Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-11
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

Tie byeatOrf CiafBtS AZ Acknowledged and PrOthted
! b. he Gooer1asatf If CaHada, tie Eaited !Sates,
ana Great Brian; to all ssiom II Blay eoHosyl.
! NyHAT CLAI1l AS NY INVENTION IS, THE
eOntriv3nee Of keeping accounts current, Of
/ Whatever kind, description variety, in printed
OrDl, by keeping the statements Of The several ac-
couatsstandingin printers type their equivalents
the tyPe being 50 arranged In form to admit OF
being readily and quickly adjusted Ia any p7rticu
/ lar part, where an account may have undergone
change by the lapse Of time the current Of busi
fTsDSaetionsi 20 that, when rzAdJustel in all
such parts up TO any given date impression then
the tru state % all the accounts kept accurately
representing AL the balances u conclusions In aC
eoEdance with the end or ends contemplated in keep
ing the record, rendering IT, 10 commercial business
! balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
Character, tue details u management being sutnu-
tally a. Tced In speeiheafiOn, wherein il l. shown
that the ftt or facts 20 be recorded may De repre-
sebted by figures, Symbols dates, or Numbers, used
either SEPARATELY in combination, or by whatever
else viii Indicate tue tact OF facts desired: and
furthermore. bssed this primary itventah also
/ claim the device contTiYanee Of rendering ur
transmitting accounts in partial OF full statements
when the statement or statements 20 sent are thus
or Substantially thus, kept in type. by the eontr
vanees Of nay invention, be the medium OF transmits
sion what it may; but the particular mode Of rem
derinE accounts by the Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement Reel, and Cutter
stamp, claim In the broadest and fullest sense; and
also the machine tsUlf, embracing AL its forms and
modes Of operating as Indicated in describing It
either - simple hand instrument, OF propelled
by machinery. Aud In connection with thee Epeci-
fic claims, AID based upon them. also claim all
other means and appliances substantially the sams
those herein claimed or Intended TO be claimed
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
A. above this Invention has already spread itself
over canadA eighteen States of the American Union
and Into Great britain, and IS used In than
three hundred Newspaper Offices it, immense value
to banking and similar Institutions viii be shown In
a circular which viii make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information, DEEDS of
Right" 'Disp Atc AIachines will receive due at
tention, when addressed either to
Rev Robert, Dick, E fs9t Se;. q g y = or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. Haines, london, ENGLAND.
~ To ..LEX," who in the Montreal Ga,ette Of LIST
February, 1880, pronounees the !idea7 Of keeping
accounts current sin Tyre" gross Absurdity,"
thanks are hereby rendered and the assurance given,
that this gross absurdty Is all that MIR. Dick has
patented in the domain OF keeping accounts. His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
srOsa absurdity Is not piratcaIy snIuEgled in any
manner: neither bodily nor partialIyi neither d.
reetly or Indirectly neither explicitly nor symbOli-
ealy; this ground his claims cover, aud nothing
more; the Absolute monopoly Of this absurdity and
nothing else, s all he asks his clas nationally
read. attest.~7Ea sept7