Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-15
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The MpetOrs CldiHt5 az acknowledged aud protected
By TIE Governments Of CtlnadG, Gte United SIteJ,
and Great BrNdiN; to all Icaom it may concern.
w HAT CLAIM AS NY INVENTION IS, THE
w eontrtvanee Of keeping accounts current, OF
whatever kind, description or variety, in printed
orp, by keeping tie statements Of the several ac-
printers type, their equivalents,
the type being 50 arranged in form as to admit oil
being readily and quickly reAdIusted IN any particu-
lar part, where an account may have undergone
change by the lapse Of time the current Of bus-
transactions; that, when Teadjusted In all
such parts mp to any given date, impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit, In printed form,
the true state Of all the accounts 30 kept accurately
representing all the balances conClusiOns in
eordRnee with the end ends contemplated in keep
ing the record rendering t. In commercial business
balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character, the details Of management being substaE-
TALLY rscited i'll specification wherein IL IL shown,
that the fart facts to be recorded, may repre-
ssnte1 by figures, symbols, dates, numbers, used
either AepaIptely or In combination, by whatever
else will indicate the fact facts desired and
furthermore. based this primary invention also
claim the device or continuance Of rendering
trHnBmitting accounts in partial full statements,
when the statement or statements sent are thus.
or substantially thus kept In type, by the contri
Of my invention, be the medium of transmits
sion what il may; hut the particular mode Of rem
dering accounts by the Of the Dispatch Machine
contributed OF Apron Movement, Reel, aud Cutter
stamp, claim in the hroadest and fullest senses and
also the machine itself, embracing all it's forms and
modes, Of operating indicated in describing Il,
either as simple hand instrument, or as propelled
by machinery. And In connection with these speci-
ne claims and based upon them, also claim all
other means and appliances substantially the
e. those herein claimed or intended to be claimed.
With these claims fully Acknowledged aud protected
above this invention has already spread itself
over Canada eighteen States Of the American Union,
aud into Great Britain and Is now need In than
three hundred Newspaper 0fiees ItsImmenke ValuA
70 banking and similar Institutions will be shown In
= circular which will make Its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information, Deeds Of
Right" or Dispatch Maehnesn will receive due at
tsntiOn, when addressed eithor to
Rev. Robert, DICK, s Fs{ H. 3 x =. or or
to bis Agent aud Attorney,
John j. Haines, London, ENGLAND.
F9- To .LRX," who In the Montreal Gasette Of LIST
February, 1880, prOnOuhces the ''idsH" Of keeping
accounts current "in type ''gross absurdity,"
thanks hereby rendered and the assurance gfvsn
that this gross absur1ty Is all that Sir. Dick has
patented In tho domain Of keeping accounts His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
grUss absurlty Is not practically Amuggled in any
manner: neither bodily nsr partially; neither di.
rectly or indirectly; neither explicitly symbolic
callyi this ground his claims cover, aud nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this absurdity and
nothing else. is all he asks as his claims, nationally
read, attest IA Kspt7