Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-29
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
nTSPATCH PATENT.

Ehs Tareator's Claias aeiorledgod aHd protected
by EIs GopsrHB.ents 81 CIHd2G, LLe CHitod Siascs,
and Great BTiiai (: all ,0houl Il may eOHeerii.-
XHTHAT CLAIM AS sly INVENTION Is, THE
w cOntriyance Of keeping accounts Current 90
whatever kind, description variety, in printed
ora. by keeping tie statements Of the several Ae'
counts stRndngn priutcTa type or their equivalents,
the type being 80 arranged in form as TO admit OF
beIng readily snd quickly readiusted In any paTticu-
Lar part, ThaTe an account may hare undergone =
change, by thu lapse Of time the current Of bus
mesa transactions; that, when readJusted In al
saeh parts up any Eisen date. an impression thon
fsken from the typo shall exhibit In printed toTIn,
the tus state Of all the accounts kept, accurately
representing all the balances nr cOncluaoI In &C
rlrdaues with the end ends contemplated in keep
the recoTd rendering It. In commercial business,
a balance sheet Of tho most compact and perfect
chaFAeier, tie details Of management being substNt-
TALLY Teeitsd In specification, wherein IL e shown,
that the tart facts 10 be recorded, may be repre-
sented by figures, symbols, dates, NUMBER, used
either separately or in combination, by whatever
else will indicate tho met facts deslrcd and
Furthermore, laied on this primary invention also
claim the device cOntTiyRnee Of rendering or
transmitting accounts in partial full statements,
when the statement or statements sent thus,
or Substantially thus, kept in type by the cUntri-
VanceS Of my Invention, be the medium Of transmits
sion what Il may; bat the particular nnde Of rem
darinG accounts 10y the use Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement, Reel, aud Cutter
stamp, claim In the hroadest and fullest sense; and
also the machine itself embracing all It's forms and
modes, Of operating ~ indicated In describing IL
either simple hand instrument, or a. propelled
by machinery. And in connection with these speei-
! &c claims, and based upon them, Alto claim all
other means and appliances substantially the Eams
a. those hSTeln claimed intended TO be claimed.
With these claims fully Acknowledged and protected
a. above this invention has already spread itselt
Canada, eighteen States Of the American Uuon,
and into Great Britain and Is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper Otnoes. ltsimmenseyal
to banking and similar Institutions will be shown in
circular which will make Its appearance sOon.
Meanwhile applications for Information "Decda Of
Right" "DispIteh Machines" will receive duo At
iontion, when addressed sIthOF to
REV. Robert, Dick, s ss9s III, q & f. f. or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. HRines, London, ENGLAND.
~ To LEX" who in the Montreal GaEstte of LIST
February, ls60 pronounees the .sideA" Of keeping
accounts current ain type" "gToss absurdity,"
thanks hereby rendered and the assurance given,
that this gross absnrdity Ia all that Sir. Dick HIS
patented In the domain of keeping accounts His
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
grOss absurdity is not practically Struggled in any
manner: naither bodily nSr partially; neither d.
Tectly indirectly; neither explicitly nor symbol
cally; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
moro: the absolute monopoly Of tliS absurdlty and
nothing else. is all he aSkS his claims nationally
read, attest. "a sept