A PORTABLE MANGLE FOR CALENDERING LINEN, COTTON, SILKS, STUFFS, AND OTHER THINGS, AND FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES THAT MANGLES OR CALEN- DARS HAVE BEEN HITHERTO USED, WITHOUT THE INCUMBRANCE OF WEIGHT, AND WHICH STANDS IN ONE-THIRD OF THE ROOM OF MANGLES OR HAND CALENDARS NOW GENERALLY USED
Year: 1797

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
OXENHAM, of Oxford Street, in the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, Mangle and Press Maker; send greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-
eighth day of February, in the thirty-seventh year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas Oxenham, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His especial licence that I, the said Thomas Oxenham, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, might make, use, exercise, and vend
my Invention of "A PORTABLE MANGLE FOR CALENDERING LINEN, COTTON, SILKS,
STUFFS, AND OTHER THINGS, AND FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES THAT MANGLES OR CALEN-
DARS HAVE BEEN HITHERTO USED, WITHOUT THE INCUMBRANCE OF WEIGHT, AND WHICH
STANDS IN ONE-THIRD OF THE ROOM OF MANGLES OR HAND CALENDARS NOW GENERALLY
USED," within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for and
during the term of years therein mentioned; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Thomas Oxenham, did not par-
ticularly 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 one calendar month next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-

page_text: before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in
and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Oxenham, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars
in the Plan thereof hereunto annexed, and the following description thereof,
that is to say:-
Figure No. 1 is a perspective view of a machine or lever mangle; Figure 2 is
the bottom cylinder of wood or metal, with the wheel affixed to its axis; Figure 3-
is the top cylinder of wood or metal, with its spindle or axis; Figure 4 is a
handle, with its axis and fly wheel affixed; Figure 5 is a handle; Figure 6 is
a bearing bar of wood or metal; Figure 7 is a chain or strap of iron, leather,
rope, or any other article, to fix to bearing bar; Figure 8 is a large wheel;
Figure 9 is a small wheel; either of these wheels may be made of wood or
metal. Figure 10 is a table, either hung with hinges or a plain board;
Figure 11 is a handle, with a small wheel affixed to its axis or spindle; Figure
12 is a sliding block of wood or metal thro' which the bearing bar (Fig. 6)
goes; Figure 13 is a metal collar on which the axis or spindles work;
Figure 14 is the lever of wood or metal, either straight or curved; Figure 15.
is the weight that hangs on the lever to cause the pressure; Figure 16 is the
bar on which the lever acts, of wood or metal, with its saddles affixed to it;
Figure 17 is a wood or metal saddle to guide the lever; Figure 18 is a large
fly wheel; Figure 19 is a swing rail, on which the flap of the table rests and is
supported. To perform work with this machine or mangle, the linen or any
other article to be calendered or mangled must be wound round one of the
cylinders, either with or without (what is commonly called) a mangle cloth.
The linen or other article being thus wound round the cylinder, by turning the
handle the whole machine or mangle is put in motion, and the work is
performed by repeating the rotative motion of the cylinders.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Oxenham, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the Thirty-seventh
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord-One thousand-
seven hundred and ninety-seven.
THOMAS (L.S.) OXENHAM.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-eighth day of March,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Oxenham came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 made and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year above
mentioned.