Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-31
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The Inventors clails aenoVle,gCd and protected
by tie Governments Of CtiHada, ne U1aitcd AateS
and Graf Byitdi all ,rloa Il may concern.
TITHAT CLAIM As NY INVENTION IS, THE
w cJuiriyance Of keeping accounts current OF
whatever kind, description or variety, II pflnteu
oTm, By keeping tie statements Of the several nc
o1untsstandiu printers type or their equivalents
the type being 20 arranged in form to admit OF
being readily and quickly rediustcd in any pArtieu-
lar part, where an account may have undergone q
change. by the lapse Of time or the current Of busi,
mes transactions; that when REQUESTED IN all
such parts up to any given date an impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit, in printed tnr1,
she tTus state Of all the accounts 50 kept accurately
representing all the balances OF coheiuslous IN HE
c1rIance with the end ends contemplated IA Keep
ing the record rendering it, In commercial business
n balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character, the details Of management being subztan-
TALLY a. recitsd ia specification wherein il i shown
that the fact facts to be recorded, may De repre-
ssnted by figures symbols, dates, or numbers, used
either separately or In combination, or by whatever
else will indicate the fact facts desired and
Furthermore, based On this primary invention, also
claim the device or continuance OF rendering OF
transmitting accounts in partial or full statements,
when the statement or statements sosent are thus,
substantially thus, kept in type, by the e"ntiI
yapces Of my invention, he the medium Of transmits
sion what it may; but the particular mode Of rem
dcrng accounts by the Of tile Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement. Reel, and Cutter
stamp claim in the broadest and fullest sense; and
also the machine itsel embracing all its forms and
NODES Of operating, rs indicated in describing Il,
either a. simple hand Instrument or rs propelled
By machinery. And in connection with these spect-
hc claims, and based upon them also claim all
other Iueans and appliances substantially tile sune
a. those herein claimed intended 10 be claimed.
with these claims fully acknowledged and protected
above. this invention has alTeady spread Itself
over Canada eighteen States Of the American Union,
and into Great Britain, and Is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. Itsimmensev aiue
banking aud similar Institutions will be shown in
y circular which will make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for information, "Deeds Of
Right" or "D-pltrh Machines will receive due at
tentiOn, when addressed either to
Rev.Robert, Dick, F f5s E2is e. " or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. IIaInes, london, ENGLAND.
I1- To ''LEX,'' who in the Wonired! Castle oflst
February, 1aGO, pTonOunees the sidea" Of keeping
accounts current sin type ..gross absurdity,"
thanks are hereby rendered. aud the assurance given,
that this gross absurlty Il all that Mr.. Dick has
patented in the domain Of keeping accounts. His
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross absurdty is not practically snuggled in any
manner: neither bodily partially; neither di-
FectIy or Indirectly; neither explicitly symbolic
cilly; this ground his claims cover, aud nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this absuTJiity and
nothing else. is all he asks his claims nationally
read. attcst.-zA sept1