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 FINISHING OF COUNTRY INNS. 701 opens on one side to admit the linen, and then closes firmlj'. The interior surface of the box is grooved, to receive the water when pressed out. The pressure is applied by- means of a sliding plate, which fits the box, and is forced against the end of the bag by a rack and pinion, and turned by a winch. The sides of box prevent the bag from be- coming wider ; the pressure applied has therefore the effect of shortening the bag, tiU all the water is pressed out into the grooves. By this machine, the clothes are squeezed much drier than by the common method ; and, the pressure upon all parts being uniform, less injury is done to the texture of the linen." (Ibid. p. 62.) 1466. In the Laundry of an Inn there might be a drying-closet, heated either by steam or by a hot-air stove, in the very superior manner described by Mr. Sylvester, as being in use in the Derbyshire Infirmary. Instead of the cockle employed in that institution, a furnace and flues, the latter of cast iron, might be made use of. In this case, the flues might be arranged in the manner adopted by Mr. Read in his hop-kiln, § 1272, the con- volutions being brought into a space not exceeding the area of the bottom of the drying- closet. On this subject we refer our readers to the drying-closet which we have already given, § 306, and to that described in the woik of Mr. Sylvester. 1467. For the Water-closet of the Kitchen Courts and Stable Courts of Inns, we should recommend the very excellent plan adopted in the Derbyshire Infirmary, and thus described by Mr. Sylvester : — " The great superiority of thiswater-closetabove all others is, its preventing any smell, without the least care of the person using it. The person who enters it fills it with fresh air, which is left behindon coming out. Tlie manner in which tliis is ef- fected we shall now explain. Fig. 1336 is a plan of the water-closet : a, the en- trance into the first part ; 6 is a door attached to, and turning upon the arbor (a spindle or axis) c, which is shown more at large at the same letter in tig. 1338 ; cZ is a bar of wood inserted into the same, and having the same radius with the door, fits the concave cy- lindrical space, the air is driven before d, and escapes at the ceiling over the seat, e; by this motion the door is brought up to the wooden divi- sion, f and the end of the bar, d, is brought to the point g; A is a small closet, made for the pur- pose of reducing the space in front of the seat to what is suf- ficient room. When the person returns, he is obliged to ptish the bar, d, which now is in the position c a, before him, till he brings it close against the other side of y. During the returning motion, one of the panels of the door, i, in fig. 1337, is iuade a valve, and, opening inwards, lets in fresh air to supply the place of that driven out on entering the closet. At one particular