Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-07-05
THE FLOATING BALL,
OR
kNUCKIE WASHING MACHINE.

AS received the highest premiums at the FAIRS
IL 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 to
saye the lire oG Servant by purchasing one of these
Machines
THE BEST INVENTION EVER OFFERED TO
THE PUBLIC.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS MAoHINE.-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 the threefod operation
of Poandiag, 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, injury is sustained from the opera
tion even by the finest textures. 2. The time con-
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 the
rubbing by hand. Persons have done hundreds of
washings 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 have presented no
PercePbe change save sed 5na' 81 10
sosp 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. g. All
necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only
such clothes as are in the very foues state when to-
.
NO bleeding or sore 6ngers none of the blistering
and chappiug, 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 to-
king them out, and in wringing them. 8. The ma
chine is easy to work. so very easy that the whole To-
Dor of working it, Tin doing the weeks wash of a
large family is among the lghtest tasks involved in
the daily routine OF household duties. very small
children can take part in it any halfgrown girl of Or
binary strength however little used to labor, can do
the whole without fatigue. and with great benefit from
the this being of the best kind for strength.
eninp 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-
tion 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, no
such person can fail to become conyersant with it. in
half an hours practice observing the printed direc
tions For merely washing clothes clean, ana eDa-
bling any to do wash in time so snort 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 brefest time possible
number of particulars must be attended to, which,
although they could be all learned In lew minutes
by seeing, cannot be described so briefly 10. The
machine cannot get out of order In any way, except
he actually broken and il cannot be broken in using
h. If broken, the damage when thegreatest possible,
can be repaired by any common 10 one no9r
H. Its durability has no other limit but that OF the
wer of wood to resist decay.
would beg leave to refer to the following gentle
men who have tried the above machine: Rev. W. Il.
H. L. Galaher, DR.. q. Alexander Jay.
Smith, j. S. Wallace, Peter Hanger, ST., ID. d. Coy
ner John Coyner jr., and John B. Taylor at Waynes-
boro where they are manufacturing and always on
hand. JAo. l.. IRVINE
Waynesboro', Dec. IA, 1s5s.-6m
Al.