1000 lb automatic unloading washer video

[sudsman]

250 lbs in each pocket.

 

[sudsman]

Machine is rated as 900

But most plants avg 1000 to make production quota. In this size machine a little over load makes no difference at all. These are widely used in Linen Supply plants. and cost from 450,000 to 600,000 depending on the amount of automation one wishes , From overhead automatic loading to conveyer unloading.

 

[mielabor]

Impressive, but some clean laundry is falling on the floor...

 

[favorit]

Kannegiesser batch washer with spin-a-rinse

Thanks Lee,
I always enjoy your posts about heavy duty commercial laundry machinery.

Also I have always been amazed by batch washers. This one (latest Kannegiesser, the Powertrans Jet - link) doesn't have rinse batches cause it rinses in the extractor like some twintubs do. So I guess it rinses as well as washer-extractors
Pity it's the italian site, otherwise these details aren't shown in other K sites

One question : what are advantages sideloader vs frontloader ?

http://www.kpitalia.it/lavanderia/lavaggio/l_lavacontinue.htm

 

[tomturbomatic]

The hospital's laundry had a two pocket machine, but the cylinders came up out of the machine to dump into the two halves of the extractor basket and there were two people present for the unloading to prevent clean laundry from falling onto the floor. Then the halves were rolled together and locked, lifted a bit to determine balance, then hoisted to the extractor.I think I remember the word "Cascade" in the washer's name, but it has been too many decades to be sure.

Why does this video of the washer unloading have as related videos babies pooping? I thought dumping was a term for the washer's drain valve opening. This unloading process is more like heaving your guts out, like what a sea cucumber does when attacked.

 

[sudsman]

What you described

Is American Cascade Dumper. a 450 lb washer that also dumped the load into the extractor can then was put together and hoisted into the extractor and the end of the cycle the hoist lifted the extractor cans out and the bottom of the cans opened and the load fell out into carts. Most had a automatic control on the right or the left side of the machine and would signal with a loud bell when supplies were to be added. They were made from 1955 to 1974 and were the flagship machines for American Laundry Machinery. There were 2 sizes made. ad 42x 53 300 lb and and a 42x 96 a 450 lb. Both were widely used in hotels and hospitals

 

[sudsman]

American Dumper Washer W/ auto control

in uniform supply plant.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thank you! That's it! Except that the hospital laundry had a lot of open space in front of the washer for the extractor basket. And those little trap doors on the front were where the supplies were added. Each time it started to tumble clockwise, a bit of water surged up maybe an inch on the curved doors so there was a bit of a mineral line along the bottom of them. It had to use a lot of water changes because it did no extracting. By the late 60s, the hospital, which opened around 1960, was starting to undergo a huge renovation and enlargement. The laundry was no longer considered to meet NSA (or some other organization's) standards for isolating clean and dirty laundry so the equipment was going to be replaced with washers that were loaded in the dirty linen room and unloaded in the clean finishing room. There were one or two end loading Milnor's, but I think they were reserved for nursery linens and uniforms, maybe. I never got to load them at the hospital. The laundry was not in operation on weekends, but one or two Summer weekends one of the laundrymen was in there as I was leaving on Sunday and I stopped to talk with him. He said he was there because the nursery was running low on linens so he was getting some washed (in the Milnor) to get a head start on processing it Monday morning.

Thanks for the memories.