Control system for a laundry processing machine
AssigneePellerin Milnor Corporation
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 washing cycles, 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. This is a division of application Ser. No. 903,115, filed May 5, 1978 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,195,498 issued Apr. 1, 1980.
Claims8
The combination of a laundry processing machine having an electrical control system, which system comprises a plurality of circuits each of which, when closed, causes the operation of a particular component of the machine, said machine having a controller for controlling a cycle of the machine in accordance with a plurality of preset functions by opening and closing said circuits in a preset sequence,
- multi-position rotary selector means moveable to a plurality of positions for simultaneously modifying a plurality of said controller determined preset functions in any selected one of said positions, said selector means comprising:
- a plurality of aligned switch means,
- a programmable sheet moveable to a plurality of different positions with respect to said plurality of switch means for operating selected ones of said switch means in accordance with a pre-determined program formed on said sheet,
- means connecting said plurality of switch means to said plurality of circuits in said machine, and
- means for moving said sheet to a selected program position so that said plurality of preset functions of the controller are modified in response to setting said selector means to a selected position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.