Mangle, a valuable domestic machine, employed for the purpose of smoothing such linen as cannot be conveniently ironed.

Various patents have been granted for improvements in this machinery : but, as they are not expired, and too complicated to be understood without the aid of engravings, we have annexed the following cut, representing an improved mangle contrived by Mr. Jee, of Rotherham ; to whom the. Society for the Encouragement of Arts, etc. in 1798, voted their silver medal, for his ingenuity displayed on that occasion.

Description

Description of Mr. Jee's improved Mangle.

A, the great wheel, which, in machines of a full size, is 15 inches in diameter.

B, the arbor, on which the nut, C, is fixed.

D, the handle of the winch.

E, the crank, 21 inches in length.

F, the rod of the crank.

G G, represent the hollow studs, by which the ends of the bed are lifted up.

H H, the levers.

I I, the four pullies fixed on the moveable bed K.

L L, the ends of the rollers.

The small figure in this cut represents a front view of one of the hollow studs G, to shew its form, when standing at the end of the bed; and into which the levers enter alternately, as often as it becomes necessary to elevate the bed, in order to put in, or take out, the rollers.

Mr. Jee's mangle is so constructed, that the handle requires to be turned one way only, in consequence of which the machine-moves with greater facility, and with incomparably less injury to the linen, than by varying the turnings, and in a manner cutting: the different folds. Besides, it possesses the great advantage, that a woman and one boy are sufficient to work it, and can perform as much labour in the same period of time, as three or four persons with mangles of the common construction.