![]() ![]() In contrast to their use in homes, mangles have become an essential feature of commercial or large-scale laundries. They are typically not sold in North American home appliance stores or departments. Small domestic pressing mangles may be more common in some countries than in others. By the 1950s, home ironers, or mangles, as they came to be called, were becoming popular time-savers for the homemaker.Ī modern, motorized mangle in a residential building's laundry room in Sweden By the 1940s the list had grown to include Bendix, General Electric, Kenmore and Maytag. There were many electric rotary ironers on the American market including Solent, Thor, Ironrite and Apex. This process takes much less time than ironing with the usual iron and ironing board. Laundry is fed into the turning mangle and emerges flat and pressed on the other side. They consist of a rotating padded drum which revolves against a heating element which can be stationary, or can also be a rotating drum. In the 1930s electric mangles were developed and are still a feature of many laundry rooms. of 108 Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois, offered a gas-heated home mangle for pressing linens in 1902. The rollers were typically made of wood, or sometimes rubber. Middle-class households and independent washerwomen used upright mangles for wringing water out of laundry, and in the later 19th century they were more widely used than early washing machines. Box mangles were large and primarily intended for pressing laundry smooth they were used by wealthy households, large commercial laundries, and self-employed "mangle women". Gradually, the electric washing machine's spin cycle rendered this use of a mangle obsolete, and with it the need to wring out water from clothes mechanically. In the second half of the 19th century, commercial laundries began using steam-powered mangles or ironers. The oldest known model is a Norwegian mangle board, found near Bergen and dated 1444. Some northern European countries used a table version for centuries, the device consisting of the rolling pin, a wood cylinder around which the damp cloth was wrapped, and the mangle board, a curved or flat length of wood which was used to roll and flatten the cloth. The word comes from the Dutch mangel, from mangelen "to mangle", which in turn derives from the medieval Latin mango or manga which ultimately comes from the Greek manganon, meaning "axis" or "engine". ![]() The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first use of the word mangle in English from 1598, quoting John Florio who, in his 1598 dictionary, A World of Words, described "a kind of press to press buckram, fustian, or dyed linen cloth, to make it have a luster or gloss". A 1923 electric Miele washing machine with a built-in mangle ![]()
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