AN IMPROVED MANGLE
Year: 1832

page_text: HUBIE'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HUBIE, of the City of York, Joiner and Cabinet Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King William the Fourth, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of June now last past,
did give and grant unto me, the said William Hubie, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Hubie, my
execntors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Hubie, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "AN IMPROVED MANGLE;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Hubie, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Hubie, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and
ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and as follows, that
is to say:
The operative machinery of my improved mangle consists of three rollers
and a spring; their arrangement and relative proportions I claim as being
entirely new and of my own Invention. The annexed Drawings, as they are

page_text: here referred to it, will afford a full and clear explanation of every particular
part of my said Invention.
The three rollers A, B, C, are placed as in the Drawing No. 1, with their
axles in a vertical plane, the lower roller C three feet, the middle roller B six
inches, and the upper roller A one foot eight inches diameter, and two feet
each in length. The axles of the two upper rollers A and B work in bushes
fixed in slides at each end; as shewn in the Drawing at D and E, Figure 1,
so as to move up and down independently of each other. Under the beam at
the top, marked A in Drawing No. 2, is fixed a strong steel spring bearing
upon the ends of the slides in which the upper-roller works. The aforesaid
beam is screwed down at each end, so as to admit of the pressure being
adjusted, and which should not be less than forty stone on the bare rollers.
The machinery for working the mangle consists of a toothed wheel one foot
in diameter, fixed to the axle of the middle roller, as shewn at B in..Draw-
ing No. 2, and at C in Drawing No. 8, under which is placed another
toothed wheel, three inches in diameter, as at D in Drawing No. 2, and E
in Drawing No. 3, fixed to the slide in which the axle of the middle. roller
works. To the centre of this smaller wheel is fixed a fly. G; in Drawing
No. 3, three feet in diameter. The handle is placed at the side, as at F in
Drawing No. 3, and is connected with and works the fly.by double cranks, as
shewn in the Drawing No. 2 and No. 3. It is intended that the articles.to
be mangled should be laid upon a cloth fastened to the middle roller, as
shewn at F in Drawing No. 1, that as the roller is made to revolve, they
may be drawn in with it and wrapped round the roller.
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In witness whereof, I, the said William Hubie, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
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