Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-18
DICKS ACCOUNTANT AND
DISPATCH PATENT.

The MrsHt0'S CiaiGls acknowledged and protected
by The GorsrRHaeilis 81 C;IHadd, The Enitci Shtes
and Gredt Briiain: 10 all lsiopa 1t may concern.
lNTIIAT CLAIM AS sly INVENTION Is, TIE
w cuntrirnnce Of keeping accounts current, OF
whatever kind, description or variety, In printed
Orn, by keeping the statements Of the several nc
counts standing printers type. their equivalents
the type being arranged Ia form as To admit nI
being readily Anh quickly reausted In amy PartIc-
lar part, where an account may have undergone n
Change, by the lapse Of time the current Of busi-
meas transactions; that when readiusteI In ali
such parts M to any given date, an Impression then
taken from the type shall exhibit In printed form
the true state Of all the accounts 80 kept accurately
representing all the balances or conclusions, In
COTdRnce with the end ends contemplated In keep
ing the recOrd rendering 1t, In commercial busness
balance sheet OF the most compact and perfect
character, the details Of management being snbstAn
TALLY recit In specification, wherein it Is shown
that tho fact facts to be recorded may he repre-
sente'l by figures, symbols dates, or numbers used
either separately or In combination, or by whatever
ese Will Indicate the TACT or facts dssired: and
IuTtheTtnOTe- based this primary Invention. also
claim the device or cOntriVancs Of rendering or
transmitting accounts Ia partial full statements
when the statement or statements 30 sent thus.
or substantially thus kept In type by the cOntri.
TanCes Of my invention be the medium Of transmits
sion Wlat il mays but the particular mode Of rom
deriuR accounts by the use Of tho Dispatch Machine
constituted OF Apron Movement Reel, and Cutter
stamp, claim IN the brOaest and fullest sense; and
also the machine ITSELF embracing all its forms and
moes, OF operating, as indicated In describing It,
either as simple hand instrument, Dr rs propelled
by machinery. Aud In connection with theSe snecI-
uc claims, anu based upon them, also claim all
other means aud appliances substantially the same
a. thEe herein claImed or intended to be claimed.
Wilt these claims fully acknowledged and protected
as above this invention has already spread Itself
over CAntaN eighteen States OF the American Union
aud Into Great Britain. and Is used in more than
three hundred Newspaper 0Hices ItsImmense value
to banking and similar Institutions will DO shown In
a circular which will make Its appearance soon.
Meanwhile applications fnr Information, .Der,ls Of
Right or "DispIteh Machines will receive due at
tentiOn, when addressed either to
Rev. Robert, Dick, Fs9y i,. Y y Z, or or
tOhis Agent and Attorney,
John j. TIalnes, london, ENGLAND.
~ To LEM who in the Montreal Gasstse LIST
February, lS6O, pronounces the .sldea" Of keeping
accounts current "in type sErOsS Nbsurdity,"
thanks are hereby rendered and the assurance given
that this gross a6surJiity ts all that AR Dick has
patented in The domain Of keeping accounts HIS
claims hinder NO operation therein Into which this
srOss absuriity Is not plraticaIy Struggled In any
manner: neither bodily nor partially; neither di.
reetly or Indirectly; neither explicitly nor synboli-
eally; this Ercund his claims cover, and nothing
Hnre; the absolute monopoly of this Ab4urlity aud
nothing else, Is all he asks Gshls elanis nationally
rea'' a'test,-aR E4Pt7