Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-23
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT

Tia IHrentoTs Claims acknowledged and protected
by The Governments 81 Canada, Tie United States,
aud Great BritIi :: al iOhoni IL may concern.
JXIHAT ICLAIAI AS MY INVENTION IS, THE
w contrivance of keeping accounts current OF
whatever kind, description or variety, III printed
OrlA, by keeping TIE statements of the several ac-
in printers type or their equivalents,
the typo being So arranged in fOrm rs to admit OF
hen readily and quickly readiusted i'm any particu-
lar part, where an account may have undergone u
change by the lapse of time the current of bust
ness tTanSaCtiOns so that, when readjusted in all
such parts up any given date. an impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit, in printed form,
the true state of all the accounts so kept accurately
representing all the balances or conclusions IN ac-
corance with the end ends contemplated in keep
ing the record, rendering 1t, in commercial business
balance sheet of the most compact and perfect
character. the details of management being suDstal-
TALLY rcCted in specification, wherein II II SHOWN,
that the fact facts to ba recorded, may pe repre-
scented by figures symbols, dates, or numbers, used
either separately or in combinations or by whatever
else will indicate the fact or facts rs desired: anu
Furthermore, based ON this primary invention, also
claim the device Continuance OF rendering or
transmitting accounts in partial or full statements,
when the statement statements sent are thus,
substantially thus, kept in type by the contri-
Vamces Of my invention, he tho Medium OF transmits
sion what It nay hut the particular mode "t reIi-
derng accounts by the use of the Dispatch Machine
constituted OF Apron, Movement. Reel "md Gutter
stamp claim III the broadcast and fullest sense; and
also tho machine ITSELF embracing all its FORMS ana
modcS Of operating, aS Indicated i'll describing II.
either simple hand instrument or as propelled
by machinery. And in connection with these sIeci-
fc claims and based upon them. also claim MI
other and appliances substantially the same
AZ those herein claimed or intended to be claimed.
With these claims fully acknowledged and protected
rs above, this invention has already spread ftselt
over Canada eighteen States of the American Union,
and into Great Britain and is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper Offices. ltsimmenEc value
TO banking and similar institutions will be shown in
"a circular which will make its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications for infornation Deeds OF
Right" dispatch Machines" will receive due at
tontion, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, R fS,s H@ie n T. r. T. or or
to his Agent and Attorney,
John j. IIaines. London, ENGLAND.
Sw- To .LEX,'' who in the Montreal Gazette of LIST
February. 1860, pronounces tho 'iiea" Of keeping
accounts current Tin type ..gross absurdity,"
thanks are hereby tcndere and the assurance given,
that this gross ab4nrlty is all that Mr.. Dick has
patented in tho domain of keeping accounts. His
claims hinder no operation therein into which this
gross absurdity is not practically struggled in any
manner: neither bodily ner partially; neither d.
rectly Indirectly; neither explicitly nor symbol
cally; this ground his claims cover, and nothing
more: the absolute monopoly of this absurdity and
nothing else, is all he asks his claims, nationally
rend attest.~tSa septT