. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . laundry-men do not button the shirts and set the yokes, althoughshould the price warrant it this would be an ideal wayof handling old work. As it is, the flat-iron, usuallytakes the place of the yoke-setter. Where space will permit, the machines are arrangedpractically in the same order as for new work, it beingdesirable that the work should go from one operatorto another in the order in which the work is done. Itis also necessary to have the same racks and tables dis-tributed about as for new work.
. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . laundry-men do not button the shirts and set the yokes, althoughshould the price warrant it this would be an ideal wayof handling old work. As it is, the flat-iron, usuallytakes the place of the yoke-setter. Where space will permit, the machines are arrangedpractically in the same order as for new work, it beingdesirable that the work should go from one operatorto another in the order in which the work is done. Itis also necessary to have the same racks and tables dis-tributed about as for new work. The bosom-fixing table is not placed in the sameposition in the line of machines arranged for old as fornew work, but it is used after the sleeves and the bodiesare ironed. It serves not only as a bosom-fixing table,hut as a folding table as well. Of course if anyonechooses to adopt the same method for laundering oldwork, that which has been described for laundering newwork, he will have a hosom-fixing table and a these are omitted, however, and the shirts go I 283 —. Fig. 84. FINTSHrNG MACHINE, (Nelson & Kreuter.) — 284 — directly from the wristband ironer to the sleeve and thebody ironers. There are maehines manufactured that are knownas finishing machines, and a great many laundries usethem. They are designed to finish the bosom underthe plaits and around the neckband, and to touch up anyimperfection there may be in the bosom. One type ofthis machine is made with a gas-heated iron having aprojecting flange which is made wedge-shaped to allowit to pass under the plait and iron that portion of theshirt that is not touched by the bosom ironer. It hasa bosom board over which the shirt is drawn and thaskirt clamj)ed, the neckband being towards the oper-ator. The heated iron is mounted on a universallyswinging arm which permits it to be moved to any posi-tion on the bosom board. To this arm pressure is ap-plied by means of a spring and its own weight, and
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