Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-29
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DTsPATCH pATENT

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TIE 4asGsors elsfls az GekHo'ei@gcI and Prctscte6
By ths GovSTHnetts Of CsMpdla Tie Gated .SsateE.
aBd Great ByftqiA; to all 1pt0la IL nay e0Reera.
NyU4T CLAIM AS Ny INVENTION IS, THE
/ w eontrivRneo u keeping accounts current, Of
Whatever kind description OF variety, in printed
Orm, BY keeping the statements Of the several &c
counts St4ndiukt printer type or their equiyalsnts
the type being 70 arrnEed In Eorr1 as to admit OF
being readily and quickly readiuBted In any partlcu
lar part, where an Hccount may have undergone
change by the lapse Of time the current Of bus.
meas tFNnRactionS; that, when TGadiusted In all
gHch parts up to any given date impression then
taken frUm the type Shall exhbt, in printed FORM
the true state Of all the accounts 50 kept accurately
representing all the balances conclusions, in
eordanee with the end ends contemplated In keep
Ing the record. rendering II. in commercial business
balance sslitrt Of the most compact and perfect
character. t~ "details Of management being snLstnu
TALLY Tritsd in specification, wherein II is shown
that the " or tacts to be recorded may be repre-
scented by figures, symbols, dates or numbers, used
either separately or in combination, by whatever
else will indicate ihe fact or facts as dusiEed and
furthermore, based this primary invention, also
claim the device e0utrivanea Of rendering
transmitting accounts IN partial or full statements,
when the statement or statements sent arc thus,
or Substantially thns, kept In type by the eontri
vAnees Of my inVeniiou5 be the medium Of tFansmis-
sion what IL nRNi bat tho particular mode OF rem
derins accounts by the use Of the Dispatc Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement Reel, and Cutter
stamp claim in the broadeSt and fullest sense; and
also the machine ITSELF embracing all its forms and
modes, Of operating, indicated in describing II,
either ~ a simple hand Instrument, propelled
by machinery. And in connection with thess speri-
&c claims, a1l based upon them / also claiI1 all
other means and appliances substantially the same
thusS herein claimed intended to be claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
~ above this invention has already spread itself
Canada, eighteen States Of the American Union,
aud into Great Britain, and Is used In than
three hundred SEWspnPerOihces. Its immense value
to hanking ami similar Institutions will Ire AloWn in
. circular which Will make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information, -DeedS OF
Right" dispatch MAsliinesH will receive due
tentiOn, when addressed either TO
Rev. Robert, Dick, I FSy4 RI. e H. ~ or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John J. HaInes, Loadol, ENGLAND.
~ To "LEX,' who In the Montreal GasCtte of LIST
February, 1850, prOnOunceS thu aideG- Of keeping
accounts current sin type ''gross absurdtty,'
thanks are hereby teneFed, and the given,
that this gross Rbsurity Is all that Mr.. Dick has
patented In the domain Of keeping accounts His
claims hinder operation therein into which this
gross absurdity Is not practically struggled in any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither d.
rectly or Indirectly; neither explicitly symbol.
cally; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this abSurdity aud
nothing else Is all he asks his claims, nationally
read, attest.-EA sepH