Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-03
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.


me Inreator's Claims ar Acknowledged and PyDteeed
blythe GoreTnmsats Of Ctnada, ne United Slater,
and Great BritGi all tVhOBl Il may concern.
VTTHAT CLAIM AS MY INVENTION Is, THE
w coutTiTanes Of keeping accounts current OF
whatever kind, description or variety In priRted
oTn, By keeping the statements of the several &c
counts sandingin printers type. or their equivalents
the type being 80 arranged In form as TO admit OF
being readily and quickly readlusted In any parteu-
lar part, where account may have undergone
change by the lapse Of time or the current OF bust
ness transactions; 60 that when readjusted in all
taken from the type shall exhibit in printed form,
the true state 0 all the accounts 80 kept accurately
representing all the balances or conclusions IN ac-
coranee With the end or ends contemplated in keep
ing the record, rendering It, In commercial business
a balance sheet Of the most compact and perfect
character the details OF management being substan-
TALLY - rrcted in specification wherein 1t t shown,
that tho fart facts to be recorded, may be repre-
scented by figures, symbols, dates or numbers, used
either separately or In combination or by WhateNeI
else will indicate the fact facts as desired; And
Furthermore, based on this primary invention also
claim the device or eontEiyanee Of rendering Of
transmitting &C cunts IN partial or full stAtementA
when the statement OF statements 50 sent are thus
or substantially thus, kept In type, by the contr-
vances Of my Invention, be the medium Of transmits
sion what It may; but the particular mode OF rem
derng accounts by the use OF the Dispatch Machine
constituted Of Apron Movement, Reel, and Cutter
stamp claim in the hroadest and fullest sense; and
also the machine ITSELF embracing all its forms and
modeE Of operating, as indicated in describing II,
either simple hand instrument, or a. propelled
nc claims and based upon them, also claim all
other means and appliances substantially the same
as those herein claimed or intended to DO claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
~ above, this invention has already spread Itself
over Canada eighteen States Of the American Union
and into Great Britain. and Is used Ia more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. Itstmmense value
To banking and similar institutions will be shown In
a circular which will make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for Information, Deeds Of
RIGHT" or GDispttch Machines" Will receive due at
tention, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, s Fs7t He " e, or or
tohls Agent and Attorney,
John j. IRines, LOadoH, ENGLAND.
E1-To Glen, - who In the Montreal Cusstte of LIST
February, 1860 pron0unces the ''Idea" Of keeping
accounts eurTent '.ln type Hgross AbsuTdity,"
thanks hereby rendered, and the assurance gwen
that this gross a6surdity Is all that Mr.. Dick has
patented in the domain Of keeping accounts. His
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross ab-urdity Is not practically struggled in my
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither d.
recty or Indirectly; neither explicitly nor symbols
eally; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
more; the absolute monopoly Of this absurdity and
nothing else is all he asks rs his claims, nationally
road ntte-t- ga septT