AN IMPROVED PORTABLE MANGLE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTEES PATENT to William Newzam Nicholson, of Newark-upon-
Trent, in the County of Nottingham, Engineer, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE MANGLE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Newzam
Nicholson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th December 1868.
I, WILLIAM NEWZAM NICHOLSON, of Newark-upon-Trent, in the
County of Nottingham, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE MANGLE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of two rollers of small diameter geared together.
with toothed wheels having a winch handle to actuate the same direct
without any intermediate wheels.
The bearings of the lower roller are sunk in horizontal stretchers made
of wood on each side of and at right angles to the rollers, which
stretchers are connected by flat pieces of wood on each side the roller,

page_text: the said flat pieces acting as folding boards. Immediately over these
stretchers are two similar pieces, in which the bearings of the upper
roller are sunk, and they are secured to the lower stretchers by screws
having fly nuts or analagous contrivance so as to be readily adjusted to
give the necessary pressure on the rollers, it being essential to my
Invention that the stretchers shall have the property of springs and act
both for that purpose and as a portion of the framework of the mangle.
By removing the fly nuts the rollers are readily withdrawn and replaced
by others. One or both of the rollers may be made of metal so as to be
heated on a laundry stove or hot plate when it is wished to give a better
surface to the clothes operated on.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said William
Newzam Nicholson in the Great Scal Patent Office on the 8th July
1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
NEWZAM NICHOLSON, of Newark-upon-Trent, in the County of
Nottingham, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Newzam Nicholson,
Her special licenco that I, the said William Newzam Nicholson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Newzam Nicholson, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, usc, excrcise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Ohannel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE MANGLE," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William Newzam Nicholson, my
exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Newzam Nicholson, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had unto the
Drawings hereunto annexed:-
My Invention consists of two rollers having gear wheels and winch
handle to actuate the same, without any intermediate wheels, so disposed
that the bearings in which the rollers work or are actuated shall form
both the framework of the machine or mangle and the springs required
to give the necessary pressure on the rollers when the machine is being
worked.
The roller, having the handle attached, is disposed between and in
bearings formed upon the centre of two horizontal stretchers or bars of
wood, which stretchers or bars form the basement of tho mangle at
each side of the roller, and connecting these stretchers or bars are flat
pieces of wood which also act as folding boards. Immediately over these
stretchers or bars I place two similar pieces which receive the top roller
and hold it in position; these pieces are secured at one or both ends by
screws or bolts with fly nuts or other contrivance, so as to be readily
adjusted to give the necessary pressure on the rollers. It is essential to
my Invention that the said stretchers or bars shall have the property of
a spring, and act both for that purpose and as a portion of the frame-
work of the mangle. The framework is so arranged that by withdrawing
the screws, bolts, or other contrivance used the rollers can be readily
removed and others put in their place. One or both of these rollers may
be made of metal, so as to be heated on a laundry stove or hot plate
when it is wished to give a better finish to the clothes operated on. At
each of the four corners of the bottom of the mangle I fix a small
spike, so as slightly to enter a table or other surface whereupon the
mangle may stand when in use for the purpose of keeping it firmly in
position.
The manner in which I arrange the horizontal stretchers or bars is
shewn in the accompanying Drawings. A, A, are the stretchers or bars
forming the basement of the mangle; B, B, are the upper stretcher or
bars holding the top roller in position, and acting together with the

page_text: bottom stretchers or bars as a spring giving the requisite pressure on
the rollers C, C; D, D, shews bolts with nuts, connecting these
stretchers together and adjustable.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, I declare I
claim,―
First. The method of constructing a mangle so that the framework
shall have the property of a spring, and shall act as such in giving the
necessary pressure to the rollers.
Secondly. The use of one or more metal rollers in conjunction with
this construction of mangle.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Newzam Nicholson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of
May, in the year of our Lord One thousand-eight-hundred-and
sixty-nine.
WILLIAM NEWZAM NICHOLSON. (L.S.)