Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-02
DrcK,s ACCOUNTANT AND
DTSPATCH PATENT.

The E7rsHtOs CiIiUlE acknowledged aud protected
/ byte GorsrnmeHis Of caHadG, ths UHit,d States,
| aud Grsat Briidi all tVbO1t it may concern.
WHAT CLAIM AS NY INVENTION IS, THE
w eOntriVanee OF keeping accounts current, %
whatever kind, description or variety, In printed
oTn, by keeping the statements Of the several &c
counts sandingin printers type or their equTalehts
the type being 90 arranged in form IS to admit OF
being readily aud quickly readjusted in any pArteu-
/ lar part where an account may have undergone
change by the lapse Of time or the current OF Da
ness TRANSACTIONS; that, when road1usted In all
such parts up any given date an impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit, In printed torIn
the true state Of all the accounts 30 kept accurately
representing all the balances or conclusions IN Ae
eordance with the end ends contemplated In keep
Ing the record. rendering IL, in commercial business
balance sheet Of the most compact ana perfect
character the details Of management being substAn-
TALLY recied in specification, wherein II u shown,
that the fact or facts % be recorded, may be repre-
sentet by figures, symbols dates, OF numbers, used
either separately In cOmbpntion, or by whatever
else will indicate the fact facts as desred and
furthermore based this primary invention, also
claim the device or continuance Of rendering or
Transmitting aesOunts In partial or full statements
when the statement or statements so sent are thus
o. Substantially thus kept in type, by the contTi-
Vances OF my invention be the medium Of transmits
sion what Il may; but the particular mode OF rem
,lerfna accounts by the Of the Dispatch Machine
] constituted Of Apron Movement Reel, and Cutter
stamp claim In the hrUaest aud fullest sense: and
Ala The machine itseli embracing all Its forms and
modes. VI operating, indicated In describing IL.
either simple hal instrument, or as propelled
I by machinery And in connection with these specl,
other means and appliances substantially the same
~ those herein claimed or intended to be claimed
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
as above this invention las already spread Itself
over Canada eighteen states Of the American Union,
and into Great Britain, and Is now used in more than
three hundred Newspaper offiees Itsimnense value
to banking and similar institutions VIII be shown Ia
u circular which will make its appearance soon:
Meanwhile applications for Information. Deeds OF
Right or .Displteh Machines" will receive due at
tention, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, 9S4t Epe &C e " or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. Haines, london, ENGLAND.
~ To "LEX,' who ia the Montreal Gazette Of LIST
| February 1860 pronounees the idea" Of keeping
| accounts current ''in type" gross absurdty,"
thanks arc hereby rendered and the assurance given,
that this gTrss a6surdity Is all that Mr.. Dick has
patented in the domain Of keeping accounts Ills
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross absurIity Is not practically Struggled in any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither di-
rectly or Indirectly; neither explicitly nor symbolic
calIy; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
mofe the absolute monopoly Of this absurdlty and
nothing else Is all he asks his claims, nationally
read Attest!-6A septI