New Mechanical Aids to Domestic Service. •

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 38, 3 August 1870, Page 6

New Mechanical Aids to Domestic Service. •

A correspondent of the Englishwoman's & Domestic lagazinc enumerates the follow- \ ing recent inventions for the assistance of a bousewivtfc and servants The patent * boot and shoo cleaning machine is very useful, bfcaiise not only are the boots and \ shoes cleaned much more quickly by ena- 1 bling the operator to use two brushes at r once, but they are much more easily and a brilliantly polished, and the inside of the 1 boot is by its use kept perfectly clean, and * all those stains and black marks so disagreeable to ladies are avoided. The price ■, of this apparatus is 10s. 6d. Next we < come to the champion carpet-sweeper. The 1 swtpper is a brush enclosed in a box, and 1 is Equally efficient upon coarse and, hard ' carpets. It sweeps both ways, and has the advantage of an adjusting handle ; it" will sweep *under a bed or sofa without.. removal. The bristles of the brush are 1 set at such an angle that not only dust/fluff, <fec., are taken up, but threads, pins, f#iid needles. It moves upon two rollers, toMSP&nd front; these prevent any wearing -fobbing action upon the carpet. Indiasi ij rubber ‘squeegee' is a funny name for«j \ „us&sih scraper which is made in four sizesjoa 7® nfl ,c shich is used to remove Superfluous' ! skater from bath-room floors, to wash down tiles, and for brick and stone floors. They are also used for the decks of vessels, and I believe would be useful, for boarded floors, as they almost dryithflj j floor in passing over it The price jfo* tlie largest size. The patent bread-* 1 rifekftig machine is, I am informed, a great sdfl®&s. Instructions and recipes for breath iMking are sent out with the machine, , which is made in five sizes, the smallest making from 4 Jbs. to 8 lbs. of breadpthe largest from 60 lbs. to 100 lbs. The knead* ing machine kneads from 6 lbs. to U lbs, of flour into a perfect dough, which is very readily emptied by turning the trough. One person can easily work this. When the bread is kneaded, made, and baked, an ingenious little machine slices it into any aizC&slice or square piece. Then there are %lMng-machihes and egg-beaters, mincing ’Sausage-making machines, coffee-mijjaj and coffee-roasters, a bean and vegetable' Gutter, shaped vegetable cutters, garplshi (Gutters, french scoops, apple-paring machine which pares, cores, 1 and slices at once; French rocking-mincers, the four-knife mincer, which acts as if four persons were mincing away for their lives; the chopping board and knife for suet, herbs, or vegetables. Then comes a potato, washer for washing that useful vegetalri|' l! when it is required in large quantities {j and a self-acting barrel-tilt, which raises’" the barrel of beer in proportion to ifeCfea/ sening weight.”