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, and dryers. 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 hamper has a fabric bag, and a supporting frame assembly that has a foldable wall assembly, a base and a top frame. The foldable wall assembly has a rear frame, a left frame a right frame. The base has a rear side that is pivotally connected with the bottom side of the rear frame, with the left and right sides of the base removably coupled to the bottom sides of the left frame and the right frame, respectively. The top frame has a rear side that is removably coupled to the top side of the rear frame, with the left and right sides of the top frame removably coupled to the top sides of the left frame and the right frame, respectively. The fabric bag has four side walls, each side wall having a lip extending around the upper edge of each side wall, and four vertical corner sleeve pockets.

A clothing treatment device including a communicator configured to receive at least one of laundry information, dry information, and location information of clothes owned by a plurality of users from a server; a camera; a display; and a controller configured to update status information of the clothes owned by the plurality of users based on at least one of the laundry information, dry information, and location information of the clothes owned by the plurality of users, control the display to provide a first user interface for providing status information of clothes owned by a first user in response to an object captured by the camera determined as the first user, and control the display to provide a second user interface for providing status information of clothes owned by a second user in response to an object captured by the camera determined as the second user.

A clothing treatment device including a communicator configured to receive at least one of laundry information, dry information, and location information of clothes owned by a plurality of users from a server; a camera; a display; and a controller configured to update status information of the clothes owned by the plurality of users based on at least one of the laundry information, dry information, and location information of the clothes owned by the plurality of users, control the display to provide a first user interface for providing status information of clothes owned by a first user in response to an object captured by the camera determined as the first user, and control the display to provide a second user interface for providing status information of clothes owned by a second user in response to an object captured by the camera determined as the second user.

A collapsible container is provided having an outer liner defining a top, a bottom and vertical sides and an inner liner defining a plurality of sides corresponding to the vertical sides of the outer liner. The inner liner is attached to the outer liner at least at one of the top and the bottom of the outer liner, and each side of the inner liner defines a top edge, a bottom edge, and two side edges which extend vertically. A sleeve is attached to each of the edges of the inner liner at the top, bottom, and sides thereof. The sleeves define substantially circular tubes. A flexible frame is located between the outer liner and the inner liner and disposed within the plurality of sleeves to provide a flexible support and permits collapse and/or folding of the container.

A washable laundry bag includes a water permeable and air permeable material that forms a wall of a laundry bag and means for expanding the wall of the bag to substantially match an interior surface of a washing machine tub or a dryer drum. The means may be magnets that couple the bag to the interior of the tub or drum, spring mechanisms that spring the walls of the bag outwardly, or a combination thereof.

An apparatus for securing items to the drum of a washer or dryer includes a plate with a first finger lift and a second finger lift, strap apertures, cutout portions, coupling apertures, and a drum coupler. The first and second finger lifts may protrude from the plate, allowing a user to pull on and detach the plate from the drum. The strap apertures may receive straps therein so as to couple an item, such as a shoe, knee pads, cap, etc., to the plate. Further, the coupling apertures may comprise protrusions to receive a bracket, which may be pivotally coupled to the coupling apertures, allowing the bracket to pivot.

A collapsible watertight assembly comprises an impermeable flexible container (1) having an open end adapted to be sealed, a neck (7) closable by a screw cap (8), and a roll and lock seal (9) which provides a watertight seal on the open end. The assembly further comprises a reticulated inner container (11) adapted to fit inside the impermeable container (1). In use, a person puts garments in the inner container (11), places the inner container (11) inside the impermeable flexible container (1), fills the impermeable flexible container (1) with water and a cleaning substance, seals the sealing means (9) and applies an agitating motion to the assembly to enable the garments to be washed. The assembly can be used as a portable laundry assembly, as a self-contained assembly for bleaching, dyeing rinsing and drip-drying clothes or to carry water or to keep items dry in high-humidity or damp conditions.

The present application discloses an extendable hamper comprising a first wall, a second wall, a third wall, a fourth wall and a bottom base. Each of the first wall, the second wall, the third wall and the fourth wall comprise an extension wall and a bottom. The extension walls are folded and the bottom base is supported by the extension wall during a smaller hamper mode. The bottoms are folded and the bottom base is supported by the bottoms during a larger hamper mode. A method for utilizing the aforementioned extendable hamper is also disclosed, comprising: extending the extension walls; folding the bottoms: and disposing the bottom base to be supported by the bottoms for the larger hamper mode.

A clothes hamper includes a hamper body extending from a generally closed end to a generally open end with an interior chamber defined within the hamper body. A rack assembly defines one or more hanging elements and is sized and configured to fit within the interior chamber. An extension assembly is positioned within the interior chamber and is configured to facilitate movement of the rack assembly between a retracted position within the interior chamber and an extended position wherein at least a portion of the rack assembly is outside of the hamper body.