Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-30
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

Tie IHreAorI CtaiHIE ~ aeLsrle50sd ami protected
By he CoreTHbeafs ~ C'rHgdd, Ire ENii,i States,
and Cr.a, Bei,ai all isAoDi it HIay e""ee17'.
NITHAT ICLAIM As Ny INVENTION Is, TIKI
w eoufTiyaneo 81 keeping accounts current OF
whatever kind. description or vsriety, in printed
nrm by keeFi-g the rtatements a the several ac-
counts standinS ia PrinteTs type OF their
the type being ~ arranged in form 10 admit OF
being readily aud quickly readiusted In any PArttcn-
lar part where account may have undergone
change by the lapse Of time the current It bush
I,t-S transactions; ~ that when reSdjusted in all
such tAFfs IN to any given date Impression then
taken frUH the type ahail exhibit in printed ioTin
the true state Of all the accounts kept. arcuTptey
TepTesentiug all the balances conclusions, in ac-
guidance with tLe end ends contemplated in Keep
ia: The record. rendering IL In conrleTeA bushes
- balance sheet OF the noel compact and pefieet
character, ti,e details III management being suJtan-
tAliy recitrii in specifications wherein It sOWi
tlst tlie tut Erts To DO recorded may Ue repre-
rsnt.s Nv gslrss tInLols date. numbers. used
either separately IA combination. by whatever
else will Indicate the TART facts As desired: sud
ibaIe l+d this primary invocation. also
claim the drVics cJntTiNalee 81 rendering "f
Transmitting aS'0untr iva partial or full sfpterentH
VIII, the statement oT statements sent are thus,
substantially thus, kept III type by the eontIl-
Vacra Of my Invention, be- the medium Of transmits
si0I what IL may; bnt the particular uOfe Of rem
dering accounts bS the at the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement Reel. aud Cutter
stam claim in the hTUAdest aud fullest sense; and
sS the machine itself embracing all its forms and
modes, Of operating indicated in describing it,
either n simple hand Instrument or ~ propelled
Ly machinery. And IN connection with these spect-
nc claims, ana hastI upon ihrin HlAo Claim MI
other and appliance substantially the same
those herein claimed Or intended To be claimed
With these claims fully acknowledge aud protected
- above, this Invention hAs already spread itseli
ever caiIti eighteen States Of the American Union,
and ihtn Great Britain mud il now used In MOTE than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. Itsininense value
60 banking aud similar institutions will be shown IN
u circular which will make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for information Deeds OF
Right, Disp LtelI Machines" will receive due at
Irntion, when addressed eithor to
Rev. Robert, Dick, P fs9, ri. C C. ", OF or
TO his Agent aud Attorney,
-1 John j. HaInes, london, ENGLAND.
~ To LEX who in the Montreal Gdsssss of1st
February, lS6O, pronounces The ,-idea" of keeping
hceonntS current Elm tyre" sgruss absurdity,'
thanks are hereby rendered and the assurance gwen
that this gross bsrdity is all that MIR. Dick has
patented In tho domain OF keeping accounts. His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
ru-- absurlity Is not practically struggled in any
Inaunsr: neither bodily partially; neither di-
reetly Indirectly; neither explicitly nor symbol
callS; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
more: the absolute monopoly OF this absurdity and
nothing else 4 all he asks his claims, nationally
read. atte4t. IA sept