Michigan Manufacturer & Financial Record Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...interesting to, or easily remembered by, the eventual buyers in foreign countries, and as a large part of the regular export staples are imported for sale to the untutored masses, who buy largely by trademark, it is advisable to have a mark that will be easily remembered and one that appeals to the ideas of the ultimate consumer. Once a mark has become popular it is almost impossible for any other mark to oust it. Many well known trademarks in the far East are today worth fortunes. THE MACHINERY OF THE LAUNDRY. The disinfector is a most useful and necessary acquisition to the large power laundry. The germ destroying factor, which is the essential feature of the disinfector, is the heat of high pressure steam, the steam being supplied from a special type of vertical boiler. The machines which rank next in importance to the disinfector, says Cassier's, are the rotary washing machines. These are beautifully constructed, externally of steel plate and internally of polished copper. The rotary washer consists of a strong steam tight casing built of riveted boiler plate and sufficiently strengthened to enable it to withstand a pressure of steam up to fifty pounds per square inch. The internal cage in which the clothes are placed is made of copper rods, well cleaned and polished, having their ends attached to 'carrying plates," these plates being attached to journals through which the cage is driven. The cage is also provided with "obstruction ribs" to prevent the "roping" (or clinging together) of the article being washed. Water and high pressure steam are admitted to the casing, the casing also being provided with an easily closing steam tight door. The rotary washers are provided with automatic reversing gear for the purpose of allowing ...