Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-16
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

TIE Lrr,,,,orS C7aials az acknowledged a,ad orsa.l
GyGte GousrnAeatI eJ CI:r,fI, the LIaiisi GSafss,
aud Greli BrttdtH: to uU Phoaa u Btuy concern.
WHAT CisAIA As MY INVENTION Is, THE
w c,snsriTAnee Of keeping: accounts current. OF
whatever kind description or variety, in printed
orm, by keeping tie statements Of the several nc
counts srGnlinEin PTinierS type or their eIuiyaents
the type being 50 arranged in form as to admit OF
being readily sud quickly readjustel in any plrticu-
lar part where Hn account may have undergone n
change by the LAPSE Of time the current of busi
ness Transactions; that. when reaJjustei in all
such parts up to any given date. impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit, in printed fUrn
tile true state Of all the accounts 50 kept accurately
representing all the balances euuclusions in ae
eordanee With the enI euds contemplated in keep
Ing the record; rendering it, in commercial business
batanee sheet Of the Iaost cOuIpaet and perfect
eanlcter, the "details Ut management being sHbsta
tally a. recital in specitiOn. wherein It Is shown,
Ght the tact OF taets u be recorded may be repre-
scented by hsnrcs, symbols dates OF numbers JIse1l
eIner SEtElIeIy "E IiI combination, by WIateVeF
ese Will Indicate tbs tact Or facts deSircd and
furthermore based thi= primary invention also
claim the device or contriVRhec OF rendering or
Transmitting accounts in partial or full statements
when the statement zfatements 50 sent are Thus
Substantially thus. kept in type. by the cOntrj-
vance. Of my invention be the medium Of transnis-
Sion what It may; but the particular mode Of rem
deEtRS acc0Guts by the U+e Of the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement, Reel, and Cutter
stamp, claim in tile bru1dest and tuesi sense: and
also the machine ITSELF embracing all its forms and
ulclcS Of operattng, indicated in describing IL
either as simple hSnd instrument, or propelled
by machinery. And in cInnestfon with these specf
Dc claims. aud based upon them, also calm All
Other and appliances substantially the same
AZ thuse herein eiAnct or intended to he Claimed
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
as above, this invention has already spread itself
over Canada eighteen 81 ties OF the American Union.
and Into Great Britain and 4 sS4 In more than
three hundred Newspaper OnSees- ItsimmeDse value
to banking and similar institutions will be shown in
circular vhiel, viii make Its appearance coon.
Meanwhile applications foT Information IIeeis %
Right, 'DiEp Itch Machines viii receive tIue
tention. when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, F,!i E9;, y; Il Z, or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. HaIneS, London, ENGLAND.
~ To -LEN,' who in the Montreal GasssEe Of Ist
February, 1890 prOnUuDces the idea OF keeping
accounts cIrreGt lin type" .grOss absuriity,' =
thanks are hereby rendered, and the assurance given
that this RrSrs Absuriity Is all that Mr. Dick has
patented in the domain of keeping Rceounts HIS
claims hinder no oPeEatiuu Therein into which this
gus Sbsnrity Is not plFattealy smngglei in any
manner: neither bodily partially; neither tIi-
rtly or Indirectly; neither explicitly nor sytaoIi-
I caNy: this ITOUnd his claims cover, and nothing
mare: the absolute monopoly of this absuriity as,l
nothing else e all he asks his claims nationally
read. attest.-6R EeutT