JP3332957B2 - Linen management method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is to stock new linens such as sheets, towels and tablecloths and used linens at a convenient location in a multi-story hotel or hospital, etc., and to exchange linens with good workability. In the linen service system made possible, in particular, in each of the basket for linen collection to collect used linen and the basket for linen replenishment to replenish new linen, a detection device for detecting the amount of linen stock is provided, Using this detection device, the linen stock amount of each basket is grasped in the control room, and linen stock management is performed by one.
This is a linen management method performed in several places.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, linen services for hotels and hospitals have been provided with a linen room for storing linens such as sheets, towels, and tablecloths on each floor, and new linens are taken out of the linen room as needed. Used linen is temporarily stored in the linen room in exchange for used ones. A linen service person brings new linen into the linen room on each floor and collects used linen at the same time. As another method, a large linen room is provided only on the basement floor, and the required amount of linen is transported for each floor using an elevator for passengers or cargo, and simultaneously replaced with used linen. The elevator collects it in the underground linen room.

[0003]

As in the prior art, in a system in which linen rooms are provided on each floor to deliver new linens and used linens are temporarily stored in the linen rooms on each floor, linen inventory management is performed. Must be provided for each floor, which not only complicates the management, but also causes inconvenience in the plan of the building due to the provision of many linen rooms. In a method in which a large linen room is provided only on the basement floor, and the required amount of linen is transported for each floor using an elevator for customers, the transport and collection work must be repeatedly performed for each floor, which requires time. In addition, the elevator is combined with the customer and the linen transport, which gives the customer discomfort. Therefore, the present invention saves labor on linen services,
Another object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily manage linen stock at one place, and to replace linens in a sanitary manner without giving a customer discomfort.

[0004]

A linen management method according to the present invention is a linen service for replenishing new linens such as sheets, towels, tablecloths and the like and collecting used linens at a hotel or hospital on a multi-story floor. A linen management method for performing linen inventory management in one place, comprising: a linen replenishment basket for accommodating new linens replenished in a management room for linen inventory management; The collected baskets for linen collection were placed on each floor of the multi-story floor, and at each floor, new linens contained in the baskets for linen replenishment were replaced with used linens and replaced. The used linen is stored in the basket for collecting linen, and a signal from a detection device for detecting a stock amount of the stored linen provided in each basket is received by a computer in the management room. The computer monitors the linen stock state of each of the baskets, and drives a driving device that drives the baskets vertically in a gondola manner based on a command from the computer, so that the full linen collection basket is recovered. And / or passing a linen replenishment basket that requires linen replenishment through the management room, collecting used linen from the linen collection basket in the management room, and reusing the linen replenishment basket with the linen replenishment basket. It is characterized in that the required number of new linens is replenished and the linen inventory is managed in one place.

[0005]

According to the linen management method of the present invention, two baskets are arranged on each floor of a multi-story building, one of which is stocked with new linen, and the other which collects used linen, so that the linen at each floor is collected. Exchange can be performed with good workability. In the present invention, since each basket is provided with a detection device for detecting the amount of linen stock, a signal from the detection device is received by a computer in one management room provided in the building, so that each floor is provided with a signal. The amount of linen stock in each basket can be grasped, and the linen stock can be managed in accordance with the stock amount in the single management room. After completion of the linen replenishment and collection, the baskets are passed to the control room to replenish the required amount of new linen in the baskets on each floor, and also to collect used linen from used linen baskets, Can be performed in one management room.

[0006]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. The linen service system of the present invention is applied to a multi-story hotel or hospital, and in a vertical space A provided in a multi-story building B, baskets 1a to 1f and 2a to 2f are vertically arranged in two rows. Two baskets are arranged on each floor, one of which is formed as a stock for new linen stock and a basket for refilling linen, and the other is a basket for linen collection used for temporary storage of used linen. Is formed. In this embodiment, the place where two baskets are arranged side by side on each floor is
As shown in FIG. 2, it is constructed in a linen room 3 and is divided into a guest room 4 and a corridor portion 5. The vertical baskets 1a to 1
f and 2a to 2f are connected between the upper and lower sides.
The uppermost part and the lowermost part of the baskets in the row are connected to each other, and the direction changing device 6 can change the direction of each car to the opposite row. Further, a driving device 7 for vertically moving the car is provided at the lowermost portion, and all the cars can be rotated in a gondola manner along the vertical rows by operating the driving device 7.

A control room 8 for loading new linens into each car or collecting used linen is provided on a floor convenient for the work, for example, the first basement floor. Load new linen into basket at location,
Alternatively, it is possible to remove used linen from the basket. In addition, a detection device 9 for detecting the amount of linen stock stored in each car is provided, and a signal from the detection device 9 is input to the computer 10 in the management room 8 so that the stock state of each car can be grasped. I have. The computer 10 can control the driving device 7 and moves a basket that requires new linen or a basket that is full of used linen to the management room 8 based on a signal from the detection device 9. It is made to be made. In addition, it is possible to automatically operate the driving device 7 based on the signal of the detection device 9 provided for each car, and to automatically move the car which requires the loading and unloading of the linen to the management room 8,
Alternatively, each basket can be sequentially moved to the management room 8 to load and unload linens.

In a hotel or a hospital equipped with the above-mentioned linen service system, a new linen is stocked in a basket on each floor, and a basket for storing used linen is provided. He climbs up to the floor without having anything and takes the new linen stored in the basket into the room and replaces it with used linen, and temporarily stores the used linen in the used linen basket on that floor. And new linens were brought into each room one after another,
Replace linen as before. After the replacement of the linens on all floors is completed, the driving device 7 is operated to rotate each car along two rows in the vertical direction, and a new car necessary for the car moved to the control room 8 on the lowest floor is operated. Stock the linen and move the baskets one after another to replenish each basket with new linen sequentially. In addition, the operation of the driving device 7 causes the basket for used linen to be moved to the management room 8, and the used linen is collected from the basket and moved first in an empty state, and then moved to the next used linen. When the used linen is similarly collected from the basket and all the used linen baskets are emptied and moved to a predetermined floor, the linen management in the management room 8 is completed.

[0009]

According to the linen service system of the present invention,
Since two baskets are arranged on each floor and one of them stores new linen and the other can store used linen, labor for replacing linens on each floor can be saved.
In addition, since the two cages arranged on each floor can be turned up and down in a gondola style, each cage can be moved sequentially to the lowermost control room to replenish new linen and used linen can be collected. Can be performed in one place, and the work of stocking and collecting linen is simplified. Further, since the linen is not transported using the customer elevator unlike the related art, there is no discomfort to the customer.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of a gondola-type rotating basket schematically showing a linen service system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial plan view of a certain floor of a hotel provided with a linen service system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a basket 2a basket 6 direction change device 7 drive device 8 management room

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. In a linen service for replenishing new linens such as sheets, towels, tablecloths, etc. and collecting used linens at a multi-story hotel or hospital, etc., linen inventory is managed in one place. A linen management method, comprising: a linen replenishment basket that contains new linens replenished in a management room that manages linen inventory; and a linen collection basket in which used linen is collected in the management room. Each of the multi-story floors is arranged on each floor, and in each of the floors, new linens stored in the linen replenishment basket are replaced with used linens, and the replaced use is performed.
The finished linen is stored in the linen collection basket, and a signal from a detection device for detecting the stock amount of the stored linen provided in each basket is received by a computer in the management room, and the linen of each cage is received. The stock status is grasped by the computer, and based on a command from the computer, a driving device for driving the basket up and down in a gondola manner is driven to replenish a full basket for collecting linen and / or refilling the linen. The required linen replenishment basket is passed through the management room, the used room is collected from the linen collection basket in the management room, and the required number of new linens is replenished in the linen replenishment basket. Te, linen management method and performing linen inventory management of the in one place.