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 laundry system is operable with only a standard power supply outlet. The laundry system can re-use water from an onboard tank component via integral plumbing components. The laundry system can comprise an onboard grey water treatment component to make system-assisted laundry more accessible to users with no designated facilities for this type of appliance. The laundry system can comprise filter cartridges that enables reuse of wash water for a plurality of wash cycles. A dryer of such a laundry system can be implemented in a manner that does not require a discharge vent and that harvests water from the dryer cycle for re-use within the wash cycles.

A method to control a laundry washing machine havingan outer casing, a washing tub; a rotatable drum; a water softening device provided with ion exchanger agents designed to reduce the hardness degree of fresh water to be used during said washing program; a brine tank which is designed to supply, during a regeneration cycle, a prefixed amount of the brine to the water softening device for regenerating the ion exchanger agents; perform a waste-brine cleaning cycle for washing-out the waste brine solution contained in the water softening device and/or in the brine tank. The method controls the washing machine according to a washing program comprising one or more a washing phases, one or more rinse phases and one or more spin phases; and performs the regeneration cycle and the waste-brine cleaning cycle during respective washing program phases, which are different one to the other.

A laundry washing machine having an outer casing, washing tub, rotatable drum inside the tub, detergent dispenser, and fresh-water supply circuit for channeling fresh water to the tub. The machine has an electrochemical device having: an electrolytic cell to convert brine into chlorine-based sanitizing agent, an unpressurized salt container to contain consumable salt grains, a water supply line to channel water into the salt container to dissolve the salt grains and form brine, and an unpressurized brine container that communicates with the salt container and collects brine formed in the salt container to avoid prolonged stagnation of the water/brine in the salt container. The electrolytic cell communicates with the brine container so as to receive the brine contained therein.

A steam generator includes a pre-heat chamber configured to heat incoming water to a temperature less than the boiling point of water, where the pre-heat chamber is configured to heat the water such that if the water contains a calcium compound, the calcium compound is caused to take a particulate form. The steam generator also includes a filter assembly in fluid communication with the pre-heat chamber, the filter assembly including a removable particulate filter element, where the filter element is reusable and cleanable. The steam generator also includes a water pump in fluid communication with the filter assembly, and operative to cause water flow through the steam generator and a boiler in fluid communication with the water pump, where the water pump is configured to cause water to flow to the boiler, and where the boiler is configured to boil water such that steam is produced.

A laundry washing machine (1) includes an outer casing (2), a washing tub (3), a rotatable drum housed in axially rotatable manner inside the washing tub (3), a detergent dispenser (10), a fresh-water supply circuit (12) for selectively channelling a flow of fresh water towards the detergent dispenser (10) and/or the washing tub (3), and an internal water softening device (14) capable of reducing the hardness degree of the fresh water. The laundry washing machine (1) further includes: at least a main drawer (16, 74) which is fitted/inserted in extractable manner into a corresponding substantially basin-shaped, drawer housing (18, 73) which is located/recessed inside the outer casing (2), and is provided with a substantially basin-shaped, manually tillable regeneration-agent compartment (20); a first water-supply line (19) which is structured for selectively channelling a flow of fresh water into said regeneration-agent compartment (20) so as to form some brine; a brine container (34) which is located underneath the drawer housing (18, 73) and communicates with the bottom of the drawer housing (18, 73) so as to allow the brine to freely flow by gravity from a basin-shaped bottom portion (32) of said drawer housing (18, 73) into the same brine container (34); and an electrically-powered pump (35) able to selectively pump the brine from said brine container (34) to the water softening device (14).

A laundry washing machine includes at least one drawer which is fitted/inserted in extractable manner into a corresponding substantially basin-shaped, drawer housing, which is located/recessed inside the outer casing, and is movable in a substantially horizontally-oriented, displacement direction (d) between a retracted position in which the drawer is almost completely recessed into the outer casing, and an extracted position in which the drawer partly juts out from the outer casing. The drawer in turn includes: a drawer-like supporting structure having a substantially basin-shaped, regeneration-agent compartment structured for being manually fillable with a given amount of regeneration agent, and a manually openable, lid assembly, which is fitted on the drawer-like supporting structure, on top of the regeneration-agent compartment, and is structured to selectively close/cover the upper mouth of the regeneration-agent compartment.

A washing machine includes a detergent dispenser to supply detergent into a washing tub, a fresh-water supply circuit selectively channeling fresh water towards the detergent dispenser and/or a washing tub, and an internal water softening device for reducing the hardness degree of the fresh water. The detergent dispenser includes a detergent drawer extractibly fitted/inserted into a substantially basin-shaped housing located/recessed inside an outer casing, and is movable in a substantially horizontal displacement direction (d) between retracted and extracted positions. The detergent drawer includes one or more detergent compartments for filling with detergent, softener or other washing agent, and a regeneration-agent compartment for filling with consumable salt or other regeneration agent. The regeneration-agent compartment is arranged in the detergent drawer beside the detergent compartment/s transversally to the displacement direction (d) inside the housing. Both the detergent compartment/s and the regeneration-agent compartment are simultaneously fully accessible in the extracted position.

Laundry washing machine (1) having an outer casing (2), a washing tub (3), arranged inside the casing (2), a rotatable drum (4), arranged in axially rotating manner inside the washing tub (3) and designed to receive laundry to be washed, and a detergent dispensing assembly (12), designed for supplying laundry detergent into the washing tub (3). The washing machine also has a water softening system (14), designed to receive fresh water from a water mains (13) and reduce the hardness degree of the fresh water in order to supply softened water to the detergent dispensing assembly (12) and/or to the washing tub (3), during one or more softened water laundry washing phases of a laundry washing program. A control panel is configured to allow an operator to input information associated with the kind of laundry to be washed, and an electronic controller (15) is configured to receive information and to control water softening system (14) in order to perform one or more softened water laundry washing phases during washing program, based on received laundry information.

Laundry washing machine (1) has an outer casing (2), a washing tub (3), arranged inside the casing (2), and a rotatable drum (4), arranged in axially rotating manner inside the washing tub (3) and designed to receive laundry to be washed The machine also has a detergent dispensing assembly (12), designed for supplying detergent/water into the washing tub (3), a water softening system (14), designed to receive fresh water from a water mains (13) and configured to reduce the hardness degree of the fresh water in order to supply softened water to the detergent dispensing assembly (12) and/or to the washing tub (3) during one or more softened water laundry wash phases. The machine also has a heating device (11) to heat the water loaded in the washing tub (3) so as to regulate the temperature of the loaded water, a control panel (28) configured to allow the operator to input information indicative of a washing course to be performed, wherein the washing course has one or more softened water laundry wash phases, and a controller (15) configured to control the heating device (11) to regulate the temperature of the water loaded in the washing tub (3) based on the softened water laundry wash phase/s of the laundry washing course.