Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-25
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The InUeHtorS CLAIMS as dckHosDleqcd ard protected
by the GOrsrnDeats Of Ci1ngdg, tie United Stats5,
and Great Hrit0iH: to all ichos, il ray concern.
WTHAT ] ,LAIM AS NY INVENTION Is, THE
w cOntTiVancs Of keeping accounts current, oil
whatever kind, description or variety, in printed
OrDa. by keeping tie statements of the several ae
sandtngin printer type, or their equivalents,
the type being arranged in form to admit uI
being readily and quickly readiu=ted ia any pBrticu-
lar part, where account may have undergone u
change by the lapse Of time or the current Of busl
ness transactions; that when resiliusted in all
such parts up to any given date, impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit, ia printed FORM
the IuS nuAt" q an 1ne accounts 20 kept AcSuA1eiy
representing all the balances OF CONCLUSIONS, In ac
eOTdanCe with the end or ends contemplated in keep
Ing the record, rendering it, In commercial business
4 balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character tho details of mana cement being substnn-
TALLY recitsd in specification, wherein is shown
that the tact or facts to be recorded, may be repre-
seated by figures symbols, dates, or numbers, used
either separately or in combination, by whatever
else will indicate the fact facts desired: and
furthermore based ON TINS primary invention, ats"
claim the device or contrivAnce Of rendering or
transmitting accounts In partial full statements,
when the statement or statements sent are thus,
or substantially thus, kept IN type. by the contr-
of my invention. he the medium Of transmits
sion what II may; but the particular mode If rem
derng H"cnuuts by the use of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement, Reel, and Cutter
stamp claim In the hrOadest and fullest sense; and
also the machine itseI embracing all its forms and
modes Of operating indicated in describing IT,.
either as simple hand instrument, A. propelled
BY machinery. And in connection with these speci-
&c claims and based upon them, also claim all
other means aud appliances substantially the same
a thO.e herein claimed intended to be claimed,
WIKI these clBitns fully acknowledged and projected
as above, this invention has already spread itself
over Canada eighteen States Of the American Union,
and into Great Britain and is used in more than
three HUNDRED Newspaper Ofieee. Itsimmense value
ia banking and similar Institutions will he shown in
circular which will make it, appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for information. Deeds Of
Right or Displtc Machines" will receive due at
tention, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, a4s E9i. y . Il r. or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. HaInes, London, ENGLAND.
~ To s'LEX, who in the Neutral GGrette Of LIST
February, 1880, prOnonnces the ''idea' of keeping
accounts current sin type ''gross absurdity,''
thanks hereby rendered. and the assurance given
that this gross absurllty Is all that MIR. Dick has
patented in the domain Of keeping accounts. Ills
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross nbsurity is not practically smuGgled in any
manner: neither bodily partially; neither d.
rectly or Indirectly neither explicitly nor symbol;-
caily; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
m0re the absolute monopoly Of this ahsurllty and
nothing else, is all he asks his claims nationally
read, attest 4Eh Eept7