Armen Cleaners - Dry Cleaning Department, March 1949
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Ann Arbor News, April 18, 1949
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DRY CLEANING DEPARTMENT 1. WORK BENCH AND SCALE...here, each batch of clothes is sorted and weighed to make a balanced load when it goes into the dry cleaning machine. 2. DRY CLEANING MACHINE...the most modern design and construction available on the market. Back of this machine (not visible in the picture) is a 130 gallon storage tank containing two large filtering units. Clothes are placed into the dry cleaning machine, which is set for the desired operating time, and given a thorough cleaning in Perchlorethycene (a chemical solvent produced by the Dow and Dupont Corporations). This filtered, pure, solvent is pumped, continuously, into garments during the complete cycle of the dry cleaning operation. At the end of the dry cleaning operation, the machine extracts the garments, and automatically comes to a stop. 3. This is the machine into which the extracted garments are put next...here they are dried in room temperature air. 4. This unit is a still...Cleaning solvent is distilled in this machine more than 3 times a week. Even though the solvent is always kept clean, by means of filter powder and filter units, it cannot be kept free of invisible impurities. Such impurities are removed by means of complete and thorough distillation.
Ann Arbor News, April 18, 1949
Caption
DRY CLEANING DEPARTMENT 1. WORK BENCH AND SCALE...here, each batch of clothes is sorted and weighed to make a balanced load when it goes into the dry cleaning machine. 2. DRY CLEANING MACHINE...the most modern design and construction available on the market. Back of this machine (not visible in the picture) is a 130 gallon storage tank containing two large filtering units. Clothes are placed into the dry cleaning machine, which is set for the desired operating time, and given a thorough cleaning in Perchlorethycene (a chemical solvent produced by the Dow and Dupont Corporations). This filtered, pure, solvent is pumped, continuously, into garments during the complete cycle of the dry cleaning operation. At the end of the dry cleaning operation, the machine extracts the garments, and automatically comes to a stop. 3. This is the machine into which the extracted garments are put next...here they are dried in room temperature air. 4. This unit is a still...Cleaning solvent is distilled in this machine more than 3 times a week. Even though the solvent is always kept clean, by means of filter powder and filter units, it cannot be kept free of invisible impurities. Such impurities are removed by means of complete and thorough distillation.
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1949
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March
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