Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-20
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.


ne E4reatoys Clatn5 AZ aetnowls0ed and protected
BY tie GorerRaeAts Of canada, ne United SateE,
GRd GTEut RrftGiHi 70 al luEOul Il may eoneEH.
NTHATJ CLAIM, AS aIY INVENTION IS, THE
w eontrivRnee. Of keeping accountR current, OF
whatever kind, description or variety, In printed
ora, by keePtsE the statements Of the several &C.
pEtntbfS type or their equivalents
the type being 20 arranged In form as To admit OF
being readily and quickly readJnStsd In any partIcu-
lar part, where an account may have undergone \
change, by tho lapse Of time or the current Of buS
such parts up to any given date an Impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit In printed form,
the state Of all the accounts kept accurately
representing All the balances or conclusions, in &C
eordauee with the end ends contemplated In keep
record, rendering IT, In commercial buAiness,
y balance sheet OF the most compact and perfect
character tile detRiIB Of management being 6ubstan-
TALLY aS recited in specifications wherein Il shown,
that the fact or Ects to be recorded may he repre-
sented fy figures symbols dates. or hunters uEel
either separately or In combination, by whatever
else will indicate the fact facts desired: and
furthermore, bAAed on this primary invention also
claim the device or contrivanc6 Of rendering or
transmitting accounts in partial full statements,
when the statement or statements cent thus,
or substantially thus kept In type, by the contEi-
vanees Of my invention, be the medium Of transmits
sion what it may; bat the particular mode Of rem
deTtng Rceouuts by the Of tho Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement Reel, and Cutter
stamp, claim IN the hrOadoSt and tnlest sense; and
also the machine itself, embracing all its forms and
modes, Of operating, indicated In describing tt
either simple hand instrument, or AB propelled
by machinery And in connection with thBSa Bpeci-
other mems aud appliances substantially the same
those herein ClRimed or intended to DO claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged md protected
above, this invention has alrSady spread itsSlt
over Canada eighteen States Of the American Unl0u
and Into Great Britain, and la now used in more than
three hundred Newspaper hices. Its imnenso valuS
TO banking and similar institutions will be shown In
circular which will make Its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information, eDeedS OF
Right" oE "DiSplteh Machines . will reeevO due at
tention, when addressed eithcFto
Rev. Robert, Dick, ~ E2ie 8 Is or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. HRines, London, ENcLAND-
EvTo "LEX,' who in the AnRtreal Gazette of LIST
February, 1890, prononneea the .Idea" of1Zesping
accounts current "in type" s'EroHS absurdity,S
thanks arc hereby rendered and the assurance given,
that this gross absnrdty is all that Sir. Dick haa
patented in the domain Of keeping accounts. His
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross Absurdity ia not practically Bmugged In any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither d.
Tectly or indirectly; neither explicitly Bymbol
eally; this ground hlG claims cover, aud nothing
more; tho absolute monopoly Of this NbsurdIty aud
nothing else, Is all he asks his claims, nationally
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