Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-12
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The Hre,lfors Claims acknowledged and protected
I "a, CorerHnisnts d crndid, l.e CnIed Sdlef'
and Graf Byffgf all IvhoH ii may e0aeeT7i'
JITHAT CLAIM AS NY INVENTION IS, TIE
w caniiriyAnce nf keeping accounts current %,
whatever kind, description variety ia printer
,,rts by keeping tie statements Of the several He-
counts stAndingin printers type or their
the type being arranged in foTih A. !" auII. VI
being readily and quickly readiusted in any Iareu-
lar part where an account may have undergone =
change by the lapse Of time or thu current OF busl,
transactions; 50 that when reguslen ~ M, az,
sueh parts mp 10 any given date; nm ne,
Tx N from the type shIll exhibit, in printed ,ti'
the state Of all the accounts 20 KEPT
representing all the balances or eoheiuhlphs, ~
coiJanee with the end ends contemplated IN keep
ING the record rendering IL, in commercial ou-lhe
a balance sheet Of the most compact aud perfect
t.r.tar ,j,. detail Of MANAGEMENT being substAn-
tally rs rcctcd in specification wherein II l. sAoEh'
that tho f,st or EctA to be recorded may De repre-;
sented by figures, symbols dates, or numbers ute'i
either separately or in continuation OF Dy Nlh'e'I
else will indicate the fact facts as desired; ana
furthermore bA-e ON this primary invention AiD
claim the device or cnuiriVance Of Ten1ering or
transmitting accounts in partial or full statements
when the statement statements so scnt are thh-'
or substantially thus kept in type. by the coni[l-
yaners q my Invention be the medium Of trans
sion what Il may; but the particular mode ol rem
derug accounts by tie use Of the Dispatch M1chihs
constituted Of Apron Movement. Keel Hnd cutter
stamp claim in the hTOadest and fullest seIsci and
also the machine itsel. embracing AL It's forms ana
mode. OF operating a. Indicated IN 1eSi'bii'- II;
either NJ n simple hand instrument, or as PToiellei
Nv machinery AMI Ia CONNECTION with thee -I'-ci-
ne claims, aud based upon them. also claim all
other means and appliances substantially TIE sAHe
a. those herein claimed or intended TO he eEun 81;
with thee claims fully Acknowledged and prot'ctel
~ above, this invention has already sIreAI LtseI'
over Canada eighteen States Of the American Gnon'
and into reat Britain and Is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices ltatmnense value
10 banl Ing ami similar institutions will he shown IN
a circulAr which Will make its appearance so'h:
Meanwhile applications for Information Des'is oil
Right" or "Disptteh Machines" will receive due ~
tsniIOn, when addressed either TO
Rev. Robert Dick, fSI4 HE C c ", OF
to his Agent aud Attorney,
John j. IIAInes, London, ENGLAND.
~ To LEN - who In the ros,'rsai Gazette Of ist
February 1850, pronounces the idea Of keeping
scroupts current lin tyne" '-gr0ss absurdity'
thanks are hereby rendered and the assurance gwen,
tl.f this gross a6surdity Il all that Mr. DICK las
patented in the domain OF keeping accounts. HIS
rlaitns hinder no operation therein into which ihis
gr,,ss abSnriity is not practically smugsled in any
manner: neither bodily partially neither Ut
Ta~Iy or Indirectly: neither explicitly nor symbolic
caIlv; this ground his claims cover, and noihlng
more: the absolute monopoly Of this absuFdity and
Nothing ess l. all he asks as his claims, nationally
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