Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-04-19
THE FLOATING BALL,
OR
KNUCKLE WASHING MACHINE,

TTAS received the highest premiums at the Fairs
I'll of the Virginia Mechanics Institute, Virgins
State Agricultural Society, Maryland Institute, and
all other Fairs where 1t has been exhibited.
Christmas being near at hand, when persons hire
their servants for another year, now is the time to
saue tile hire of SsrOaSt, 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 ana the same
of Poundi,ig, Rubbing and Squeezing; those parts
which are the most soed receiving the most of it;
whilst owing to the limited resistance offered by the
floating balls no injury Is sustained from the opera
ton. even by the finest textures 2. The time con-
sumed is but VERY SMALL FRACTION of that required
in washing by hand 8. 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 numberess in
stances the experiment has been tried of putting in
bank notes. together with shirts, considerably soed
After being washed the time requisite for making the
shirts perfectly clean, the notes have presented no
perceptible change that of being made Clean and
the ink being little faded. a. The consumption of
soap is much less g. Less fuel is consumed than in
washing by hand when the latteris done with hot
water and the clothes are boiled afterwards. 6. All
necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only
such clothes as are in the very foulest state when ia
ken to wash. T. All injury to the hands is avoided i;
no bleeding or sore fingers; none of the blistering,
and chapping, and caous, such as washerwomen s
hands so often exhibit The hands are never i'm.
mersed in the to the
king them out, and in wringing them. s. The ma
chine is easy to work. very easy, that tine whole Ia
Dor of working it. lin doing the weeks wash of a
large family is among the lightest tasks involved in
the daily routine of household duties Very small
children can take part in 1T any hagrown girl of or
binary strength however little used to labor can do
the whole without fatigue, and with great benefit from
the exercises this being of the best kind for strength
ening the arms, chest and lons. 8. The process OF
washing with it is most simple, consisting it does
in the two acts 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 ever having seen 1t at all, no
such person fail to become conversant with it, in
halt hours practice, observing the printed direc-
tons. For merely washing clothes clean, and ena-
hing any one to do wash in time short, that 1t
can Scarcely be credited by those who have not wit
messed it, all needfu directions would be comprised
in few lines. But for doing wash in the most per:
feet manner possible and in the breiest time possible
number of particulars must be attended to, which,
although they could be all learned in few minutes
by seeing, cannot be described so briefly. 10. The
machine cannot get out of order in any way exceptit
be actually broken and it cannot be broken in using
it, If broken, the damage when thegreatest possible,
can be repaired by any common carpentern one hour
H. Its durability has other limit but that OF the
power of wood to resist decay.
would beg leave to refer to the following gentle
men who have tried the above machine: Rev. w. T.
Richardson, II. l.. Gaaher, DR.. c. Alexander, .sY.
Smith, j. S. Wallace, Peter Hanger, ST., d, D. Coy
ner, John Coyner, r., and John Taylor, at Waynes-
boro, where they are Manufactured ana Always on
hand. JAo' l.. Irvine.
Waynesboro' Dec IA 1S58.-6m