Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-06-07
THE FLOATING BALL,
OR
kNUCKIE WASHING MACHINE.

VIAS received the highest premiums at the Fairs
Ill 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
SAGE Tile hire oG Servant, by purchasing one OF these
THE BEST INVENTION EVER OFFERED TO
THE PUBLIC.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS MAcHINE.-1. Clothes are
washed far cleaner far thoroughly than by hand
even when pounding Is added. AT one and the same
instant they are subjected to the threeod 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. 2. The time con-
sumed Is but VERY SMALL FRACTION of that required
in washing by hand. 3. 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
washin9s 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
perceptible change that of being made cean and
the ink being little faded. 4. The consumption OF
soap is much less. g. 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necessity for boiling is superseded, excepting only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 ia
ken TO wash T. All injury to the hands is avoided ;
no bleeding or sore ingersj none OF the blistering,
and chappipg, and callous, such as washerwomen' 8
hands so often exhibit The hands are i'm
mersed in the water, never wet, except to the extent
In putting the clothes into the sash and Ia
king them out, and in wringng them. s. The ma
chine IA easy 20 work. very easy that the whole Ia
bor of working il. lin doing the weeks wash of q
large family is among the ghtcst tasks involved in
The daily routine Of household duties. Very small
children cun take part IN IL any grown girl of
binary strength, however little used to labor can do
the whole without fatigue aud with great benefit from
The sxercsc this being of tho beat kind for strength
eniup the arms, chest aud lona. o. The process OF
washing with II In most simple. consisting as II does
in the two acts of laying tho cloca IN the sash, and
in working this up and down, by giving the like mo-
tion to tbs lever winch the hnHh In attached to- Amy
person Of the most ordinary intelligence will acquire
sufficient knowledge Of II by witnessing It for ten
minutes and without ever having aeon u at all no
such person fail 10 become convcrnant with it, in
hall nm hours practice observing tho printed direc
tions For merely washing ClothcH clean, and ena-
HING nny one 10 DO wash In time short, that 1t
can scarcely be credited by thopc who have not wit.
messed IT, al nccdful directions would 10 comprised
In n few lines Hut for doing wash IN The most per-
feet possible and In Tho briccrt time possible
"a number of particulars must bc attended TO- which,
although they could DO oil learned In few minutes
by seeing, cannot bo described no briefly. 10. The
machine cannot got out Of order In any way, except
be actually broken and II cannot be broken IN using
il. II broken, tho damage. when thcRrcnest possible
be repaired by any common carpenter IN one hour
IL. Its durability hus other limit but That OF the
power Of wood to resist decay
would beg leave 10 refer to the following gentle
men who have tried the above machine: Rev w l.
Richardson, II. l.. Gallahcr DIR. @. Alexander, Y.
Smith, J. s. Wallace, Peter Hanger, Sr, ID, ID. Coy
ner John Coyner, jr and John Is Taylor, at Waynes-
boro', where they are manufactured and always on
hand. JAS. Il. IRVINE.
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