Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-24
DTcKas ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

77s Esesl0Ts C7dfnisns de7sorieyed aud protected
GydAe Gorznments Of CaH1dd, the United States,
and Great Britai oil rrhoa II may concern.
WHAT CLAIsI AS Ny INVENTION IS, THE
w contTivanre Of keeping accounts current, o.
whatever kind, description or variety, In printeu
nrm. by keeping The statements Of the seveEsl g
standinRin printcTs type. OF their
the type being arranged in form as 10 adrni. Oh
being readily and quickly readjustcd in any partcu-
lar part, where an account may nave unuetEU,uS s
change by the lapse of time or the current OF Us
ness transactions; that. whom reAdJusted IN 1ll
Guel paFts nm to any given date, an impression then
takon from The tyne shall exhibit, In printed torI
the true state Of all the accounts 70 in ~
representing all the balances or coneiusons IN
coTdanco with the end OF ends contemplated IN hee
in the reeoed, rendering II, In commeIc,al PuslLe
balance sheet OF the most compact anu IeL 1870
character the details Of management being supsta-
tsy AZ r-cted In specification, wherein 1t te shown,
that the G,tt fcts TO be recorded, may De repre-
"A Nv fiV,rea sYrnbols dates, or numbers, used
either separately or In combination, or by Whatever
else will indicate the fact or facts "a desred ana
furthermore based this primary invention, also
claim tho device or eontrivance Of rendering or
Transmitting accounts in partial or full statements
when the statement or statements 50 sent are mus
or substantially TINS, kept in type. by tho contri-
yances If my invention. be the medium of transmits
sion what it may; hat the particular mode OF rem
dSring accounts by the Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement, Reel and Cutter
stamp claim in the broadcast and fullest sense; ana
also the machine ftselI. embracing all its forms ana
modes OF operating, indicated In describing II.
either as = simple hand instrument, CT as propelled
by machinery. And IN connection with those speci-
nc claims, and based upon them, also claim an
other means and appliances substantially the saHe
as those herein claimed orintended to be claimed;
with these claims fully acknowledged and protected
rs above. this invention has already spread itseiI
over Canada eiRhtsOu States Of the American Union
anint Great Britain, and Is now used In more than
three hundred Newspaper ofhees. Itsimmense value
10 banking and similar institutions will be shown IN
a circular which will make its appearance soon:
Meanwhile applications for information, Deeds CT
Right" Dispatch Machines' VIII receive due AT
tenllon, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, FS 9gq Eic &C C. u, or
TO his Agent and Attorney,
John j. Haines, London, ENGLAND. .
eBTo "LEX,'' who in the Montreal Gazette of LIST
February, 1880. pronounces the idea" Of keeping
accounts current Tin typo" gross nbsurdity,"
thanks are hereby rendered. and tho assurance gwen
that this gross a6surity is all that Dir. Dick has
patented in the domain of keeping accounts. ne
Claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gruss absurdty is not practically smuggled in any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither d.
rcctIy or Indirectly; neither explicitly nor symbol
calIy; this ground his claims cover. aud nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this absurdtty and
nothing else is all he asks his claims, nationally
rssd afteSt "a sept7