Spraying apparatus for laundry mangles

An apparatus for applying a liquid lubricating agent onto a machine for ironing and drying laundry thereby to decrease friction between said machine and said laundry when said laundry passes through said machine, comprising

• (A) an atomizer for atomizing a liquid lubricating agent by means of a gaseous medium under pressure,
• (B) at least one conduit having an apex and connected with said atomizer for conducting atomized lubricating agent mist away from said atomizer (A),
• (C) at least one pipe connected with said conduit (B), said pipe being provided with openings and upwardly inclinded downstream of said conduit (B), the downstream end of the upwardly inclined pipe being vertically lower than the apex, said pipe extending substantially over the entire width of said machine for conducting atomized lubricating agent through said openings to spread onto said machine, said openings in the pipe being situated above a lowest point of an internal cross-section of the pipe to collect condensed lubricating agent along said lowest point thereof, said lowest point of the internal cross-section of the pipe forming a channel for directing condensed lubricating agent back down said inclined pipe,
• (D) at least one supply vessel containing liquid lubricating agent,
• (E) a conduit connecting said supply vessel (D) with said atomizer (A) for conducting liquid lubricating agent to said atomizer (A), and
• (F) a conduit connecting said supply vessel (D) with said conduit (B) at a point between the apex of said conduit (B) and said pipe (C).