BOTTLE STERILIZER

Bottle sterilizers can provide an extra degree of sterilization for your baby’s bottles beyond what you
can get with soap and hot water. Weekly bottle sterilization is recommended for babies under the age of
1.[1] Electric sterilizers are efficient, easy to use, and often perform other functions, like drying,
deodorizing, and warming your bottles. Microwave sterilizers work very fast and don’t require outlets or
counter space. Cold water sterilizers are great if you are traveling or don’t have access to electricity.

BROOM
A broom is a cleaning tool consisting of usually stiff fibers (often made of materials such as plastic, hair,
or corn husks) attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylindrical handle, the broomstick. It is thus a
variety of brush with a long handle. It is commonly used in combination with a dustpan.
A distinction is made between a "hard broom" and a "soft broom" and a spectrum in between. Soft
brooms are for sweeping walls of cobwebs and spiders, like a "feather duster". Hard brooms are for
rougher tasks like sweeping dirt off sidewalks or concrete floors (or even smoothing and texturing
wet concrete). The majority of brooms are somewhere inbetween, suitable for sweeping the floors of
homes and businesses, soft enough to be flexible and to move even light dust, but stiff enough to
achieve a firm sweeping action.
 CLOTH HANGER

A clothes hanger, coat hanger, or coat hanger, is a device in the shape of:

 Human shoulders designed to facilitate the hanging of

a coat, jacket, sweater, shirt, blouse or dress in a manner that prevents wrinkles, with a lower bar
for the hanging of trousers or skirts.
 Clamp for the hanging of trousers, skirts, or kilts. Both types can be combined in a single hanger.
There are three basic types of clothes hangers. The first is the wire hanger, which has a simple loop of
wire, most often steel in a flattened triangle shape that continues into a hook at the top. The second is
the wooden hanger, which consists of a flat piece of wood cut into a boomerang-like shape with the
edges sanded down to prevent damage to the clothing, and a hook, usually of metal, protruding from
the point. Some wooden hangers have a rounded bar from tip to tip, forming a flattened triangle. This
bar is designed to hang the trousers belonging to the jacket. The third kind and most used in today's
world are plastic coat hangers, which mostly mimic the shape of either a wire or wooden hanger. Plastic
coat hangers are also produced in smaller sizes to accommodate the shapes of children's clothes.

DISHWASHER
A dishwasher is a machine for cleaning dishware and cutlery automatically. Unlike manual dishwashing,
which relies largely on physical scrubbing to remove soiling, the mechanical dishwasher cleans by
spraying hot water, typically between 45 and 75 °C (110 and 170 °F), at the dishes, with lower
temperatures used for delicate items
 DRYER
A clothes dryer, also known as tumble dryer, is a powered household appliance that is used to remove
moisture from a load of clothing, bedding and other textiles, usually shortly after they are washed in
a washing machine. Otherwise, clothes may also be dried by natural evaporation and, if available,
sunlight, on an outdoor or indoor clothes line or clothes horse.

DUSTPAN
A dustpan, the small version of which is also known as a "half brush and shovel", is a cleaning utensil.
The dustpan is commonly used in combination with a broom or long brush. The small dustpan may
appear to be a type of flat scoop. Though often hand-held for home use, industrial and commercial
enterprises use a hinged variety on the end of a stick to allow the user to stand instead of stoop while
using it. This latter improved dustpan design was patented by African-American inventor Lloyd Ray on
August 9, 1897, while the first patented dustpan was by T.E. McNeill nearly 40 years prior.
 FEATHER DUSTER
A feather duster is an implement used for cleaning. It consists typically of a wooden-dowel handle and
feathers from either the male or female ostrich bird that are wound onto the handle by a wrapped wire.
Dusters vary in size but are most often between 14 to 32 inches (36 to 81 cm) in total length. Some
dusters have a retractable casing instead of a dowel handle. These dusters are typically used by rack-
jobbers and truck drivers who need to dust store shelves, and like to retract the feathers into the handle
to avoid damage.
Feather dusters are effective in dusting tight areas, or areas where there are a lot of odds and ends to
dust around. The individual feathers are able to penetrate through the knick-knacks and pull the dust
out of the area without disturbing items. On large open surfaces or walls, or in trying to get spider
webs in the ceiling, either a feather duster or other dusters like lambswool or synthetic dusters will
work.

FLAT IRON
A clothes iron is a device that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove creases and help
prevent the spread of infectious disease. Domestic irons generally range in operating temperature from
between 250 °F (121 °C) to 360 °F (182 °C). It is named for the metal (iron) of which the device was
historically made, and the use of it is generally called ironing. Ironing works by loosening the ties
between the long chains of molecules that exist in polymer fiber materials. With the heat and the
weight of the ironing plate, the fibers are stretched and the fabric maintains its new shape when cool.
Some materials, such as cotton, require the use of water to loosen the intermolecular bonds.
 IRONING BOARD

Most ironing is done on an ironing board, a small, portable, foldable table with a heat-resistant
surface. Some commercial-grade ironing boards incorporate a heating element and a pedal-
operated vacuum to pull air through the board and dry the garment.
On 15 February 1858 W. Vandenburg and J. Harvey patented an ironing table that facilitated
pressing sleeves and pant legs. A truly portable folding ironing board was first patented in Canada in
1875 by John B. Porter. The invention also included a removable press board used for sleeves.[6] In
1892 Sarah Boone obtained a patent in the United States for improvements to the ironing board,
allowing for better quality ironing for shirt sleeves.

LAUNDRY BASKET
A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles,
especially before and after being laundered.
 VACUUM CLEANER
A vacuum cleaner, also known as a sweeper or hoover, is a device that uses an air pump (a centrifugal
fan in all but some of the very oldest models), to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt from
floors and from other surfaces such as upholstery and draperies.
The dirt is collected by either a dustbag or a cyclone for later disposal. Vacuum cleaners, which are used
in homes as well as in industry, exist in a variety of sizes and models—small battery-powered hand-held
devices, wheeled canister models for home use, domestic central vacuum cleaners, huge stationary
industrial appliances that can handle several hundred litres of dust before being emptied, and self-
propelled vacuum trucks for recovery of large spills or removal of contaminated soil. Specialized shop
vacuums can be used to suck up both dust and liquids.

WASHING MACHINE
A washing machine (laundry machine, clothes washer, or washer) is a home appliance used to
wash laundry. The term is mostly applied to machines that use water as opposed to dry cleaning (which
uses alternative cleaning fluids, and is performed by specialist businesses) or ultrasonic cleaners. The
user adds laundry detergent which is sold in liquid or powder form to the wash water.
 BP APPARATUS ANEROID
Aneroid sphygmomanometers (mechanical types with a dial) are in common use; they may require
calibration checks, unlike mercury manometers. Aneroid sphygmomanometers are considered safer
than mercury sphygmomanometers, although inexpensive ones are less accurate. A major cause of
departure from calibration is mechanical jarring. Aneroids mounted on walls or stands are not
susceptible to this particular problem.

BP APPARATUS DIGITAL
Digital meters employ oscillometric measurements and electronic calculations rather than auscultation.
They may use manual or automatic inflation, but both types are electronic, easy to operate without
training, and can be used in noisy environments. They measure systolic and diastolic pressures by
oscillometric detection, employing either deformable membranes that are measured using differential
capacitance, or differential piezoresistance, and they include a microprocessor. They accurately measure
mean blood pressure and pulse rate, while systolic and diastolic pressures are obtained less accurately
than with manual meters,[6] and calibration is also a concern.Digital oscillometric monitors may not be
advisable for some patients, such as those suffering
from arteriosclerosis, arrhythmia, preeclampsia, pulsus alternans, and pulsus paradoxus, as their
calculations may not correct for these conditions, and in these cases, an analog sphygmomanometer is
preferable when used by a trained person. Digital instruments may use a cuff placed, in order of
accuracy and inverse order of portability and convenience, around the upper arm, the wrist, or a
finger. Recently, a group of researchers at Michigan State University developed a smartphone based
device that uses oscillometry to estimate blood pressure. The oscillometric method of detection used
gives blood pressure readings that differ from those determined by auscultation, and vary according to
many factors, such as pulse pressure, heart rate and arterial stiffness,although some instruments are
claimed also to measure arterial stiffness, and some can detect irregular heartbeats.
 BP APPARATUS MERCURIAL
Mercury sphygmomanometers are considered the gold standard. They show blood pressure by
affecting the height of a column of mercury, which does not require recalibration. Because of their
accuracy, they are often used in clinical trials of drugs and in clinical evaluations of high-risk
patients, including pregnant women. A wall mounted mercury sphygmomanometer is also known as
a Baumanometer.

STETHOSCOPE
The stethoscope is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening to the internal sounds of an
animal or human body. It typically has a small disc-shaped resonator that is placed against the skin, and
one or two tubes connected to two earpieces. A stethoscope can be used to listen to the sounds made
by the heart, lungs or intestines, as well as blood flow in arteries and veins. In combination with a
manual sphygmomanometer, it is commonly used when measuring blood pressure.
Less commonly, "mechanic's stethoscopes", equipped with rod shaped chestpieces, are used to listen to
internal sounds made by machines (for example, sounds and vibrations emitted by worn ball bearings),
such as diagnosing a malfunctioning automobile engine by listening to the sounds of its internal parts.
Stethoscopes can also be used to check scientific vacuum chambers for leaks, and for various other
small-scale acoustic monitoring tasks.
 THERMOMETER
A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or a temperature gradient. A thermometer has
two important elements: (1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer or
the pyrometric sensor in an infrared thermometer) in which some change occurs with a change in
temperature; and (2) some means of converting this change into a numerical value (e.g. the visible scale
that is marked on a mercury-in-glass thermometer or the digital readout on an infrared model).
Thermometers are widely used in technology and industry to monitor processes, in meteorology, in
medicine, and in scientific research.
Some of the principles of the thermometer were known to Greek philosophers of two thousand years
ago. The modern thermometer gradually evolved from the thermoscope with the addition of a scale in
the early 17th century and standardisation through the 17th and 18th centuries.