Abstract: Providing a boiler in the interior of the mangle body, for heating up a gas in particular by an infrared radiant heater, which heats up a heat transfer medium in the cavity of a double-walled shell of the mangle body. The pressing surface of the mangle body can be heated up effectively and in a targeted manner by this heat transfer medium in the cavity of the double-walled shell of the mangle. Belt mangles are known, in the case of which a circumferentially driven mangling belt runs along the outside of the stationary mangle body, which mangling belt transports the laundry items to be mangled on the smooth pressing surface of the mangle body by entrainment. The heating of the pressing surface has been shown to be ineffective in the case of these known belt mangles.

Abstract: An apparatus for ironing laundry comprising at least one semi-circular open dished bed (1), provided with a double wall with feed (5) and outlet (6) opening for passage of a heating medium, such as steam, and a roll (2) rotatably driven in each dished bed (1), wherein the outlet opening (6) of a dished bed (1) is placed in direct connection to the feed opening (5) of the following dished bed (1). The apparatus requires a high flowspeed of heating medium thereby preventing eventual condensation of the heat medium in the flow ducts in the dished bed wall, and also preventing an uneven temperature distribution in the inner wall of the dished bed.

Abstract: Used hot air exhausted from perforated mangle drums 12-14 and/or steam condensate from curved guide troughs 15-17 cooperating with the drums is passed through the interior of a hollow, unperforated predryer cylinder 18. A pair of curved transport belts 40, 41 surround the bottom half of the cylinder and are driven at the same peripheral speed thereof to press laundry articles against the heated cylinder and to reverse their direction. Heating manifolds 46, 47 are mounted inside the transport belt runs.