f.7s gss &C H. +, or or
to his Agent aud Attorney,
John J. Haines, London, ENGLAND.
~ To LEX who In the Montreal GG.stts Of lst
February, 1879, prOnounees the idea" Of keeping
accounts current sin type, .SrOss absurdity,H .
tanks hereby rendered and the assurance given,
that this gross RtsIrdity Is all that Nr. Dick has
patented in the domain Of keeping accounts His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
gross absurdity IL net practically smuEgled in any
manner: neither bodily nor partially neither d.
Tectly Indirectly; neither explicitly symbol
caIly; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
more; the absoIuts monopoly of this AbSurdty and
nothing else, is all he asks as his claims, nationally
read. attest @6A sePtj