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An American style clothes dryer with a rear control panel A European style clothes dryer with a front control panel. A clothes dryer (tumble dryer, drying machine, or simply dryer) is a powered household appliance that is used to remove moisture from a load of clothing, bedding and other textiles, usually after they are washed in the washing machine.
A circle in the square symbolizes a clothes dryer. One dot requires drying at reduced temperature and two dots for normal temperature. The crossed symbol means that the clothing does not tolerate machine drying. In the US and Japan, there are other icons for natural/line drying.
A Norrahammars Bruk, model 3005-2, mangle from 1934. A mangle [1] is a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and (in its home version) powered by a hand crank or by electricity.
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.
A schematic of a direct solar dryer. Direct solar dryers expose the substance to be dehydrated to direct sunlight.Historically, food and clothing was dried in the sun by using lines, or laying the items on rocks or on top of tents. [2]
Clothes dryer, also known as a tumble-dryer; Belt dryer; Desiccant, a substance that absorbs or adsorbs water; Grain dryer, for storage grain bins; Oil drying agent, an additive which accelerates the film formation of a drying oil
Rotary Dryers have many applications but are most commonly seen in the mineral industry for drying sand, stone, soil, and ore. [2] They are also used in the food industry for granular material such as grains, cereals, pulses, and coffee beans.
Modern hanging clothes horse with pulley system. An overhead clothes airer, also known variously as a Sheila Maid ,ceiling clothes airer, laundry airer, pulley airer, laundry rack, or laundry pulley, is a ceiling-mounted mechanism to dry clothes.