Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-02-22
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE FLOATING BALL.
OR
KNUCKLE WASHING MACHINE.

T1AS received the highest premiums at the Fairs
IL of the Virginia Mechanlcs' Institute, Virginia
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
SAGE the hire of Ssrcart, 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 are subjected to the threeold operation
of Pounding, Rubbing and Squeezing; those parts
which are the most soied receiving the most OF II;
whilst owing to the limited resistance offered by the
floating balls injury is sustained from the opera
tion even by the finest textures Q. The time con-
sumed is but SMALL FRACTION of that required
in washing by hand 8. The wear and tear OF clothes
is far less, when no pounding is added to the
rubbing by hand. Persons have done hundreds OF
wasbings 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 nave n no
the ink being little faded. f. 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 boiled afterwards. s. All
necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only
such clothes in the very foulest state when Ia
ken to wash 7. All injury to the hands is avoided;
no bleeding or sore fingers; none OF the clustering,
and chapping, and callous, such as washerwomen's
hands SO often exhibit. The hands are never i'm
nersed in the water wet except to the extent
necessary in putting the clothes into the sash and ia
king them out and in wringing them. s. The ma
chine is easy to work. very easy, that the whole Ia
Dor of working it, lin doing the weeks wash Of a
large family Is among the Iightest tasks involved in
the daily routine of household duties. Very small
children take part in it any 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
eniug the arms chest and loins. g. The process OF
washing with it is 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 it at all, NO
such person can fail to become conyersan with it. in
half hours practice. observing the printed drec
tions. 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 needu directions would be comprised
in few lines But for doing wash in the most per-
feet manner possible, and in the brieest 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, excepti
be actually broken and it cannot be broken in using
it. If broken the damage, when thegreatest possible,
can be repaired by any common carpenter one hour
H. Its durability has no other limit but that OF the
pow er 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. Gallaher DR.. G. Alexander, j. Y.
Smith j. s. Wallace, Peter Hanger, ST., D. d. Coy
boro', where they are manufactured and always on
hand. JAS. L. IRVINE.
Waynesboro Dec. IA, 1s58.-6m
az HENRY W. WooD, Agent at Staunton.