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 INTERIOR FINISHING OF FARM HOUSES. 659 severe labour. In this machine, a is the box containing the water and the clothes to be washed by the movement backwards and forwards of the washer, b ; c c c are three rollers, two of which are covered with flannel, and between the largest of which the clothes to be wrung are passed, and the water pressed out of them, the pressure being increased or diminished by changing the position of the weights, d, on the levers, e. The other parts of the machine require no further description in a work merely intended to recommend it to general adoption, as one of the very best washing-madiines that have ever lieen invented ; being, we believe, the only one that has a really efficient wringing- machine. In the case of all large farm establishments, we would recommend the wash- house and laundry to be detached from the house ; and to contain, besides the wasliing- machine mentioned, a mangle and drying-closet, the use of all which should be allowed, for one or two days in every week, to the families of the diflferent workmen employed on the farm. There is a number of different mangles ; but we are informed by a ma- nufacturer of several kinds, on whose judgment we can place the utmost reliance, that none have yet appeared preferable to the common mangle, with the improved reversing movement, known as Baker's Patent, fig. 1263, by which the mangle may be moved backwards and forwards while the handle is turned continually one way, instead of the operator being required every minute to reverse the motion of his arm. This is eflecttd by a wheel, a, having teeth in the form of pegs on the side, into which works a pinion. l;i63 fixed on the end of a spindle, which rises and falls in a vertical groove, c, and worLs first on the under side, and then turns round upper side. The opposite end of the spindle has a pinion, e, which is operated upon by a small wheel, which is turned by the handle, f. Where space is wanting, there are short mangles, which operate entirely by the pressure of leverage ; such as Saul's Reform Mangle, and the Edinburgh Reform Mangle, and a number of others. We shall describe a very economical mangle, given in the Mechanics' Ma- gazine, vol. xi. p. 104, and Saul's Reform Mangle. Fig. 12G4 is an end view of a cheap family mangle, which is one foot four inches high, eight inches broad, and the rollers are two feet two inches long ; a is a screw fixed to a piece of wood in which the upper roller works, for the purpose of raising it so as to put the linen between the two rollers ; b, c are the pieces of wood in which the rollers work, fitted into grooves, in the upright standards, d, e; channel at d, and works on the /. H_^ g l^llHillirH'rlliilillilli.l ' Mais