Laundry management : a handbook for use in private and public laundries including descriptive accounts of modern machinery and appliances for laundry work.

Date:
1902
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Laundry management : a handbook for use in private and public laundries including descriptive accounts of modern machinery and appliances for laundry work. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    separate waste valve and a set of supply pipes; all four being encased in a wooden box with a gun-metal top. In the middle of the four coppers is placed a central stand pipe, with steam, hot and cold water main pipes, and cocks over each copper. These coppers may also be fitted in a row, to place them against a wall; the supply pipe running at the back (Fig. 27). They may be used as soaking tanks, hand-washing troughs, and coppers for boiling linen. There is a very simple form of hand-washing trough much in favour. It consists of a shallow metal pan, mounted on iron standards. There is a waste pipe at the bottom, with a cock; two or three overflow holes a few inches from the top, and two service pipes and cocks, one for hot and the other for cold water. These hand-washing troughs are generally erected in pairs, but in large establishments as many as eighteen or twenty-four are used. They should be placed against a wall, and the main service hot and cold water pipes made to run the whole length, above or beneath. Soap and Soda Dissolvers. — When dealing with the washing of linen, both in the first and second parts of this book, we have spoken of washing fluids and alkaline lyes. In practice it is found advisable not to place soap or soda directly into washing troughs, coppers, or machines. These detergent agents should first be thoroughly dissolved in cold or warm water, and only then put in the coppers and machines. Fig. 26.—Steam .Boiling Coppers. Nest of four. Fig. 27.—Steam Boiling Coppers. Fitted in row.