AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS UPON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MACHINE USUALLY CALLED A MANGLE, FOR THE PRESSING OF LINNEN AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HAYES, of Wood Street, in the Parish of Saint Alphage, Saint Giles's,
Cripplegate, within the City of London, Callico Glazier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Nineteenth day of May, in the thirty-second year of His reign, did
give unto me, the said Thomas Hayes, His especial licence, that I, the said
Thomas Hayes, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS UPON
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MACHINE USUALLY CALLED A MANGLE, FOR THE PRESSING
OF LINNEN AND OTHER ARTICLES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
& proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Hayes, under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chan-
cery within one calendar month next 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 annear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of the said proviso, I. the said Thomas
Hayes, do hereby declare that the several Plans or Drawings hereunto annexed
contain the several parts necessary for the construction of and also a compleat
form of my said Improvement, and that the said several Plans or Drawings,
with the references thereto herein-after mentioned, contain a particular
description of the said Invention, and which references are as follows (that is
to say) :-
Fig. 1 represents a plate with iron teeth projecting in a row from the
center, and which are fastened by thin pieces for screws, one at each end, and
one in the middle. Fig. 2, an iron frame with cross bars to support Fig. 1.
Fig. 3, the wood work for Fig. 1 and 2, to which they are to be screwed.
Fig. 4, the whole of the above screwed or joined together with thin pieces of
wood on each side of the teeth. Fig. 5, a view of Fig. 4, having the arbor and
the cog or pinion wheel in it, as at a, with the other end of the arbor fixed in
the winch, as at 6, and to which a fly wheel may be fixed, as shown in Fig. 15.
Fig. 6, the iron cog or pinion wheel in which the arbor is fixed, as at a. Fig.
7,7, two representations of the arbor, ono with the cog, the other without.
Fig. 8, the winch and nut. Fig. 9, the roll against which Fig. 4, supporting
the teeth, passes and repasses by the operation of the cog wheel. Fig. 10,
view of Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and -7, as put together for working. Fig. 11, a
side view of a mortice cock, one to be fixed at each end of the mangle. Fig.
12, the upright piece that stands between the horizontal picco and the
top; its use is to carry one end of the arbor and pinion wheel. 1, a perspec-
tive view of the above mangle, with the Improvements except the fly wheel,
which is seen in Fig. 15. Fig. 13, a top with dovetail tenons. Fig. 14, an
horizontal piece with tenons between which the roller, Fig. 9, turns, as scen
in the end of mangle C. Fig. 15, a fly wheel which, by the handle c,
turns and regulates the machine. The new Improvements which are added
to the old manglo are represented by Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 12.
C, an end view of the mangle, with the Improvements added, that by
turning the winch continually one way the box of the mangle is mado to go
regular backwards and forwards. D represents another mangle, on another
improved construction. Fig. 16, a top or cap with dovetail tenons. Fig. 17,
a spindle or arbor with a square part in the center as at d, but round at c, c,
for the wood or iron tube roller to turn or work on. Fig. 18, 18, two views
of a metal slide with a square hole in the center, to move on the spindlo as
at d, and a pin or pins projecting from each side as at e, e, e. Fig. 19, 19, tubo
rollers, made either of iron or any other metal, or of wood, and which turn on

page_text: the round part of the arbor, and to which the ropes are fixed, and at one of
cach is a spur that takes hold of the pin in the slide, and is released therefrom
as occasion requires. Fig. 20, a moving wedge, block, or bolt, fixed on the
top of the mangle, to move the metal slide 18, which is fastened on with a
screw or bolt 27. Fig. 21, the winch. Fig. 22, a fly wheel, fixed at the
opposite end of the arbor to the winch, or may be fixed next the winch as in
the mangle C. Fig. 23, the nuts to be screwed on to keep the winch and fly
wheel tight. Fig. 24, 24, the ropes; one end of each rope is fixed to the tube.
Fig. 25, the metal piece which is fixed on each end of the mangle box:
and to which the other end of the rope is fixed. Fig. 26, a scale.
By viewing in-this mangle the above Figures, beginning at 16 and ending
at 27, the mode of putting it together for use will be easily discerned. Fig.
16 is to be placed in the mortices of the mangle posts at e, c. Fig. 17 is to
have one end placed in the center of the fly wheel at f, and the other in the
winch at 9. Fig. 19, 19, are placed upon the arbor c, c, previous to the arbor
being fixed in the fly wheel and winch. Fig. 20, 20, are to be placed on the
upper ends of the mangle box. Fig. 21 is fixed on the spindle at g. Fig. 22
is fixed on the end of the spindle, at f, and fastened by the nuts 23, 23.
24, the ropes fastened to the tubes. 25, the metal piece. When the above
several pieces are fixed as above to the old mangle, as seen in Figure D, a
perpetual moving of the mangle box backwards and forwards is effected by
only turning the winch one way, and not backwards and forwards as in the
common mangles, which also produces the same motion in the mangles
described in Figure B.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Hayes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of June, in the thirty-second 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-two.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of June, in the
thirty-second year of the reign of Iis Majesty King George the Third, the
said Thomas IIayes camo before our said Lord the King in his Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made
in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary
of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the
reign of His present Majesty King George the Third.