US1844544A - Device for sorting laundry - Google Patents

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DEVICE FOR SORTING LAUNDRY Filed Feb. 19, 1950 INVENTOR ATTORNEY fa 19W Patented Feb. 9, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM E. DAVIS, OF GLENDALE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, ANGELO GREGG, AND ANTONIO MANGOGNA, ALL OF GLENDALE, NEW YORK DEVICE FOR SDRTING LAUNDRY Application filed February 19, 1930.

This invention relates to a device for sorting and identifying laundry.

Experience in the operation and managementof laundries has shown that it is necessary to have some simple but positive means oi. sorting and marking laundry so that the proper articles are returned to the proper parties. In most cases a bundle of laundry will contain many articles that can not be washed w together, such as colored pieces, shirts, silks,

etc. Man y times small pieces are lost or where the laundry is separated into several lots, a

whole part of the bundle will be lost. This results in dissatisfaction and consequent loss of trade.

'lheretore, the object of this invention is to yn'ovide a device for sorting and marking the laundry in such a way that no pieces at all will be lost.

t) Another object of the invention is to provide a device by which a large number oi bundles may be quickly and easily sorted without the employment of a large number of people to sort the laundry. 5 A further object of the invention is to provide a device that will be simple to use so that even unskilled workers, such as are usually employed in laundries, may sort the launi'lry without error and without having to be given a great deal of instruction.

iii further object of the invention is to provide a (levice by which the laundry may be quickly reassembled after ithas been washed and which will provide a positive check against any part of the bundle being left out and not returned to the customer.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device which will be inexpensive to manufacture and use and in which the possibility of breakage or the cost of replacement will be very small.

The invention consists of the construction and combination of parts, as herein illustrated, described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, is illustrated one form of embodiment of the invention, in which drawings similar reference characters designate corresponding parts, and in which:

Serial No. 429,532.

Figure l is a perspective view showing the device as used; and,

Figure 2 is a perspective View of the re taining bracket.

Referring to the drawings, framework upon which is disposed an A- shaped rack 4. The rack 4 is provided with handles 5 so that the rack may be lifted and removed from the framework 3. On each side of the rack 4 is disposed a row of projecting studs or fingers 6. Each of the fingers 6 is adapted to hold a bracket 7. The bracket 7 is made of a single piece of metal and comprises a rectangular back wall 8 adapted to lie against one taco oi the rack 4; a. bottom portion 9 at right angles to the back 8; and a reduced, upturned projecting finger 10, extending from the bottom 9.

Formed in the bottom 9 is a series of holes 11. Another hole 12 is formed in the back 8, near the top thereof, so that the bracket 7 may be hung on one of the projecting studs 6. On the back wall 8 of each bracket is stamped a number or other indentifying indicia. Each bracket 7 has a diiferent numher or indicia 13. isposed in the holes'll in the bottom 9 are safety pins 14- of varying sizes. Each of the pins 14 carry a number or other indicia 15. The pins are made in sets so that each set of pins 14 carry the same number 15 as that shown on the back wall 8. The pins 14 are used to close the mouths of nets 16 in which the laundry is placed to be washed. Since the pins 14 bear the same numher as the bracket 7 to which they belong, it is very easy to replace the pins 14, or the nets 16 to which they are attached, on the proper bracket 7.

The use of this device is as follows: When the bundles of laundry are brought in they each have a tag identifying the owner. The bundles are taken to a sorting table and each tag is given a number corresponding to the number of one of the brackets 7. Each bundle is then opened and sorted. In each bundle there are usually many articles which have to be washed separately. For example, colored pieces cannot be Washed with white pieces, socks, shirts and silks also have to be washed separately. As each bundle; is sepa- 3 designates a rated into its component parts each part is placed in a net 16. The net 16 is then closed by means of one of the pins 14. After each component part of the bundle has been placed in a net, the laundry is ready to be washed. The nets are then sent along to the washing machines and the next bundle is sorted.

When all of the brackets 7 on one face of. the rack 4 have been used, the rack 4 is lifted c by means of the handles 5 and turned around so as to present its other face to the sorting table. When all of the brackets on the opposite face of the rack A have been used the rack 1 is removed from the frame3 and a new rack 4 substituted. By this time the first nets have been washed so that the first rack 4 can be placed adjacent the assembling table in order that the bundles may be reassembled.

WVhen the nets 16 leave the sorting table they are placed in several machines, the white pieces in one machine, colored pieces in another, etc. along with similar nets containing similar pieces After the nets, and the laundry contained in them, have been washed, the nets are placed all together in an extractor and the water extracted. Thereafter, the nets are sent to the assembling table so that the bundles may be reassembled- By this time the nets are well mixed up.

The nets are then sorted according to the numbers on the pins 14L and are hung, by means of the pins 14, on the projecting finger 10 of the proper bracket 7. WVhen all of the nets have been collected and hung on the finger 10 of the proper bracket 7 the bundle or bag of wet wash is ready to be assembled.

If the. whole bundle of laundry is simply.

wet wash then the nets are emptied into the bag and the laundry is ready to' be returned to the customer. If, however, some part of the wash is to be ironed or otherwise treated, the net containing thisportion of the laundry is withheld and finished laten.

WVhen the nets are hung on the finger 10 there must be one net for each pin 14 that is not in the holes 11. If a pin 14 is missing their one net is missing and the laundry is not ready to be returned to the customer. In this way a positive check is secured against the loss of any part of a bundle of laundry. The use of the nets insures'againstthe loss. of anysmallpieces such as handkerchiefs or' napkins. Therefore, it will be seen that the foregoing method provides a check against the loss or confusion of laundry and at the same time allows the laundry to be handled expeditiously even if the help employed has no great amount of intelligence.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letter Patent'is:

1, A laundry sorting attachment comprising a perforated, numbered plate having an extension at an angle thereto, said extension being provided with a plurality of openings and a projection.

2. A laundry sortin attachment comprising a perforated, num be'red plate having an extension at an angle thereto, said extension being provided with a plurality of openings ture.

WILLIAM E. DAVIS.

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