Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-01
DICK's, ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT. =

The HreRtoTs Claims acknowledged aud protected
BY The Governments ef CIRdd1, Gle GJliGed HatsS,
GRd Great BritdiR; 70 all 'OIOn Il Hlay eoneer1t.
WTiIAT CLAIM As Ny INVENTION IL; THE
cohtriEAnee OF keeping accounts current, OF
WhAteTeT kind, description variety, in printed
OrIR, by keeping the statements Of the several Rc-
e0untSstandnEin printer type. or their equivalents
the typo being 60 arranged In form as to admit ~
being readily and quickly Feadjusted IN any paticu
lar part, where an account may have undergone n
change, by the lapse Of time the Of busI-
mes transactions; 40 that, when rea6justsd la all
such parts up to any given date, Impression then
taken from te type shall exhibit, In printed FORM
tne as SAIs o. 81 Tue accounts 50 kept, accurately
representing all the balances or conclusions In ac-
eordance with the emil ends contemplated In keep
Ing the record; rendering Il, Ia commercial business
q balance sheet Of tue most compact and perfect
character the detalsof niAnngement being substan-
tally IS reeite in specification, wherein Il IL shown
that the TACT or facts to be recorded may be repre-
Sented by figures symbols, dates, or numbers used
either 9erAl1tcly on In combination or BY whatever
else will indicate the fact facts as desired: and
furthermore, based on this primary invention also
claim tho device or cOutrVRncs Of rendering or
transmitting accounts In partial fun statements
when the statement or statements, sent are thus
or substantially thus, kept ID type by the cOntr-
Tances OF my Invention, be the medium OF transmits
sion what Il may; but the particular mode Of rem
doFnB accounts by the use Of the Dispatch Machine
Constituted OF Apron Movement Reel. and CntteT
stamp, claim In the bFoadeSt and fullest Eenae: and
also the machine itscG embracing all its forms and
modes, OF operating, As indicated ia describing it
either - simple hand Instrument or as propelled
6S machinery. And In connection with these Epeci.
NC ClWInNS anu 1Aacu upon them, II also claim All
other tnnana and appliances TALLY the nlsR
q thoSe herein claimed or intended to be claimed
Win these claims fnlly acknowledged aad protected
a. above, this invention has already spread itself
over Canada, eighteen States Of the American Union
and Into Great Britain and Ia now used In more than
three HUNDRED Newspaper ofices ItsImmenSe value
to banking and similar Institutions will be EhoTn IN
a circular which viii make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information. "Desia Of
Right, or dispatch Machines" will receive duo at
tention, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, 3D., To-: n !, +, or
nt Ito his Agent and Attorney, ~
John j. IIaInes, Lonoloa, ENGLAND.
fsO' To "LEX," who In the NoHtreul Gazette Of LIST
February, 1880, pronounces the "Idaa5 OF keFplnR
accounts current lin type" gross absurlity,s
thanks are hereby rendered and the assurance given
that this ErOSa AbsurCity Is all that Mr. Dick has
patented In the domain OF keeping accounts. his
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross abgurdlty Is not practically TmuEgIed In any
manner; neither bodily nor partially; neither dt.
reGty Or indiTeetyi neither explicitly nor symbolic
eaIly; th1 ground his claims cover, aud nothing
moTei the absolute monopoly Of this Rbsnrdity and
nothing else, Il all he asks his claims nationally
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