Method and system for handling and transporting laundry in bags

A system for handling and transporting dirty laundry in one or more bags before wash and one or more bags that have been emptied of dirty laundry, the system comprising:

• a transport system for handling and transporting a first bag and a second bag;
• a first laundry handling and filling station configured to receive, at a first end, dirty unsorted laundry arriving from a container of dirty unsorted laundry, which first laundry handling station is configured to either fill the dirty unsorted laundry of the container into the first bag, which is empty, by hand or to transport the dirty unsorted laundry to a second end of the first laundry handling and filling station where the unsorted dirty laundry is filled into the first bag, which is empty, that has been transported by the transport system to the second end of the first laundry handling and filling station;
• a second laundry handling and buffering station arranged downstream of the first laundry handling and filling station which second laundry handling and buffering station is configured to receive the first bag at a first end with dirty unsorted laundry arriving from the first laundry handling and filling station to provide intermediate storage for the first bag with dirty unsorted laundry together with a second bag containing dirty sorted laundry that was transported by the transport system from a third laundry handling and sorting station configured to sort the dirty unsorted laundry;
• the third laundry handling and sorting station arranged downstream of the second laundry handling and buffering station, which third laundry handling and sorting station is configured to receive, at a first end, the dirty unsorted laundry transported from a second end of the second laundry handling and buffering station and emptied into the first end of the third laundry handling and sorting station from the first bag and to sort and to, at a second end, fill the first bag, which is empty, that has been transported by the transport system to and received at the second end of the third laundry handling and sorting station forming the second bag to be filled with dirty sorted laundry;
• a one fourth laundry handling station arranged downstream of the third laundry handling and sorting station, which fourth laundry handling station is configured to, at a first end, receive a third bag that is empty arriving from the third laundry handling and sorting station and to further transport the third bag that is empty from the fourth laundry handling station to the first laundry handling and filling station and the third laundry handling and sorting station for re-use in the first laundry handling and filling station and the third laundry handling and sorting station;
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• a one fifth laundry handling and washing station arranged downstream of the second laundry handling and buffering station, which fifth laundry handling and washing station is configured to receive, at a first end, the second bag with dirty sorted laundry arriving from the second end of the second laundry handling and buffering station and to move the dirty sorted laundry from the first end of the fifth laundry handling and washing station through the fifth laundry handling and washing station while washing the dirty sorted laundry to a second end of the fifth laundry handling and washing station where the washing is finished and the sorted and now clean laundry exits.