Automatic laundry system
AssigneePellerin Milnor Corporation (Entire)
InventorNorvin L. Pellerin
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Abstract
A wholly automatic commercial laundry in which soiled laundry is automatically routed to available washing machines, is automatically unloaded, conveyed, and loaded into one of several dryers which is available, or is conveyed directly to a finishing station when drying is not required. A unique programmable selector permits selecting any of several preprogrammed washingcycles, and modifying these cycles in accordance with the laundry to be washed. The selector also provides the necessary information for routing of the batches of laundry from the washing machines to the dryers, for selecting one of several drying cycles, and for routing the laundry to a desired finishing station.
Claims11
In an automatic laundry processing system for performing predetermined operations sequentially upon individual laundry work loads, the combination comprising:
- a plurality of work load processing stations;
- conveyor means comprising a plurality of conveyor units for receiving individual laundry work loads from certain ones of said processing stations and depositing said individual laundry work loads at other one of said stations:
- memory means comprising a plurality of memory units with one of said memory units being associated with each one of said processing stations and one of said memory units being associated with each of said conveyor units for storing individual laundry work load identification signals, said individual laundry work load identification signals being uniquely associated with individual laundry work loads;
- transfer means for transferring individual laundry work load identification signals between said memory units in accordance with said associated individual laundry work loads being moved between said conveyor units and said processing stations;
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- control means comprising a plurality of control units associated with each of said processing stations for controlling the processing of said individual laundry work loads in response to said individual laundry work load identification signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.