subject: Machines For Washing Clothes [print this page] A washing machine whoch is used much more frequently than a home washing machine and mainly for commercial purposes can be called a commercial washing machine. When it comes to commercial washers, durability and functionality is more important than style and most makers need to keep this thing in mind. Most such machines are voluminous and pretty heavy. Most commercial washers are bulky and heavy, and have a sharp-edged square appearance, often with more expensive stainless steel construction to minimize corrosion in a constantly moist environment. Often commercial washers are installed in long rows with a wide access passageway behind all the machines to allow maintenance without moving the heavy machines.
Understanding Industrial Washers
The truth is that commercial washers for internal business operations (still often referred to as "washer/extractor" machines) may include features absent from domestic machines. Many commercial washers offer an option for automatic injection of five or more different chemical types, so that the operator does not have to deal with constantly measuring out soap products and fabric softeners for each load by hand. Instead, a precise metering system draws the detergents and wash additives directly from large liquid-chemical storage barrels and injects them as needed into the various wash and rinse cycles. Some computer-controlled commercial washers offer the operator complete control over the various wash and rinse cycles, allowing the operator to program custom washing cycles.
Most large-scale industrial washers can be classified as horizontal-axis machines although this doesnt mean that they cant have front-, side-, or top-load doors. A heavy-duty industrial washers can easily manage a washload of up to 800 pounds (360 kg) of textiles at once, and can be used for extremely machine-abusive washing tasks such as stone washing or fabric bleaching and dyeing. Their motor needs to be really sturdy for this.
An industrial washer can be mounted on heavy-duty shock absorbers and attached to a concrete floor, so that it can extract water from even the most severely out-of-balance and heavy wash loads. There is some really intricate engineering behind these monsters of washers. Noise and vibration is not as unacceptable as in a domestic machine and the operators are trained to deal with them. It may be also mounted on hydraulic cylinders, permitting the entire washer to be lifted and tilted so that fabrics can be automatically dumped from the wash drum onto a conveyor belt once the cycle is complete. Commercial laundries by miele have always ruled the roost when it comes to industrial washing. See http://www.jtmservice.co.uk/commercial-washing-machines/ for details.
