Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-04
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The Lsusntors Claims Acknowledged and Prus'eted
by Lss Gorerrmsrfs Of fanGda, 0s JHitod States,
and Great Briy, ! all IUIon It may coneeTH.
WHAT CLAIS. AS SiY INVENTION IS, THE
w continuance OF keeping accounts current OF
Whatever kind, description or variety IN prlHteu
orm, by keeping the statements Of the several &C
counts stahdingin printers type or their
the type being arranged in form as to admit OF
being readily and quickly Teadiusted ia any patteu-
lar part, where an account may have undergone
change by the lapse Of time the current OF 6us.
ness transactions; that, when readJusted IN All
such parts up TO any given date an impression teh
taken from the type shall exhibit, in printed iOTi
the tEne state Of all the accounts 80 kept accurately
representing all the balances OF conclusions, IN &C
eordaRce with the end ends contemplated in keep
ing the record rendering it, in commercial business
balance shect Of the most compact and perfect
character. the details Of management being susiA-
tally As Trcited in specification. wherein lite shown,
that thu fart facts to be recorded may be repre-
senteL by figures. symbols dates, or nunbers used
either separately in combination, or by whatever
else will indicate the fact facts as desired: and
Furthermore, based ON this primary invention also
claim the device or Continuance of rendering or
Transmitting accounts in partial full statements
when the statement OF statements 50 sent are thus
or substantially thus, kept in type, by the eontT-
Of my invention. be the medium Of tT'nsFn>-
sion what IL may: Int the particular mode oi rem
dering accounts by the Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted OF Apron Movement. Reel and Cutter
stamp claim in the hruAdest and fullest sense; and
asS the machine itself. embracing all its forms and
modes of operating As indicated In describing It,
either rs a simple hand instrument. or as nrupeliei
by machinery Ana IN connection win tLlt-e sIeS-
&c claims. and based upon thefa. also claim all
other means and appliances substantially the same
those herein claimed or 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 Unton
and into Great Britain and Is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices ltsiminense VHine
to banking and similar institutions will be shown IN
a circular which will make it, appearance soon:
Meanwhile applications for Information Deeds OF
Right or -Displfch Machines" will receive due at
tentiOn. when addressed either to
Rev. Robert Dick FJ1s Erie, G. W., or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. HaInes, London, ENGLAND.
E-T To .LEX,H who in the Roafrsdl CARTE Of LIST
February. ls6O, pronOunets the 'idezG" OF keeping
accounts current l'ln type" ''croSs absuTdity-"
thanks are hereby rendered. and the assurance given
that this gross Absnrdty Is all that Mr.. Dick has
patented ia the domain Of keeping accounts. His
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
grUss absurtity is not practically smuEgled in any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither d.
TeCtly or Indirectly neither explicitly nor symbol
cAlIy this ground his claims cover. and nothing
more: the absolute monopoly Of tls absurdity and
nothing else is all he asks his claims, nationally
read attCst.~6n sept