A COMBINED PORTABLE MANGLE ON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF MANGLING EVERY ARTICLE WHICH HAS HITHERTO BEEN MANGLED IN A MUCH MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN BY ANY OTHER MACHINE OR METHOD HITHERTO DISCOVERED
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
WEBSTER, of Mount Fields, Shrewsbury, in the County of Salop, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of January, in the fifty-second year of
His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Webster, His especial
licence, that I, the said Robert Webster, during the term of years
therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercize, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A COMBINED PORTABLE MANGLE ON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION
FOR THE PURPOSE OF MANGLING EVERY ARTICLE WHICH HAS HITHERTO BEEN MANGLED
IN A MUCH MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN BY ANY OTHER MACHINE OR METHOD
HITHERTO DISCOVERED;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said Robert Webster, under my hand and seal,
to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Webster, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following (that is to say):—
This combined portable mangle consists of three rollers accurately made,
and fixed in a perpendicular line above each other within the upright frame
A, A, as per Drawing; B, the bottom roller, made of hard seasoned wood,
about eleven inches in diameter and thirty inches long; the outside of this

page_text: roller is covered with strong glazed pasteboard, such as is used for hot pressing
cloth. The iron axis of this roller is well secured, and passes through the
roller, the pivots of which turn on bell-metal bushes. C, the middle roller is
similar to the former in its materials and length, the diameter from eleven to
thirteen inches, the surface of which is first covered with cloth, and then with
the glazed pasteboard by means of a cement which resists heat (of which there
are many different sorts); across the line of this roller C a mangle cloth is
fastened, the use of which is hereafter explained; on each end of the axis of
this roller there are levers E, E, pressing upon them by means of weights
suspended at each end of the levers. N.B.-Observe, that this axis has liberty
within their bushes to traverse up and down, sufficient to give room for any
thickness of clothes. At one end of the roller C there is a wheel whose diameter
is a little more than the rollers, opposite to which there is a pinion upon
an axis that drives this wheel, the diameter of which may be a third or fourth
of it; on the one end of this axis a wince or handle screws on when in work;
at the other end a fly wheel causes the motion to be uniform, and is also move-
able when out of work; D, a cast iron hollow roller about three inches
diameter, which requires to rise and fall double the space of the middle roller
C; this roller D receives irons made hot within its cavity, the outside is
covered with the same materials as the middle roller. N.B.-Two short levers
F is to be applied as upon the axis of the middle roller C; above the pinion
before described is a conducting frame hanging on two pivots (as per Drawing,
on the top of which are two brass forks fastened to receive a small conducting
roller.
The method of using the mangle is as follows:- Put whatever clothes are
intended to be mangled each time into the box at the bottom of the frame,
as will be seen by Drawing annexed, then by turning, the wince will bring the
mangle cloth (which is fastened across the roller C, will admit of its being put
over the conducting frame; the one end of the clothes are then placed between
the mangle cloth and the roller C, placing the small conducting roller on the
whole and turning the handle, the clothes are immediately received upon it
perfectly tight and smooth. When they are sufficiently mangled, which will
require but a very short time, the clothes are taken off the roller by reversing
the motion, which causes them to drop back into the same box. Observing
to begin the reverse motion when the ends of the clothes face the same box.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Webster, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twelve.
ROBERT WEBSTER. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Ninth day of March,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Robert Webster came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case mad and provided.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of March in the year above written.