Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE FLOATING BALL.
KNUCKLE WASHING MACHINE.

HAS received the highest premiums at the Fairs
Ii of the Virginia Mechanics 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, is the time 10
SAGE tie hire Of Servant, by purchasing one of these
Machines. .,5r-
THE BEST INVENTION EVER OFFERED TO
l. THE PUBLIC.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS MACHINE. Clothes are
washed far cleaner far thoroughly than by hand,
even when pounding is added. At one and the same
instant they subjected to the threefold operation
OF Founding, Rubbing and Squeezing; those parts
which are the most soled 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 rs 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
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 soied
After being washed the time requisite for making the
shirts perfectly clean the notes have presented no
perceptible change save 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 latteri is done with hot
water, and the clothes are boiled afterwards. g. All
necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only
such clothes as the very fouest state when Ia
ken to wash Z. All injury to the hands is avoided;
no bleeding fngersj none OF the blistering,
and chapping 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 wrnging them. 8. The ma
chine is easy to work. so very easy that the whole a
Dor of working it, lin doing the weeks wash of q
large family is among the lgbtest tasks involved in
the daily routine of household duties. Very small
children take part in it any halgrown girl Of or
binary strength however little used to labor, can do
the whole without fatigue, and with great benefit from
the exerclse this being of the best kind for strength.
ening the arms, chest and loins 8. The process OF
washing with it is most simple consisting as 1t 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 it for ten
minutes; and, without ever having seen it at ALL no
such person fail to become conversant with it, in
halt an hours practice observing the printed direc
TONS For merely washing clothes clean, ond ena-
bling any to do wash In time so short, that 1t
can scarcely be credited by those who have not wit
messed it, all needfu directions would be comprised
in few lines. But for doing wash in the most per-
feet manner possible and in the brefest time possible
a 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 end it cannot be broken in using
it, If broken, the damage when thegreatest possible
be repaired by any common carpenter IN 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
men who have tried the above machine: Rev. w. I
Richardson II. L. Galaher, DR.. G. Alexander, j. Y.
Smith, j. S. Wallace, Peter Hanger, Sr., D. d. Coy
ner, John Coyner jr and John B. Taylor, at Waynes
hand. JAS. E. IRVINE.
Waynesboro', Dec IA, 1s5S.-6m
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