. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . Fig. 42. YOKE SETTER. (.A. T. Hagen Co.) — ] 19 — The iron has a handle bv which the operator may movethe iron to any position desired. There is also a springattachment, which produces a certain amount of pressureon the iron. The iron is square in shape, having abeveled side and rounded edges on three sides, while. Fig. 43. YOKE SETTER. (Henrici Laundry Machinery Co.) on one side the edge is square-cornered. The iron maybe turned into any position. The yoke-setting machineis used to set the yokes of


. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . Fig. 42. YOKE SETTER. (.A. T. Hagen Co.) — ] 19 — The iron has a handle bv which the operator may movethe iron to any position desired. There is also a springattachment, which produces a certain amount of pressureon the iron. The iron is square in shape, having abeveled side and rounded edges on three sides, while. Fig. 43. YOKE SETTER. (Henrici Laundry Machinery Co.) on one side the edge is square-cornered. The iron maybe turned into any position. The yoke-setting machineis used to set the yokes of shirts after they come fromthe bosom-fixing table. It irons the yoke smoothlyand sticks it firmly together ?o that it will hold theshirt in proper shape when folded. — 120 — CHAPTER 12. SLEEVE AND BODY-IRONERS. The next machine in order, after the yoke-setter^is the sleeve-ironing machine, an example of which isillustrated in This machine is of the sametype as the one already described for ironing backs, thedifference consisting only in its having shorter rolls for this machine should be about twenty incheslong. Some laundrymen iron sleeves on a lighter ma-chine with a shorter roll, but in order to iron a sleevewell, and to preserve the shape of the shirt, the shirtshould be ironed on the side as far down as the bottomof the bosom. Starting from the side line of thebosom, the


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