Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-01
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE FLOATING BALL,
KNVCKLE WASHING MACHINE,


HAS received the highest premiums at the Falfs
h of the Virginia Mechanics Institute, virginia
State Agricultural Society, Maryland Institute, ana
all other Fairs where II has been exhibited =,
Christmas being near at hand, when persons hlre
their servants for another year, now is the time to
saes The hire of SercaRt, by purchasing one OF these
Machines. 1870 -,,r> no
THE PUBLIC.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS MAcuRs.-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 threshold operation
of Poundigag, Rubbing and Squeezing; those parts
which are the most soied receiving the most Of 1T
whilst owing to the limited resistance offered by the
floating balls no injury is sustained from the opera
tion even by the finest textures. 2. The time con,
sumed is but VERY SHALL FRACTION OF that required
in washing by hand 3. The wear and tear OF CLONES
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 showing
button to be torn of or broken. In numoeriess u
stances the experiment has been tired OF putting ~
bank notes. together with Shirts considerably solsu.
After being washed the time requisite Tor tue
shirts perfectly clean, the notes have presented no
perceptible change save that OF being maue cea anu
The ink being a little faded. 4. The consumption OF
SOAP is much less 5. Less fuel is consumed than IN
washing by hand, when the lstterls done Win MOI
water aud the clothes are boiled afterwards. o. Az
necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only
such clothes as are in the very fouest state when Ia
ken to wash z. All injury to the hands is avoided
no bleeding or sore fingers; none OF the ohsterlng
and chapping, and callous, such as washerwomens
hands so often exhibit. The hands are never I'M
mersed in the water, wet except to the extent
necessary in putting the clothes into the sash and Ia
king them out, and in wripging them. 5. The ma
chine is easy to work. very easy that the whole Ia
Dor of working it, Tin doing the weeks wash OF .
large family is among the ghtest 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 90
the whole without fatigue, and with great benefit from
the exerclse this being of the best kind Tor strength
ening the arms, chest and lons. 3. The process OF
washing with il is most simple consisting as IL does
in the two acts oflaying 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 II Tor ten
minutes; and, without ever having seen It at all no
such person eau fail to become eonyersant with IT, In
half an hours practice observing the printed direc-
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 washi in the most per
feet manner possible and in the briefest 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 exceptit
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 carpenter In one hour
H. Its durability has 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. y
Richardson H. l.. Gallaher, DR.. c. Alexander, j. I
ner, John Coyner, jr and John B. Taylor at Waynes
boro', where they are manufactured and always on
hand. JAS. E. IRVINE.
waynesboro', Dec IA, ls5s.-6m