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A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, designed to permit the compact hanging of wet clothes so that their maximum area can be exposed for wind drying by rotation. They are considered one of Australia's most recognisable icons , and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s.
Longer washing lines often have props holding up the mid-section so the weight of the clothing does not pull the clothesline down to the ground. More elaborate rotary washing lines save space and are typically retractable and square or triangular in shape, with multiple lines being used (such as the Hills Hoist from Australia). Some can be ...
Vileda is a brand of mechanical and power cleaning products, owned by the Freudenberg Group. The name derives from the German wie leder, which means like leather. An early product was the Vileda Window Cloth, launched in 1948. Vileda GmbH was established in 1962. [1] Vileda is distributed across Europe, Oceana, Asia, South America, and Canada.
Patent Model - Clothes-Pounder, 1878, [3] Hagley Museum and Library Of Colvin's four laundry improvements, her first one was the most important. It was for an improvement upon washing-machines and consisted of a rotating hollow cylinder inside a boiler which could clean a variety of fabrics including carpets and laces without rubbing and damaging them.
Rotary clothes line: Hills Industries: Australian usage [126] Hoover: Vacuum cleaner: Hoover Company: Widely used as a noun and verb. [112] De facto loss of trademark in the UK. [127] Hula hoop: Toy hoop Wham-O [128] Indomie: Instant noodle: Indofood: Common in Indonesia and Nigeria as a genericized mark for any instant noodle. Jacuzzi: Hot tub ...
LG washing machine (c. 2010)A washing machine (laundry machine, clothes washer, washer, or simply wash) is a machine designed to launder clothing. The term is mostly applied to machines that use water.
Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours). Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it ...
A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion. [1] [2] It is often a part of a rotating wheel (e.g. an eccentric wheel) or shaft (e.g. a cylinder with an irregular shape) that strikes a lever at one or more points on its circular path.