HARDLEY'S PATENT STEAM WASHER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1577, 6 June 1887, Page 2

HARDLEY'S PATENT STEAM WASHER.

On Saturday, Mr Hardley, of Ashbnr ton, gave a public exhibition of the working of his newly-patented steam washing machine on a vacant Bection m Beswick street. There was a large gathering of people who watched the proceedings with interest. The ten minutes' interval batween putting the clothes In and removing them were enlivened by Mr Hardley, who is a brisk talker as well as a brisk worker. The clothes operated upon were of the dirtiest ; there were blackened moleskins, I greasy aprons, and filthy blankets, and I these were turned out m ten minutes quite cleansed. The machine differs from all others yet shown here. It consists of an ordinary portable boiler, having a perfectly air-tight metal lid, and from near the brim of. the boiler a pipe leads into a revolving cylinder which hangs m a stand and is turned by a handle. In this cylinder is another into which the clothes are packed. The machine is then kept turning and the steam generated m the boiler passes into the cylinder and completely saturates, m fact boils the clothes. In ten minutes a batoh of very dirty clothes are cleansed The propriet jr m tends travelling with the machine through the colonies and America, where, though it is the home of invention, he believes he can make his mark The Timaru agent, we understand, is Mr Geo. W. Wade.— " Timaru Herald," Monday.