Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-02-01
8, MISCELLANEOUS. +
THE FLOATING BALL.
OR
KNUCKLE WASHING MACHINE

HAS received the highest premiums at the Fairs
IL of the Virginia Mechanics Institute, Virginia
State Agricultural Society Maryland Institute and
all other Fairs where It has been exhibited
Christmas being near at hand, when persons hire
their servants for another year, is the time to
SAGE the hire of Serodnt by purchasing one of these
Machines.
THE BEST INVENTION EVER OFFERED TO
THE PUBLIC.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS MAcHINE-1. Clothes are
washed far cleaner far more thoroughly than by hand,
even when pounding is added. At one and the same
instant they subjected to the hreefold operation
Of Pounding, Rubbing and Squeezing; those parts
which the most soiled receiving the most of it,
whilst owing to the limited resistance offered by the
floating balls, injury is sustained from the opera
ton, even by the finest textures. g. The time con-
sumed but VERY SHALL FRACTION of that required
in washing by hand. g. The wear and tear of clothes
is far less, even when no pounding is added to the
rubbing by hand. Persons have done hundreds OF
washings with the machine, without ever knowing
button to be torn off or broken. In numberless in
stances the experiment has been tried of putting in
bank notes. together with shirts, considerably soiled
After being washed the time requisite for making the
shirts perfectly clean, the notes have presented no
perceptbie change that of being made cean and
the ink being little faded. 4. The consumption OF
soap is much less. 5. Less fuel is consumed than in
washing by hand, when the latter is done with hot
water and the clothes are boiled afterwards 6. All
for boiling is superseded excepting only
such clothes as are the very oulest state when Ia
ken to wash. T. All injury to the hands is avoided;
no bleeding or sore fingers; none of the bstering,
and chapping, and callous. such as washerwomens
hands so often exhibit The hands are never i'm
mersed in the water never wet except to the extent
necessary in putting the clothes into the sash and
king them out, and in wringing them 8. The ma
chine is easy to work. so very easy, that the whole la
Dor of working it. Tin doing the weeks wash of a.
large family among the ghtest tasks involved In
the daily routine of household duties. Very small
children take part in it any hafgrown girl of or
binary strength, however little used TO labor, dc
the whole without fatigue and with great benefit from
the exercse this being of the best kind for strength
ening the arms, chest and loins. g. The process OF
washing with it is most simple, consisting it does
in the two acts of laying the clothes in the sash, and
in working this up and down, by giving the like mo-
ton to the lever which the sash is attached to. Any
person of the most ordinary intelligence will acquire
sufficient knowledge of it by witnessing it for ten
minutes; and, without having it at all, no
such person fail to become conyersant with it, in
halt hours practice, observing the printed drec
tons. For merely washing clothes clean, and ena-
bling any one to do wash in time short, that II
can scarcely be credited by those who have not wit
messed it. all needfu directions would be comprised
in few lines. But for doing awash in the most per
feet manner possible, and in the brietest possible
number of particulars must be attended to, which
although they could be all learned in few minutes |
oy SEEING cannot be described so briefly 10. The |
nachine cannot get out OF order In any way except
De actually broken and it cannot be broken in using
t. If broken, the damage when the greatest possible
IAN be repaired by any common carpenter in hour
H. Its durability has no other limit but that of the
,oy er of wood to resist decay.
would beg leave to refer to the following gentle
men who have tried the above machine: Rev. w. /
II. L.. Gallaher, DR.. c. Alexander, J. /
smith, j. s. Wallace, Peter Hanger, ST., ID. d. Coy
ler John Coyner, jr, and John B. Taylor, at Waynes
zorro, where they are manufactured and always on
land. JAS. +. IRVINE.
Waynesboro', Dec IA, 1S5S.-6m
c5gS HENRY w. WooD, Agent at Stanton. 4,