. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . ard thestretching device takes up all the fullness, allowingthe roller to produce an even, flat finish to the wholefront of the shirt. After the roll has moved over thesurface of the table it is automatically raised and car-ried back to its original position, where it remains atrest until it is again employed by the operator. Thismachine is quite elaborate in construction, and too com-plicated to admit of a detailed description here. Itmay be said however, that its complications are nodetriment to th
. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . ard thestretching device takes up all the fullness, allowingthe roller to produce an even, flat finish to the wholefront of the shirt. After the roll has moved over thesurface of the table it is automatically raised and car-ried back to its original position, where it remains atrest until it is again employed by the operator. Thismachine is quite elaborate in construction, and too com-plicated to admit of a detailed description here. Itmay be said however, that its complications are nodetriment to the machine, as any machine built on thisplan, and doing the work which this is designed todo, must necessarily be complicated. The Henrici machine, shown in Fig. 46, differsfrom the Watson machine in every particular as re-gards construction and plan of operation, while theresult obtained is the same as in the Watson Henrici machine consists of a revolving drum overwhich is passed a canvas apron. This apron is carriedon rolls, which are mounted in line with the upper — 123 —. — 124 — edge of the drum. The drum being equally distantbetween the carrying rolls, it affords a continuous move-ment of a flat surface. Above this apron is a revolv-ing heated roll. The apron, the drum and the carrierrolls are mounted on a frame which is made to raiseand lower by means of a foot lever, thus carrying thewhole equally. The natural position of this drum andapron, when the machine is not in use, is at its lowestpoint, and when it is iri this position the apron is atrest, as it ;moves only when the drum is raised andpressed against the revolving lieated roll. The shirt, is laid flat on the apron, and passedunder the revolving roll, and when the shirt is in theright position with the end of the bosom directlyunder the heated roll, the drum is brought up, pressureis applied to the apron, which moves forward, carry-ing the shirt with it, thus ironing from the bottom ofthe bosom
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