Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-02
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.
ne Inventors CzaiEs Acknowledged and Proteetsd
by tal GOrernnsrts st Clnada. the UHfted SsGte',


TIE EnreltoT'g CzGiES Acknowledged and Pro'eted
by TIE GorsThR,sTts ef CdHadd- the EHfted States,
0ad Graf BTi. ~ all trhOpi ii may concern.
NVTHAT CLAIAl AS Ny INVENTION is. THE
w continuance Of keeping accounts current Of
whatever kind description or variety, in printed
orra by keeping tie statements Of the several &C
counts Standng printer type or their equivalentS
the type being % Arunged in form n TO ADMIT Of
being readily snd quickly reAdiusted in any parieu-
I lar part, where an account may have undergone
ehange by the Hpse Of time the current OF buAl-
nss. transactions; 50 that when Fsanssea ~ a.,
taken from the type shs exhibit. In printed toTrn
the state Of all the accounts 20 kept accurately
representing all the balances or conclusions IN &C
eorlanea with the end ends contemplated In keep
ing the record. Rendering Il, In commercial business
a balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character. tile details Of management being Eubstan
TALLY RESTED In specification wherein IL shown
that the faft or ets 20 he recorded, may De repre-
rented by figures, symbols, dates, numbers, used
either sepATAtely or In combination or by whatever
else will Indicate the fact facts desired: and
furthermore basod on this primary invention also
claim the device eontTivanee OF rendering or
transmitting accounts In partial full statements
when the statement or statements 80 sent are thus
substantially thus, kept In type by the eontT-
Tances Of my invention. be the medium Of tTansnis
sion what it may; but the particular mode OF rem
dsrins accounts by the use Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement. Reel, and Cutter
stamp claim In the hTuadest aud fullest sense; and
also the machine ITSELF embracing all its forms and
mOdes, Of operating. ~ indicated IN describing IL,
either a. simple hand instrument, or a. propelled
by machinery. And In connection with theSe speet-
&c claims. and based upon them also CLAIM All
other means and appliances substantially the same
a. those herein claimed Intended TO be claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
As above, this invention has already spread itself
over Canada eighteen States Of the American Union
and into Great Britain, and II used in more than
three hundred Newspaper 01iees. Itstmmense value
to banking and similar Institutions will be shown In
n circular which will make its appearance soon:
Meanwhile applications for Information. Deeds OF
Right" dispatch Machines" will receive due at
3 tention, when addressed either TO
Rev. Robert, Dick, fS4t Epie q C. f. or or
7 TO his Agent and Attorney,
John j. HaInes, london, ENGLAND.
/ ~ To LEx.' who in the Montreal Gdsstte Of lst
February, 1860, pronouness the "ideS" Of keePiug
accounts current ain type "Kross absurdity,'
thanks are hereby rendered and the assurance gyen
that ths gross absurdity is all that Mr.. Dick has
patented in the domain Of keeping accounts. His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
ErUss absurdty 10 not practically struggled In any
manner: neither bodily partially; neither d.
rectly or indirectly; neither explicitly nor symbolic
eaIly; this ground his claims cover, aud nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this Absurdity and
nothing else, Is all he asks his claims, nationally
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