[Bob Dobson]

I now have the patent. Hugh Oxenham was a London-based carpenter and mangle-maker.He described his invention as 'a mangle of entirely new construction made with sliding collars, wood or metal springs,rollers cogged with iron or pinning wheels, to answer all the purposes of mangles without the encumbrance of weight and will stand in a third part of the room of common mangles.' It appears that this was a wooden-framed, four-legged mangle, cranked by a handle and much smaller than those already in use.

This was a century before Tasker's mangle, which was made of cast iron, so that may have been how, if at all, Tasker's mangle differed from others.