Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-05-31
THE FLOATING BALL
OR
KNUCKLE WASHING MACHINE.

TTAS received the highest premiums at the Fairs
III of the Virginia Mechanics Institute, Virginia
State Agricultural Society, Maryland institute and
Christmas being near at hand, when persons hire
their servants for another year, is the time to
SAGE tie hire oa Ssrcan, by purchasing one of these
Machines. -
THE BEST 1Nv FIT Pf1R ETER OFFERED TO
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 hree-fold operation
of Poundinq, Rubbing and Squeesiag those parts
which are the most soied 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
washngs with the machine, without ever knowing
hutton to be torn Oft or broken. In numberess 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
percepble change save that of being made clean and
the ink being little faded. 4; Inc consumption OF
soan is 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 s. All
necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only
such clothes as in the very ouest state when Ia
ken to wash. T. All injury to the hands is avoided
mo bleeding or sore fingers; none of the blistering,
and cbappipp. and callous, such as washerwomen's
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 Ia
king them out and in wringing them. s. The ma
chine 10 easy to work. very easy, that the whole Ia
Dor of working it, lin doing the weeks wash of q
large family is among the lightest tasks involved in
The daily routine of household duties. Very small
children can take part in 1T any halfgrown girl OF
binary strength however little used to labor, do
the whole without latigue and with great benefit from
eninp the arms chest and loins. 8. The process OF
washing with it is most simple consisting it does
in the two laying the clothes in the sash, and
in working this up and down, by giving the like mo-
ton 10 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,
such person can fail to become conversant with it, in
halt an hours practice, observing the printed drec-
tons. For merely washing clothes clean, and ena-
hing any one TO do wash in time so short that 1t
can scarcely be credited by those who have not wit
messed it, all needful 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, winch,
although they could be all learned in few minutes
Inv seeing, cannot be described so briefly. 10. The
machine cannot get out of order IN any way exceptit
he actually broken and it cannot be broken in using
it. If broken, the damage, when thegreatest possible,
can be repaired by any common carpenterln one hour
H. Its durability has no other limit put that OF the
pow er of wood to resist decay.
I would beg leave to refer to the following gentle
men who have tried the above machine Rev. W 1.
Richardson, IL. l.. Gallaher, DR.. U. Alexander, >.
Smith, J. S. Wallace Peter Hanger, Sr, u u. Coy
ner, John Coyner, jr and John Taylor, at Waynes-
boro'. where they are manufactured and always on
hand JAS. E. IRVINE.
Waynesboro', Dec IA, 185S.-6m