Old Ironing Machine
Mar 20, 2023 20:03:44 #
Jack B
Loc: Mount Pleasant, SC
Another antique: This time an old ironing machine from the porch of my favorite BBQ restaurant. Comments are always welcome.
Mar 20, 2023 21:21:20 #
Beowulf
Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI
These were known as mangle irons. Locally, a now defunct handkerchief manufacturer used these extensively to prepare for packaging.
Mar 20, 2023 21:47:41 #
When I was growing up we had one. Mom used it on sheets, pillow cases etc. She called it a mangler. She ironed everything including underwear, socks and handkerchiefs.
Mar 20, 2023 23:32:27 #
tramsey wrote:
When I was growing up we had one. Mom used it on sheets, pillow cases etc. She called it a mangler. She ironed everything including underwear, socks and handkerchiefs.
My mom did the same - and had us little ones helping with it - I found out that you only iron your fingers once LOL
The hard part was getting the creases in dads military shirts correctly - if they weren't correct, we had to wet the shirts and run them through the drier to ensure there were no creases and do it over...
Mar 21, 2023 06:17:24 #
Jack B wrote:
Another antique: This time an old ironing machine from the porch of my favorite BBQ restaurant. Comments are always welcome.
Mar 21, 2023 06:23:27 #
Yup, I walked the same walk, ours was in the basement. Beat hand ironing for sure, just feed the item in as the barrel rotated and it pulled it in and it came out FLAT. Had to Watch where my hands wandered to.
Mar 21, 2023 14:05:30 #
Mar 21, 2023 14:24:43 #
lnl
Loc: SWFL
My mother-in-law had one too. I was always fascinated at how it came to be called a “mangle”. Doesn’t that mean it messes up the ironing?
Mar 21, 2023 14:26:24 #
Mar 21, 2023 16:43:10 #
DRam11
Loc: Polson, MT
lnl wrote:
My mother-in-law had one too. I was always fascinated at how it came to be called a “mangle”. Doesn’t that mean it messes up the ironing?
I was told the name came from mangled fingers. Another version was that the inventor / producer was named Mangle, and subsequent injuries /fought the term “mangled” to describe an injury into use.
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