. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . particularly for colored the first place the hot starch and the action of themachine is very destructive to colors and causes agreat many wrinkles which it is almost impossible toremove. The shape of new collars and cuffs shouldalways be considered, and where they are starched ina dip-wheel it is about impossible to get them true inregard to shape. Of course, on the better grades ofcollars and cuffs it is possible that they may be handledin a dip-wheel, but it is preferable that they be star
. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . particularly for colored the first place the hot starch and the action of themachine is very destructive to colors and causes agreat many wrinkles which it is almost impossible toremove. The shape of new collars and cuffs shouldalways be considered, and where they are starched ina dip-wheel it is about impossible to get them true inregard to shape. Of course, on the better grades ofcollars and cuffs it is possible that they may be handledin a dip-wheel, but it is preferable that they be starchedon some good collar starcher. The majority of thecolored work at the present time is starched dry, thatis to say, it is not washed at all, but simply run through — 38 — the machine and starched. Much of this goods ismanufactured and made into collars and cuffs whichgo with either negligee or stiff-bosom shirts, and areof the same pattern as the collars and cuffs. T^egligeeshirts are not starched at all excepting neck and wrist-bands, and the collars and cuffs must necessarily match. Fig. 8. McKAY COIiLAR AND CUFF STARCHER, (Troy Laundry Machinery Co.) them in shade and color. This is easily accomplishedby starching them dry on the collar starching many instances, manufacturers of new whitecollars and cuffs are using collar and cuff starching ma-chines. I believe it to be of advantage on this classof work, as the cost of starching new goods is muchgreater than starching old work, and therefore it iseconomy to have a collar starching machine. TheMcKay Collar and Cuff Starcher, shown in Fig. 8, 39 —
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