A MANGLE, WHICH I CALL THE COMPLETE FAMILY ACCOMMODATION MANGLE,' FOR MANGLING LINEN AND OTHER CLOTHS
Year: 1813

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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSHUA
STOPFORD, of Belford, in the County of Northumberland, Clerk, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of March,
in the fifty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Joshua
Stopford, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, solė
privilege and authority, that I, the said Joshua Stopford, my exors, adññors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein
mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MANGLE, WHICH I CALL
THE COMPLETE FAMILY ACCOMMODATION MANGLE,' FOR MANGLING LINEN AND
OTHER CLOTHS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
that if I, the said Joshua Stopford, shall not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly case, determine, and
become void, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joshua Stopford, do hereby declare that my said Invention consists in the
combination of certain mechanical powers, by means of which a machine for
mangling is so constructed as to take up very little room, while the frame is
made to constitute a useful piece of furniture, and the operation of mangling
is rendered more easy and less liable to danger and accidents. The construction
of this machine is as follows:- -
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There are three rollers lying in an horizontal position, one above the other.
The bottom roller is fixed to the frame, and revolves on its own axis or
gudgeon; the gudgeons of the other two rollers are fixed in levers or arms,
moveable on centers in the front part of the frame. By this contrivance the
rollers are enabled to rise freely with the levers as the linen to be mangled
passes between them.
part of the machine.
The levers of the upper roller extend to the back
At the end of each lever is a grooved inverted pulley,
over which a chain passes, supporting a weight of about four stone, and
fastened at the other extremity to the frame of the machine. By the action
of these weights upon the levers and pulleys the pressure may be multiplied
to any degree required, and as the rollers only take up a very small portion
of the frame, it is so constructed as to form a very convenient chest of drawers,
press, or bureau, and the upper part of the front is made to let down to serve
as a mangling table; and this adapting of 'the frame to answer the purpose
of a piece of furniture is considered as a useful part of the Invention. The
principle of this machine, in which it differs from other mangles, is, in the
application of the lever and inverted pulley to occasion the pressure. In this
it differs from the common mangle, and from Morris's Patent. It is superior
to the portable mangle, in which, as the pressure arises from the action of a
screw, it cannot give way to the inequalities of the linen. Its construction
is not so complicated as that of Morris's, and the use of it cannot be attended
with any danger. The rollers, as they can be shut up, may be preserved
clean and free from dust, while the size and form of the machine render it
suitable for families of every description, and not inconvenient in the smallest
apartments.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joshua Stopford, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
JOSHUA STOPFORD. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1813, the aforesaid Joshua Stopford came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowleged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and