Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-30
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The EsneltorE C7aiRI az acknowledged and protected
GS ne Cossy4,RtatI Of Canada, the United Satss,
and Great BritafH; 70 all t0hOm it Ray concern.
NVYHAT CLAI3f AS ny INVENTION Is, TIIE
whatever kind, description OF variety In printed
OIra, by Eesp!3g the statements OF the several
printerE type. or their equivalents,
tho typo being - arranged in form TO admit OF
being readily and quickly readuSted IN any parcu'
lar part, where an account may have undergone
change by the lapse Of time or the current Of bust.
ness tranSActonsi that, when Teadi usted In all
such parts up to any given date. 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 eoneusIons in ae-
coTdSucs With the end ends Contemplated IN keep
ing the record. rendering IT. In commercial buSiness
4 balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character tie details Of management being Hubstan-
TALLY as rccitsd in specification, wherein it is shown
thHt the fitt OF facts to be recorded, ERy be repre-
seuted by figures symbols, dRtes or numbers, used
either separately in combination, or by whatever
else will indicate the fact or tlctA desired: and
Furthermore BASED on this primary Invention, also
claim the device or cOntriyance .: rendering or
transmitting accounts in partial full statements
when the statement statements sent thus
or substantially thus, kept in type, by the contT-
VAnees Of my invention, lie the medium Of transmits
sion what 1t may: but the particular mode Of rem
Constituted Of Apron Movement Reel, and Cutter
Etunp claim In tho hroadest and fullest sense: and
also the machine itss embracing all its forms and
either as simple hand instrument or as propelled
by machinery. And in connection with Ihsse Speoi-
!
other means and appliances substantially the same
~ those herein claimed or intended to be claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged protected
A. above, this inTeBtion has already spread itself
over Canada eighteen States OF tho American Union
and Into Great Britain, and is now used in than
three hundred Newspaper 0Giees. ItHimmsnse value
to banking and similar institutions will be shown IN
circular which Will make its appearance soon.
MeHnwhile applications for Information, "DeedS Of
Right" "Disp itch Machines" will receive due at
tsutlon, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, Fs;g Ky r.. n = r. +, or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. unines, London, ENGLAND.
SB- To "LEX,'' who In the RoH6nal Gazette OF LET
February, 1850, pronounees the ''idea" Of keeping
ACCOUNTS current "in type gross absurdity,'
thaakS hereby rendered and the assurance gwen
tbapfhis gross abrHrdlty il all that Mr. Dick hns
patented in the domain OF keeping accounts. His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
grUsA RbsurditY is not practically EmUggled in any
manner: neither bodily partially; neither d.
roctly or Indirectly; neither explicitly symbol
caly; this gruund his claims cover, and nothing
more; the absolute monopoly nj this absuTdity and
nothing else, Is all lie asks his claims, nationally
read, Attest.-d1 scptI