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A combo washer dryer (also known more simply as a washer-dryer in the UK) is a combination in a single cabinet of a washing machine and a clothes dryer. It should not be confused with a "stackable" combination of a separate washing machine and a separate clothes dryer. The main advantage of washer dryer combination units is their compactness.
The Speed Queen brand was created in 1928 with the introduction of stainless steel wash tubs in 1939 [10] and automatic washers and dryers in 1952. [11] Eventually Barlow & Seelig was renamed Speed Queen Company, and was later purchased by McGraw-Edison. In 1979, McGraw-Edison sold its appliance division to Raytheon Company.
Barlow & Seelig washing machine, 1908. The company was founded in 1908 by Joe Barlow and John Seelig as Barlow & Seelig Manufacturing. They got their start by taking existing machine designs and improving them. [citation needed] In 1922, Speed Queen was the first company to introduce washers with nickel-copper tubs. The brand name "Speed Queen ...
Higher spin speeds, along with larger tub diameters, remove more water, leading to faster drying. On the other hand, the need for ironing can be reduced by not using the spin cycle in the washing machine. If a heated clothes dryer is used after the wash and spin, energy use is reduced if more water has been removed from clothes. However, faster ...
A laundry room or utility room is a room where clothes are washed, and sometimes also dried. In a modern home, laundry rooms are often equipped with an automatic washing machine and clothes dryer, and often a large basin, called a laundry tub, for hand-washing of delicate clothing articles such as sweaters, as well as an ironing board.
A tunnel washer, also called a continuous batch washer, is an industrial washing machine designed specifically to handle heavy loads of laundry. The screw is made of perforated metal, so items can progress through the washer in one direction, while water and washing chemicals move through in the opposite direction.
Laundry is hung to dry above an Italian street. A self-service laundry in Paris Laundry in the river in Abidjan, 2006. Laundry is the washing of clothing and other textiles, [1] and, more broadly, their drying and ironing as well.
A hand-cranked mangle appeared on top after 1843 when John E. Turnbull of Saint John, New Brunswick patented a "Clothes Washer With Wringer Rolls". [5] The first geared wringer mangle in the UK is thought to date to about 1850, when one was invented by Robert Tasker of Lancashire. [6] It was a smaller, upright version of the box mangle.