Connecticut western news., 1879-03-26
The Art Of Cleansing Fabrics
A BUSINESS THAT WILL PAY.

BIeacher---A Word About Bleaching ---Questions nnd Answers---Induce- ments and Terms to Agents.
 We bespeak for this article the careful perusal of every intelligent person into whose hands this paper may fall. It should carry great weight with house. keepers, and especially among
 MEN WHO ARE LOOKING FOR BUSINESS which will pay. To such will say here, the chance now offered is seldom equaled-never excelled. Read and be convinced:
 In bringing this article before the public, it be- comes necessary to take into brief consideration
 TEE ART OF CLEANSING FABRICS,
 which, although so common is yet so imperfectly understood. Having had lifelong experience in the laundry business in connection with rst-class hotels, public laundres, asylums, hospitals, etc., know whereof speak. The numerous devices of friction roers pounders, squeezers, dashers, agta tators, steam wash boilers, etc., have all done very well so far as it was possible for such principles and devices to do; but they have all failed in one or more of the three essential points, viz the sav- ing of labor the wear and tear of clothes in per- fectly extracting the dirt and discooration all of which accomplished by the ROBBINS FAMILY WASHER AND BLEACHER.
 WHAT Is IT REMOVES THE DIRT? You may ask all washerwomen and housekeepers and your answer from nine out of ten will be, "Penty of elbow grease, or in other woods, plenty of hard, laborious rubbing upon the washboard. cloth and then you have to rub it ip to make the dirt soluble; but does that remove it? No; to do
  to orce aoater through the fabric again and again. That is what dirt after having been softened | by the chemical action of the soap.
 The way in which this could be the most economi- | cally accomplished is what we have so long and patiently sought after, and at last principle has BLEAcHER, which embodies all the above-named points.
 jectonable features. It is harder work to operate | them than to use the common washboard. They constantly getting out of order and at the best times faster than the rubbing board, because the friction is hundred per cent; greater than can possibly be applied to that article. They take the I will not remove streaks from clothes. With the Washer and Bleacher, washing baking and house. | work contemporaneous operations-the fire do- ing the washing and baking, while the housewife 1 does her housework.
 Now, as to Steam Washboilers. All who have tried them will unite with us in saying they, do not give | entire satisfaction.
 WE WILL EXPLAIN WHY.
 As we stated above 'cater Jores is what removes water is required to hold in solution comparatively small amount of dirt. Steam washboilers cannot C. compsh the desired result for at least two reasons the first being: They do not contain enough water | to hold the dirt in soution-two or three gallons dirt from fabrics It is a powerful agent to as- sist ill cleansing because it expands the fabric and causes the discharge of dirt and impurities from the l cloth that cannot be forced out in any other way unless by the application o heat and orce o soater | combined.
 In order to remove dirt rom steamed clothes, they must be washed out in water at nearly boiling heat, for if you water at lower temperature it causes the fabric to contract which shuts in or, as our housewives say "sets the dirt, ," thus causing the clothes to turn yellow Another and very | tal thing to be mentioned here is the Totting ot clothes by steam cGshboiters and all such devices where only snsGH quantity o 1Vater can be used. Any person with grain of sense can readily set that that large quantity of soap dissolved in smal strong alkG After the clothes carefully packet in the steam washboiler, this powerful agent is at work and converted into steam; it is every mo ment becoming more powerful, till the clothes ar, removed. few such washings, and what is the re suit? Simply this: Your clothes fall to pieces O. their own weight-so to speak-and you pronounce steG1n aoashboilers, as they are, c .failttre. n
 THE PRINCIPLE OF THE WASHER AND BI.EAcHER embodies all the essential points. First, we hay, the desired heat, which expands the fabric ant causes it to discharge the dirt. Second, we obtail powerful suction beneath the clothes which cause sna Sro@gb te tbereb% Or ,1a o tt r9ng Third, we use large body of soater which holds thu dirt in solution. Fourth, we use but a small quan tity of soap. Fifth, the washing is done by water and not by sean This process cannot possibly injur fabrics. It cleanses thoroughly, rinsiag the cothe as usual being all that is required to complete tn operation.
 THE CAPACITY OF THE WASHER AND BLEAcHER.
 There are three sizes: No. 1, the family size; No 2, suitable for small hotels, restaurants, barber washer, into which is conducted, through 56 -inc pipe, live steam from the steam boiler from which l washer takes the place of machinery in publi laundries hotels, asylums, hospitals, pententiares and all places where steam power is used in tn laundries E. It is also used in sugar refneries fo cleansing the gunny bags, which has never been ac complished by the most powerful laundry machin cry heretofore invented; while this does it thor
 The Washer is composed of solid metal and can not get out of order.
 inches long by inches wide, and % inches deep. The discharge pipe is IS inches high over that and is E inches in diameter. It throws water in sod unbroken stream at the rate of 10 to 12 gallon } per minute. It will work in any common famil boiler, and if you wish will do the work in boile twice that size thereby enabling you to do twice much, or the same amount in half the time. takes only three or four ounces of soap to 10 or
 as Sed oe snd sd Ran w W1s 5 n liner
 fifteen minutes and do it perfectly; wearing appare in from twenty to thirty minutes, and will remov vious preparation of the clothes, such as soakin over night etc. We take the clothes dry and whe the Washer gets thOroYgh at se0rk we fiji the boile down with stick. We use no chemicals, only goo soap and soft water. If the water is hard it may softened by small piece of borax, which is per ! For LACE CURTAINS this Washer is inualuable. l Witbont ta ssest % danper off G am cause whatsoever.
 The Mo- 2, or small hotel size, will do the work fl
 a boiler four times the size of the common famil
 boiler, and wash of average pieces from 1,5OO t 2000 per day; or it may be used in any smaller boil . 8
 tom large enough for them to rest upon. l The large No. Power Washer works in a sooode
 tak, three feet square and three feet deep and h.
 capacity of 100 sheets or 500 towels and will of average pieces from 0000 to 12 900 per day;
 all cases doing the work perfectly without rubbin It requires no engine to drive it, dspenses with
 shafting, pulleys, belts and gear-consequently wit all the annoyance of breaking down, delay wearir r out and the expense of all these things
 For hospitals this Washer is pronounced by u medical faculty invaluable, being the most po,oe
 Jul and perJect disitector known to science; leavir the fabric as pure as when new. By engineers, m chanics and scientific men generally it is pronoun ed one of the most wonderful discoveries in u principle of hydraulics or ,cater torce ever broug
 to light. By bleachers and chemists it is said to the most powerful method of removing dirt and vel
 etable matter from fabrics that has ever been know
 most certainly is the greatest bleacher extant al X for that alone is worth ten times the price. |, HE PHILOSOPHY OF THE WASHER AND B1EAcHE is this: We have five lbs. of solid metal, which a
 tains a much greater degree of heat than the watt
 surrounding it, consequently the water s1ndcrneat the Washer becomes hotter and more expansive tha in other part of the boiler and thereby throw r to the surface through the tube; thus tending
 bottom of the boiler into which the water forcb and rapidly drawn.
 As it passes along the channels of the Washer, tn curved and contracted throats of the same preveI its flowing backward; and being held in contact wit the hot metal it becomes hotter and hotter, conse quently more expansive and more forcible unt thrown to the surface, thus producing 8 powerfu suction beneath the clothes through ,ohich the wae must pass in rapid docnsoard current thereby ob taining ,oater 50rce which cannot be obtained D any other method known in the art of cleansing fab
 rics. Thus, you see, we get combination. First we have the desired heat. Second, perfect chemica action of the soap. Third, force of ,oater-all o which required to thoroughly cleanse and purif any fabric.
 THE IMPROVED WASHER.
 The Improved Washer has perfect fitting pipe and is a combination of metals which does not be come sticky dirty. It comes out of the boiler a bright as new.
 2 A WORD ABOUT BLEACHING.
 There are few professional bleachers of fabric