Washing machine

a contrivance by means ‘of which clothes are cleansed from dirt. The following, given by Dr. Willich, is _a description of 2 washing machine lately invented in Germany, by M. M. Fischer and Kerzig. Sr (PI. 173, fig. 1.jaua, is a section of the washing cylinder, with its sixteen ladles, projecting four inches; but of these ladles only four jut out internally, as represented by the dotted line at 6, b, b, etary ‘¢, the iron roller, which-is on the outside, fixed to the bottom of the cylinder, by means of an iron cro at d, d, d, d, with screws or nails: it rests on the beam e, so as to be upheld in the four excavated columns or posts /, 4, ff by the lever g, and to be either raised or lowered, and afterwards secured by the pins h, hk, according to the greater or le depth of water. Ree rece ¢, the cistern, at the sides of which the four ‘posts are firmly inserted. (Fig. 2.)—A bird’s-eye view of the machine. The laths between the ladles may be here distinctly seen, together with the roller, ¢, c, as it rests on the beam or supporter e, e, e, e, and ig seeuredsby!atap, Kii'ein iyo aie a ‘d, the boarded floor above the cistern or reservoir of water, on which the person stands, when the cylinder is to be placed higher or lower...) By means of this excellent contrivance, we