LAUNDRY MARVELS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19846, 20 July 1926, Page 7

LAUNDRY MARVELS.

NO BROKEN BUTTONS. THE USE OF MACHINERY. > The old-fashioned washerwoman who bent and toiled for hours over pails of soap-sucL would have opened her eyes wide with wonder if she could have walked into the Agricultural Hall, in London, where the Laundry and Allied Trades’ Exhibition was opened recently. Large machines that will wash and dry clothes at a faster rate, with a minimum amount of labour, are the inventions on which modern laundrymen are concentrating. One mammoth washer shown can hold 650 pounds of clothes, or between three and four hundred sheets, and another one can wash two thousand collars with a few mechanical revolutions. No man or woman can blame the up-to-date laundry if buttons come off and clothes are torn. Rollers are so made and protected that it is guaranteed that if a row of glass buttons are passed through the drying-machine they will not break. One inventor claims that he has produced the ideal drying-machine, because it can control time and temperature. In this machine a bell has been installed, which rings when the clothes have been dried for a certaln*time and are at a certain heat. The wa-shing of collars is a complicated business. Aftoi the collar has been washed in an immense churn it is shot into a basket, whence it is taken to an ironing machine, passed rapidly through the roller.-, and come- out dry. but flat—so flat, indeed, that it i= not oasv to believe it will ever be curled again. A small machine with wheels and twisted metal, with an auto matic damper, brings it speedily into shape A single shirt has to Vic passed through a series of machines before if i- correetlv ironed. Cuff.-, collars, front-, and backs all fit into special machines and come out perfect and crca-ele-s.