INTERIOR LIGHTING 10-117

CLEANING AND PRESSING

The operations in dry-cleaning plants are functionally divided as follows
:
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7.
S.
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11.
Laundry or wet cleaning.
Repair and alteration.
Machine finishing.
Hand finishing.
Final inspection.
Shipping.
1. Receiving.
2. Checking and sorting.
3. Dry cleaning.
a. Naptha-solvent process.
b. Synthetic-solvent process.
4. Steaming.
5. Examining and spotting.
Receiving. Cleaning and pressing establishments receive soiled items
from their pick-up trucks at a receiving platform at which garments are
transferred from motor truck to hand truck. The garments are then
wheeled to the checking and sorting tables. The recommended minimum
illumination level for the receiving platform and passage is 10 footcandles.
Checking and sorting. For special instructions a checker reads a driver's
ticket written in pencil attached to incoming garments and pins tags
numbered in indelible ink to each garment for matching with the original
ticket after the completed operation. Pockets are searched for matches
or articles of value and finally the sorter divides the garments into silks
and woolens, dark and light colored, or other classifications necessitated
by the cleaning operation. The penciled notations are difficult to read.
Contrast, as well as the handwriting, often is poor. The minimum recom-
mended illumination level is 20 footcandles.
Dry cleaning by the naphtha-solvent process. The solvent used in this
process is inflammable and under certain conditions explosive. For this
reason the cleaning operation is carried on in a separate building or in a
section of the plant divided off by a firewall. Explosion-proof lighting
equipment is mandatory.
No attempt is made in the washing and drying room to determine whether
the cleaning has removed all spots and no other difficult seeing problems
are involved. A
average
10 footcandles is recommended.
The explosion-proof fixtures
must be located so the washer,
extractor, and drying-tumbler
interiors are well illuminated
when the covers are thrown
back. (See Fig. 10-86.) In
addition, distribution must be
such as to light properly pres-
sure and flow gauges on the
filters and in the piping.
The time of washing is
FIG 10
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g6 Eleyation of
instalIation
largely determined by the
for the naphtha-solvent process of dry cleaning.
minimum use iso-watt explosion

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, ii n PROOF FIXTURE WITH DOME
illumination level of reflector, spacing in
ROWS 7 TO 10 FEET
DIMENSION VARIES WITH
SIZE AND LOCATION OF
WASHER OPENING
FILTER GAUGE
MOUNT WHITE
> BACKGROUND
BEHIND GAUGE