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Ironer

This, along with some heavy duty washers and dryers made up the laundry area for the hospital.
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Damn...I keep going back to this picture because it just unnerves me (must be too many sci-fi flicks)

I can see this as a mass murdere comes up behind someone, grabs 'em and starting up this machine large evil foul crunching sounds..throws the victim in between the rollers....slowly from the feet up......

ACK!!!!!!
shadow
Mon 07-25-2005
I memory serves ne, this machine is where you would put a piece of wet laundry into - and when it rolled out the other end, it would not only be dry, but ironed too. the only problem was that you had to make sure it was totall straight when you put it in or you'd end up with a creased mess...
silkster40z
Mon 08-15-2005
what a vivid imagination!
lewis
Wed 09-21-2005
These things are known for crushing and ripping off limbs. They are extremely powerful and I have been both fascinated and terrified of them since I read Stephen King's "The Mangler" when I was youth.
Twisted Mind
Tue 01-10-2006
We have some more modern versions of a mangler in our basement ( I live in a thirteen-storied high building with 8 flats on each level) and I have actually never seen anyone use them.... And I've lived here for 24 years now...

My mum taught me how to use them when I was very young so to keep my fingers still attached and all, but still to this day I get an eerie feeling from just walking past the rooms containing the machines.

=) Often feel quite silly for it. After all - they're used for laundry....... hehe

That thing looks *evil*, haha.
Vilia
Sun 01-15-2006
wonder if it still works?
none
Tue 01-24-2006
Sure Redz, just take your ticket, you can wait in the outtermost wing. They'll like you there =)
Poisonousxbeauty
Mon 01-30-2006
are you sure you put wet sheets into this machine? Wouldn't you just wash and dry and then this machine ironed them?
rockoman
Tue 04-25-2006
The Mangler...
Smurfy
Sun 05-21-2006
it looks like the top of an aircraft carrier!
zipper
Thu 06-08-2006
When I worked at a resort, we actually used Mangle brand ironers. Didn't look quite like this, but the same premise. And yes, you put the laundry in wet and it comes out dry. If it's NOT dry, you slow the machine down until it is.
Hats
Fri 07-14-2006
Almost all British mental hospitals had on-site laundries, urbex has a few good pictures of old equipment like this.
Richard Davies
Tue 04-17-2007
my company manufacturers parts for these machines
none
Thu 05-10-2007
Amazing, ironing sheets....
AvalonSeeker
Tue 02-05-2008
Employee injury nightmare!
Amazed
Sat 02-23-2008
as a few other people mentioned, all I can think of seeing pictures of this thing is The Mangler.
Splash
Sun 12-13-2009
Yup---see my comment on the pervious pic...

This is similar to the one I worked on!]

*Shudders* I used to HATE being on the Mangler...I would rather pull the dirty linen as it came in than work this machine. :(
MamaToFiveInPA
Mon 12-20-2010
that is a weird ironer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
smily
Thu 09-15-2011

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