Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-07-26
THE FLOATING BALL,
ENUCKLE WASHING MACHINE,

kNUCKLE WASHING MACHINE,
TTAS received the highest premiums at the Fairs
Of the Virginia Mechanics Institute, Virginia
State Agricultural Society, Maryland Institute, and
nil other Fairs where II has been exhibited
Christmas being near AT hand, when persons hire
their servants for another year, now is the time TO
sage tie hire ou Servant, By purchasing one of these
THE BEST INVENTION EVER OFFERED TO
THE PUBLIC.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS MAcHINE.-1. Clothes are
washed far cleaner far more thoroughly than by hand
instant they are subjected to the threefod operation
of Pouudin1 Rubbing and Sgueezing; those parts
which are the most solled receiving the most of it;
whilst owing to the limited resistance offered by the
floating balls, no INJURY Is sustained rom the opera
ton, even by the finest textures. g. The time con-
summed Is but VERY SMALL 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
rubbinp by hand. Persons have done hundreds of
wasbin9s with the machine, without ever knowing
hinton TO be torn off 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 tecty clean, the notes have presented no
percepibe change save that of being made Clean and
the ink beng little faded. 4. The Consumption OF
soap much less 5. Less fuel Is consumed than in
washing by hand, when the latteris done with hot
water and the clothes are boiled afterwards 6. All
such clothes in the very foues state when Ia
ken to wash 7. All injury to the hands is avoided;
no bleeding or sore fingers none OF the bliserng,
and chappipg, and callous, such us washerwomen's
hands so often exhibit. The hands are never i'm,
mersed in the water, wet except to the extent
necessary in putting the clothes into the sash and Ia
king them out, and in wringng them. 8. The ma
chime easy TO work. very easy, that the whole la
Dor of working 1t, Tin doing the weeks wash of a
large family, is among the ghtest tasks invoy ed in
the daily routine of household duties. Very small
children can take part in it any halfgrown girl of
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
enng the arms, chest and loins. 8. The process OF
washing with it is most simple, consisting as it does
in the two acts ofaying 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 1t for ten
mInutes and without ever having seen 1t at all, no
such person can fail to become conversant with it, in
half an nour practice observing the printed direc-
tions, For merely washing clothes clean, and ena-
bling any one to do wash in time so short, that
can scarcely be credited by those who have not wit
messed 1t, all needful directions would be comprised
in few lines. But for doing washlD the most per-
feet manner possible and in the brieest time possible
number of particulars mus; 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, except
be actually broken; and it cannot be broken In using
it. If broken, the damage when thegreates possible
can be repaired by any common carpenerin one hour.
H. Its durability has no 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. 7.
Richardson, Fl. L. Gallaher DR.. c. Alexander, j. Y.
Smith, j. s. Wallace, Peter Hanger, ST., d. d. Coy
ner, John Coyner, jr and John Taylor. at Waynes-
boro', where they are manufactured and always ON
hand. JAS. E. IRVINE.
Waynesboro', Dec a. ls5s.-ep