Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-05-17
THE FLOATING BALL,
OR
KNUCKLE WASHING MACHINE.

AS received the hlShest premiums at the FAIRS
III of the Virginia Mechanics Institute, Virgins
State Agricultural Society, Maryland Institute, and
all other Fairs where it has been exhibited.
Christmas being near at hand, when persons hire
their servants for another year, now is the time tc
SAGE tile hire of Ser0ant, 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 threefold operation
of Pounding, Rubbing and Squeezing; those parts
which are the most soiled 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 Q. 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
waship1s 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 soed
After being washed the time requisite for making the
shirts perfectly clean, the notes have presented no
percepible change that of being made Clean and
the ink being little faded. A. The consumption OF
soap is much less. s. Less fuel is consumed than in
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necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only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 are the very fouest state when
ken to wash T. All injury to the hands is avoided ;
no bleeding or sore fingers; none of the blistering
and chapping and callous, such as washerwomen's
hands so often exhibit. me hands are never I'M
mersed in the water never wet except to the extent
necessary r putting the clothes into the sash and Ia
king them out, and in wringng 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 lightest tasks involved 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 exercise this being of the best kind for strength.
eniup the arms chest and loins. 8. The process OF
washing with it is most simple, consisting it does
in the two acts oflayng 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 it at all,
such person can fail to become conversan with it, in
half an hours practice observing the printed drec
TONS For merely washing clothes clean, and ena-
bling 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 brieest time possible
n 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, except
be actually broken and it cannot be broken In using
it. If broken the damage when the greatest possible
can be repaired by any common carpenterln one hour
il 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. i.
Richardson, Fl. l.. Gallaher DR.. G. Alexander, j. Y.
Smith, j. s. Wallace, Peter Hanger, Sr, ID: d. Coy
ner, John Coyner, jr, and John Taylor at Waynes-
boro'. where they are manufactured and always on
hand. - ~ JAS. Il. Inv lNE.
Waynesboro', Dec IA, 185s.G6m