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Most laundromats in the US are fully automated and coin-operated and generally unstaffed, with many operating 24 hours a day. [17] The invention of the coin-operated laundry machine is ascribed to Harry Greenwald of New York who created Greenwald Industries in 1957; the company marketed the devices through the 20th century.
The company designs, manufactures, and markets a line of commercial laundry equipment under various brands in over 100 countries. [4] Among the company’s products are washers, drying tumblers and ironers for the coin laundry, multi-housing laundries, institutional laundries and laundries for consumer residences.
1920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine. The Thor washing machine was the first electric clothes washer sold commercially in the United States. Produced by the Chicago-based Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company, the 1907 Thor is believed to be the first electrically powered washer ever manufactured, crediting Hurley as the inventor of the first automatic washing machine.
Many of the early automatic machines had coin-in-the-slot facilities and were installed in the basement laundry rooms of apartment houses. Automatic washing machine fittings. On the left is a ball valve from the water supply and a water inlet hose. On the right is a drainage pipe made of PVC pipes, to which a drain hose is connected.
Cintas delivery truck in Ann Arbor, Michigan Cintas delivery truck in Markham, ON. Cintas Corporation (/ ˈ s ɪ n t ɑː z /) is an American corporation headquartered in Mason, Ohio which provides a range of products and services to businesses including uniforms, mats, mops, cleaning and restroom supplies, first aid and safety products, fire extinguishers and testing, and safety courses. [6]
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There have been several attempts to produce commercial clothes folding machines for home use. FoldiMate was an American company founded in 2010, which presented a prototype of a clothes folding machine first in 2016, [1] then at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2017, [2] and an updated prototype at CES in 2018. [3]
Henkel Corporation, doing business as Henkel North American Consumer Goods and formerly The Dial Corporation, is an American company based in Stamford, Connecticut. [2] [3] [4] It is a manufacturer of personal care and household cleaning products and is a subsidiary of multinational company Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Henkel Consumer Goods Inc.).