Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-25
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.


The LrrsstoTs Claims GeEroavleIgei end protected
by the Goee-RBieatt If CinadI, Tie United Safes
and Gredt BritaiH; to all trLOHl II Dtcy CONCERN
WTIIAT CLAIM AS Ny INVENTION Is, THE
w c0ntrtTance Of keeping accounts current, OF
whatever kind, description or variety, in printed
OrD, By keeping the statements OF the several nc
counts standing in prnter type. their equtyalents
the type being 50 arranged in form rs to admit III
being readily md quickly Ieadjuste IN any paricu-
lar part. where an account may have undergone Il
change by the lapse Of time the current Of bust
ness transactions; that when re,tljustcd in all
such parts up TO any given date an impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit in printed FORM
the true state Of all the accounts kept, accurately
representing all the balances c0uCusions in ar
coriance with the end ends contemplated in keep
ing the record; rendering It, ia commercial business
= balanee she-t a. the most compact and perfect
character, the details Of Agenent ben. stbstau-
TALLY A. reetsl in specifications wherein Il l. shown
that tho fact facts BIO recorded may be repre-
sente'l by figures, symbols, dates, numbers used
either separately or In combination, by whatever
el$s will indicate the fact or facts AZ dssire,I and
turthermorc based on this primary invention also
claim the device or cuutTiVance Of rendering or
Transmitting accounts in partial or full statements
when the statement statements 70 sent arc Thus
or substantially thus kept in type by the contri-
vAnces Of my invention. be the mesiium OF trsnsIns
Aion what IL may; but tho particular mode Of rem
dering Aeeouuts by the use Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted of Apron Movement. Reel, and Cutter
stamp, claim in the brOadeEt fullest sense and
also the machine itself embracing all its forms and
modes, OF operating, As indicated Ia describing it,
either as a simple hand Instrument, propelled
by machinery And in connection with these speci-
hc claims and based upon them, 1 also claim ali
other means and appliances substantially the sane
as ihOsa herein calme'l or intended lie claimed
With these claims fully acknowledged and nrGtected
As above, this invention has already spread itself
over Canada, eighteen States Of tile American Union
ana into Great Britain, and Is now used in more than
three hundred NeWsp1nor0ffces. Itsiumense value
70 banking and similar institutions viii be shown In
a circular which will make Its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information, .,Dee5ls OF
hight" or "DspItch Machines' will receive due at
tenton, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, B s,,! To-: y : Z or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. TIHInes, london, ENGLAND.
~ To "LE&,'' who In the Mos,ireal Casstis Of 1st
February 1850, pronOunees the -idea" Of keeping
accounts current Gin type" gross absurdity,8
thanks are hereby rendered and the assurance siven
that this gross absurty Is all that Mr. Dick has
patented in the domain OF keeping accounts Ills
claim. hinder no operation therein into which this
Errss absurdity is not practically smuggled in any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither di-
reety or Indirectly; neither explicitly nor symbol.
cally; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this RbsurJity aud
nothing else Is all he asks his claims nationally
tead' attest az sept7