Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE FLOATING BALL,
q u OR
KNUCELE WASHING MACHINE.

TTAS received the highest premiums at the Fairs
ii Of the Virginia Mechanics Institutes Virginia
State Agricultural Society, Maryland Institute, and
all other Fairs where Il has been exhibited.
Christmas being near al hand, when persons hire
their servants for another year, now is the time tc
saBe tic hire Of Sera7t by purchasing one Of these
| Machines. 49,, , No.
! THE REST. INVENTION EVER OFFERED TO
THE PUBLIC.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS MAcmNE.-l. Clothes are
washed far cleaner far more thoroughly than hand
even when pounding is added. AZ one ana tne same
instant they are subjected to the three-tod operation
| of Poandi1g, Ru56sng and Squeezing; those parts
which are the most soiled receiving the most OF IL
whilst owing to the limited resistance offered Wy the
floating balls, no injury is sustained from Tue opera
ton, even by the finest textures. q Inc Time Gun,
sumed 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 tne
rubbing by hand. Persons have done hundreds OF
Washings with the machine, without ever knowing
button to be torn Oft or broken In numberless IN
stances the experiment has been tried of putting in
bank notes. together with shirts, considerably soned
After being washed the time requisite for making the
shirts perfectly clean the notes have presented no
perceptbe change save that being made clean, and
the ink being little faded T. Inc consaP i y,
washing BY hand, when the latteris done with hot
water and the clothes are boiled afterwards. g. All
necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only
such clothes as in the very ioulest state wnen Ia
III, (.A
no bleeding or sore fingers; none OF the blistering
and chapping, and cailous, such as washerwomen's
hands so often exhibit The hands arc never i'm
mersed in the water never wet, except 10 the extent
necessary in putting the clothes into the sasn ana Ia
king them out and in wringing them. 8. the ma
chine is easy to work, so very easy tht the Wnole Ia
Dor of working it, lin doing the week WASH OF
large family, is among the lightest tasks involved In
the daily routine Of household duties Very small
children can take part in it any half grown girl OF or
binary strength, however little used to labor can DO
the whole without fatigue and with great benent from
the EXERCISE this being OF the best KIND Tor
eninQ the arms, chest and oins. o. The process OF
washing with il is most simple, consisting as il does
in the two acts ofaying the clothes in the sash, and
in working this up and down, BY giving the IKE mo-
ton TO the lever which the sash is attached 70. Any
person of the most ordinary intelligence VIII 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 conyersant with IT. IN
half an hours practice observing the printed direc-
tons 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
nessedjt ali needfrl directions would be comprised
in few lines But for doing wash in the most per
feet manner possible and in the bretest time possible
a number of particulars must be attended 10, when,
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 exceptt
he actually broken and Il cannot be broken in using
It, Ifbroken the damage. when the greatest possible
can be repaired by any common carpenterin one hour
H. It's durability has no other limit but that OF the
power Of wood to resist decay.
would beg leave to refer to the following gentle
rnep who have tried the above machine: Rev. W. I.
Richardson II. u. Gallaher Dr.. c. Alexander, j ~.
smith, j. s. Wallace Peter Hanger, Sr., D. D. Coy
ner, John Conner jr and John B. Taylor, at Waynes-
boro where they are manufactured and arrays on
hand. lac Jas. H. ihf me