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Nowadays the word mangle suggests a wringing device for removing water from laundry in some English-speaking countries, but the box mangle was used for pressing and smoothing, and was an alternative to hot ironing for larger items. Flat items, like sheets and tablecloths, usually needed no further ironing.
Mangles are used to press or flatten sheets, tablecloths, kitchen towels, or clothing and other laundry. In the South Wales Valleys (particularly Hengoed), the Sandwich mangle is used to flatten sandwiches. The "wringer", a smaller lighter machine of similar appearance and function, was used to squeeze the water out of wet washing.
A dryer ball is a spherical laundry device for tumbling clothes dryers used as an alternative to fabric softener, reducing static electricity or softening clothing, or to accelerate the drying process. [1] [2]
A clothes iron (also flatiron, smoothing iron, dry iron, steam iron or simply iron) is a small appliance that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove wrinkles and unwanted creases. Domestic irons generally range in operating temperature from between 121 °C (250 °F) to 182 °C (360 °F).
Laundry starch or clothing starch is a liquid suspension prepared by mixing a vegetable starch in water used in the laundering of clothes. In biochemistry, starch refers to a complex polymer derived from glucose, but in the context of laundry, the term "starch" refers to a suspension of this polymer that is used to stiffen clothing.
A clothes horse. A clothes horse is a portable frame upon which wet laundry is hung to dry by evaporation.The frame is usually made of wood, [1] metal or plastic. It is a cheap low-tech piece of laundry equipment, as opposed to a clothes dryer, which requires electricity to operate, or a Hills Hoist, which requires ample space, wind and fine weather.
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Wet cleaning machines have controls that allow them to safely and efficiently clean a wide variety of garments in water. Detergents and spot removers are made of ingredients that are safer for workers and the environment, yet are as safe and effective at removing soils, stains and odors as dry cleaning solvents.