AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



95 



It is light, portable, durable, simple in construction, not liable to get out of 

 order, easy to operate; will wash twelve shirts or their equivalent — say thirty 

 yards of cloth — in from five to fifteen minutes, according to their condition ; and 

 can be operated on by a boy or girl of twelve or fifteen years old. Will wash bed- 

 quilts, carpets, and the heaviest articles perfectly clean, and equally well the finest 

 fabrics, and all kinds of clothing. It rinses clear. Will not injure the most deli- 

 cate buttons or wearing apparel. One of its chief recommendations is that it saves 

 the wear of the clothes, occasioned by the use of the rubbing-board, and it will 

 save more than half the time, labor, and expense of washing by hand. Price $10. 



[^ diploma awarded. 



Hay^s Railroad Chairs. 



Adam Hay, Xewark, N. J. 



The object of the invention was to construct a chair which, while it shall afford 

 the usual convenience for laying the track, and the usual rest, shall also firmly 

 support the outer flange of the rail, and by means of a wedge combine the chair 

 and rail perpendicularly as well as laterally together in one piece, in such a manner 



