A mobile vehicle that is self-contained and equipped to wash firefighter gear at the firefighter's station. The vehicle would be on a dispatched network and be activated after an incident, and for scheduled cleanings on a regular basis; the vehicle having the required equipment to clean all contaminated gear by use of a sonic cleaner, extractors, dryers, and an ozonator. The process includes monitoring the life of the gear and decontaminating the gear in accordance with the gear manufacturer's recommendations. Gear that has been cleaned is reassembled, wrapped, sealed and placed back into a fireman's station, giving the firefighter the assurance that their firefighting gear was cleaned, sanitized, and serviced per the manufacturer's recommendations.

A method for inspecting work coats by x-raying, in which the x-ray radiation is shielded or reduced by x-raying in a chamber or spatially sufficiently remote from the persons so that the persons are not exposed to impermissibly high levels of radiation, for use in freeing used textile articles such as work coats from foreign bodies before being treated in laundries, which has previously been done manually, which is time-consuming and in itself entails a risk of injury to the persons freeing the work coats from foreign bodies.

A clothing rack has a first rail and a second rail extending upwards from an integral floor support member. A housing is moveably attached to the first rail and to the second rail using two housing support members. A storage member is integrally attached between the first rail and the second rail. The housing has a plurality of visual indicators located on it for indicating the location of garments on a storage member disposed underneath it. A computer system and associated database facilitates the entry of new customer information, the movement of an item within the business operations to process the customer order and the delivery thereof. Various implementations of multiple combination of EzSort Systems are presented.

A clothing rack has a first rail and a second rail extending upwards from an integral floor support member. A housing is moveably attached to the first rail and to the second rail using two housing support members. A storage member is integrally attached between the first rail and the second rail. The housing has a plurality of visual indicators located on it for indicating the location of garments on a storage member disposed underneath it. A computer system and associated database facilitates the entry of new customer information, the movement of an item within the business operations to process the customer order and the delivery thereof. Various implementations of multiple combination of EzSort Systems are presented.

A laundry charging system manages a laundry article and does laundry based on an article number. The article number is contained in a tag attached to the laundry article. The head office is connected to a plurality of sites via network. The system has an issuer in the head office to generate the article number, a database in the head office to store a laundry record that includes information related to the laundry article corresponding to the article number, an access identifying unit in the head office to evaluate a type of access to the head office from the site, and a charging unit in the head office. When the access identifying unit identifies an access to the head office from the site that requests to the issuer for issuing the article number, the charging unit charges the site that is an access source.

A laundry charging system manages a laundry article and does laundry based on an article number. The article number is contained in a tag attached to the laundry article. The head office is connected to a plurality of sites via network. The system has an issuer in the head office to generate the article number, a database in the head office to store a laundry record that includes information related to the laundry article corresponding to the article number, an access identifying unit in the head office to evaluate a type of access to the head office from the site, and a charging unit in the head office. When the access identifying unit identifies an access to the head office from the site that requests to the issuer for issuing the article number, the charging unit charges the site that is an access source.

Articles of laundry, such as towels, of different sizes are sorted. The articles are clamped from a jumble. The clamp moves upward for sensing a size. For sorting, different size articles are blown to different tracks, such as different conveyors. The articles, resting on the conveyors, are conveyed to different exits for the different sizes.

Articles of laundry, such as towels, of different sizes are sorted. The articles are clamped from a jumble. The clamp moves upward for sensing a size. For sorting, different size articles are blown to different tracks, such as different conveyors. The articles, resting on the conveyors, are conveyed to different exits for the different sizes.

A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry items according to a cycle of operation includes a chassis defining an interior. A rotatable treating chamber is located within the interior. An antenna is configured to receive RFID data from RFID tags on the laundry items and outputs a signal indicative of the RFID data. A controller receives the signal from the antenna and is configured to process the signal and to suggest, alter, or implement the cycle of operation based on the signal.

Devices, systems, and methods for autonomously separating and sorting a plurality of individual articles from a pile of laundry articles into two or more sorted loads for washing are described. For example, an autonomous sorting and separating system includes a stationary surface configured to receive thereon at a first location the pile of laundry articles. A plurality of actuatable grippers are disposed at spaced apart positions adjacent the stationary surface and comprise a first actuatable gripper configured to grasp, hoist, and deposit at a second location at least one of the plurality of individual articles within reach of a second actuatable gripper. A terminal gripper comprising at least one of the second actuatable gripper and another actuatable gripper is configured to release an individual article into one of the two or more sorted loads. At least one controller is in operable communication with the grippers.