Laundry management : a handbook for use in private and public laundries including descriptive accounts of modern machinery and appliances for laundry work.

Date:
1902
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Laundry management : a handbook for use in private and public laundries including descriptive accounts of modern machinery and appliances for laundry work. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    machines and given a thorough washing after having undergone the beating operations. When this latter course is adopted, the drugget will have to be very carefully dried, as all moisture should be extracted without straining the texture or subjecting the drugget to great heat. Motive Power.—The carpet-beater may be driven by the same engine as that used for the laundry machinery, but as a rule it is found more convenient to have a separate small one- horse-power engine (steam or gas) for the carpet-beater and its fan.