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Thread Number: 37707
Renton welcomes mother of all Washing Machines |
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| Post# 560947 12/3/2011 at 12:05 (4,525 days old) by Northwesty (Renton, WA) | ||
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Here is an interesting story from the local newspaper CLICK HERE TO GO TO Northwesty's LINK | ||
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| Post# 560955 , Reply# 1 12/3/2011 at 12:28 (4,525 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
What a surprise this is! 50, 000 pounds in weight, 79 feet in length, a million dollars in price, and shoots out 250 pounds of laundry every 2 &1/2 minutes.
How can that--the 250 in 2&1/2 minutes --be possible? Who either knows or can figure out how this behemoth works? All I can come up with is that after it's loaded with many thousands of pounds of laundry, and time has passed, then the loads come out that fast.
Or is this an assembly line of wash/rinse/spin operations and the 250 pound load passes through 79 feet of washing magic in 2 minutes and 33 seconds?
Someone will have the answer.
Talk about a forbidden cycle. YIKES!
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Post# 560987 , Reply# 3 12/3/2011 at 14:03 (4,525 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Archimedes Screw
Tunnel washers use archimedes screw principle to whiz through laundry.
Soiled items enter the machine in one direction whilst fresh water comes through the other. Thus as the laundry goes though various compartments of the unit it moves from dirty water to fresh. Meanwhile the clean water coming from the other direction goes from that state to finally ending up as dirty when it is used as a wash bath. All and all a very efficent method of doing major amounts of laundry quickly. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Launderess's LINK | ||
| Post# 560990 , Reply# 4 12/3/2011 at 14:06 (4,525 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
 The machine works as a modified front loader. The cylinders are all connected and they rock back and forth as one. When it is time to move the load into the next compartment, the cylinders do a complete revolution. When the load is burped out of the other end, it usually slides directly into a hydralic press or a centrifugal extractor. From there the load is turned out onto a conveyor that shuttles them to the dryers.
If you measure the time the first load goes in until the last load comes out and divide by the number of pounds cleaned, you get how many pounds are cleaned each minute. | ||
| Post# 561038 , Reply# 5 12/3/2011 at 20:35 (4,524 days old) by stainfighter (Columbia, SC) | ||
GIRBAU Industrial Batch System... | ||
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Post# 561092 , Reply# 7 12/4/2011 at 03:12 (4,524 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Tunnell Washers | ||
| Post# 561098 , Reply# 8 12/4/2011 at 07:15 (4,524 days old) by commercial () | ||
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Kannegiesser PowerSpin There is a spin for tunnel Washer from Kannegiesser. Spins up to 800G CLICK HERE TO GO TO commercial's LINK 
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| Post# 561283 , Reply# 11 12/5/2011 at 11:01 (4,523 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Move over: wringers, and spinners.....LOOK OUT...... Here comes the presser. WOW!!! The water is flattened out. I'm amazed.
That reverse scooping to shift the load reminds me of something right out of "War of the Worlds." In spinning washers, the clothes get pretty much glued together, especially in a unimatic, and because the pressing is so brief, I'm thinking this method maybe no more worse for wear on the fabrics.
Got a kick out of the drain in Mike's vid, a simple brass elbow among all that high technology. Who woulda thunk?
When I was a kid, the only laundry book at the local library was an industrial laundry tome showing pics of how each machine drained into the next, so there was a constant recycling of water of from very used to sparking fresh, a lot like what's going on here. In that book they called the water "washing liquors," a term which has stayed with me ever since.
This is amazing, fascinating stuff--suds-savers forever! Thank you all so much for the industrial tutorial. | ||
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Post# 561327 , Reply# 12 12/5/2011 at 16:22 (4,522 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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When You Get Down To It | ||
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Post# 561457 , Reply# 15 12/6/2011 at 03:24 (4,522 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Tunnel Washer Jams | ||
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