anyone ever use a triple pocket washer?

[thedrycleaner]

hello washer friends, has anyone ever seen a triple or double pocket washer from the 50s? well I had the rather arduous task of using one everyday in the early days of my drycleaning career. it was a 100 pound cascadex washer that we had in the old plant. it had three pockets that you had to open and load the clothes in. it had an outside loading door and then in the basket was three doors that you opened one at a time after you got one at a time lined up with the loading door. you would have to inch the wash basket in line by using the inch and brake buttons which could be a challenge to get the inner doors lined up to unload them and if one got jammed open, well that could get messy,lol. thanks the drycleaner

 

[DADoES]

 
I've seen photos and videos of them.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Photos only. They were the solution to preventing sheets from balling up in a tumbler washer. The photo I saw was one on an ocean liner for laundering linens and it was a monster.

 

[launderess]

EDRO's DynaWash washer/extractors still have system where one has to "inch" cylinder to match door opening.



Milnor divided pocket washers/extractors (and maybe some others) have a system of "auto-spot" where machine will align cylinder with door openings on its own.







To some extent things do come out of divided pocket washers somewhat tangled (see vids above). There is also considerable debate about wash quality from divided pocket washers versus open.

Open pocket washer/extractor are just like H-axis washers we know from home or laundromat use. Things tumble about in water that is within same tubs (inner and outer).

Divided pocket washers OTOH have a pool of water at bottom and things tumble in and out of that solution.

EDRO DynaWash machines have pretty much been the standard for navy/military/ship use and elsewhere for decades. Though some feel they are rather rough on textiles.

https://laundryledger.com/edro-dynawash-three-pocket-end-loader-washer-extractors/

Ellis still makes washer/extractor close to what resembles Cascadex units of old.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy2ej0jC6aE

For past decade or so and is a trend likely to continue laundries that can justify processing pound capacity have moved away from open pocket or even divided pocket washer/extractor to tunnel washers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsE3tPamZPY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5rcJTKM-mw

[this post was last edited: 12/3/2022-17:44]

 

[launderess]

American Laundry Machinery Super Mammoth Cascade Washer ca.1923

 

[aussie-plugs]

Fascinating

Thanks for all the information and video links

 

[launderess]

Mike Rowe has, and he won't be doing so again either

Braun triple pocket washer.

 

[launderess]

There is a common misconception that divided pocket washers allow for separation of different clients goods. This just isn't true nor easily possible.

It would take visibly numbering each pocket, recording what load went into each and so forth for that to remotely happen. Which it doesn't....

Open or divided pocket items are marked with some sort of identification symbol, code or name of owner. When things are completed someone has to match marks or tags and assemble order together for bagging/packaging together.

Only other way round is to put things into nets (see video). In that case the net has a tag or number affixed which identifies who owns contents. Those who served in military in past will recall metal tag with number that was given when laundry was taken in. Corresponding number would be tagged onto net bag (usually with large metal safety pin), so there you are.



Other way round is a laundry will process only wash from certain customer at one time. You sometimes see this with tunnel washers. Everything from say St. Vincent's hospital is processed, then onto Mount Sinai, then Beth Israel hospital...

Growth of small load commercial washers such as 20 pounds to under 100 pounds allowed for laundromats to take on service washes, which is the most inefficient way of commercial laundry.

Instead of say one or more washer/extractors and dryers that can process daily average pounds of wash you have many smaller machines. Each customer's load goes into said machines separately.