Abstract: Systems and methods for washing and thawing objects, such as vegetables and fruits, where large amounts of lifting of heavy items is minimized, complex and expensive pumping and manifold systems and structures are not required; and system cost and daily maintenance is reduced. The system includes a structure for holding a volume of fluid, a vertical motion structure driven by an electric motor or the like that raises and lowers a basket carrier between an elevated position and a lowered position. In the lowered position, one or more baskets are positioned on a basket carrier and are repeatedly lowered into and raised from the volume of fluid.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of washing apparatus which are portable, and operable without a running source of water, and without a power source. The washing apparatus operates with a volume of liquid cleaner (water) and manual manipulation of a handle. The apparatus may also be dis-assembled by a user without tools for shipping or storage in a much smaller space.

Abstract: A washing machine, with an inner tub designed to be linearly reciprocable along its vertical axis in addition to being rotatable on the vertical axis during the washing or rinsing process, is disclosed. In the washing machine, a washing tub is suspended within a cabinet forming the profile of the washing machine and having an openable cover at its top end. The washing tub consists of an outer tub suspended within the cabinet and containing water therein, and a perforated inner tub set within the outer tub. This inner tub contains laundries therein, and washes or rinses the laundries during the washing or rinsing process. A drive unit is mounted to the bottom of the outer tub, and rotates and vertically reciprocates the inner tub within a predetermined stroke. The washing machine of this invention thus forms vertical moving currents of water in addition to active swirling currents of water within the inner tub, and prevents laundries from being twisted during the washing or rinsing process.

Abstract: A washing machine, provided with a twistable washing tub inside a perforated spin-drying tub for improving its cleaning effect, is disclosed. The twistable washing tub is repeatedly twisted and untwisted at its sidewall during a washing process, thus repeatedly compressing and releasing the laundry and improving the laundry cleaning effect. The washing machine includes an outer tub containing water therein, and a drive unit installed at a position outside the outer tub and generating rotating force. A washing tub is rotatably set within the outer tub, and is connected to the drive unit at its lower portion. This washing tub is twistable and deformable at its sidewall to compress the laundry contained therein during a rotating action of the washing tub.

Abstract: A washing machine, with an inner tub designed to be linearly reciprocable along its vertical axis in addition to being rotatable on the vertical axis during the washing or rinsing process, is disclosed. In the washing machine, a washing tub is suspended within a cabinet forming the profile of the washing machine and having an openable cover at its top end. The washing tub consists of an outer tub suspended within the cabinet and containing water therein, and a perforated inner tub set within the outer tub. This inner tub contains laundries therein, and washes or rinses the laundries during the washing or rinsing process. A drive unit is mounted to the bottom of the outer tub, and rotates and vertically reciprocates the inner tub within a predetermined stroke. The washing machine of this invention thus forms vertical moving currents of water in addition to active swirling currents of water within the inner tub, and prevents laundries from being twisted during the washing or rinsing process.

Abstract: An apparatus for dyeing textile materials is provided that includes one or more chambers for dyeing and one or more storage baskets. The apparatus has a first station with a container hydraulically connected with the chamber. The first station is for the drawing and metering of dyeing solutions and for the admission of the dyeing solutions into the container to feed the chamber for dyeing the material disposed inside the storage basket. A second station has a stirrer. The basket is connected in a stable but removable way to the stirrer. The basket is located in correspondence with the chamber.

Abstract: A beaker for a sample dyeing machine comprises a hollow beaker body and a longitudinal sliding cylinder with flanges on both its ends. The outer wall of the cylinder is uniformly perforated for wrapping of a sample yarn or cloth to be dyed. A plurality of grooves is separately formed on the periphery of either one of the flanges to guide the flow of a dye solution. An annular passage is formed in the interior of the cylinder from one end to the other for allowing a dye solution to flow between the passage and the perforated wall of the cylinder. The beaker thus constructed can dye a sample uniformly and efficiently due to sufficient contact between a sample and a dye solution. The beaker also comprises a hollow tube outside the beaker body for one-way flow of a dye solution, and/or a dispensing device screwed on the top thereof for liquid addition to the beaker. A sample dyeing machine comprises a plurality of the beakers in a fixed rack.

Abstract: Apparatus for dyeing textile materials with a fixed, hollow and substantially cylindrical body intended to contain a dyeing bath consisting of water and dyeing substances in predetermined proportions, comprising in combination:--a basket for holding the materials to be dyed, whose side wall is provided with a plurality of ports or openings for the communication of the basket with the cavity of the body, and with upper and lower bases being provided with corresponding ports or openings, the basket being locatable within the cavity of the container and a transmission driven by a corresponding driving member and connected to the upper base of the basket for the vertical reciprocating movement thereof.

Abstract: A resonator of a low frequency oscillation washing machine mounted to an outer periphery of a washtub has an outer periphery shaped so that a distance between the rotational center of the washtub and the outer periphery of the resonator gradually varies between points on the outer periphery of the resonator. At least one discharging hole is provided in a portion of the outer periphery of the resonator which is the farthest from the rotational center of the washtub within the varying portion.

Abstract: A washing net attaching and detaching structure of a fully automatic washing machine with a washing course of dry-marked clothes is shaped as a basket which is attachably and detachably installed within a washtub for being vibrated in the up and down directions in accordance with a reciprocal ascending and descending movement of a driving member to preserve and wash laundry indicated with a dry mark. The washing net has a diameter smaller than an inner circumference of an upper end of the washtub for being easily attached and detached to and from the washtub during the cleaning of dry-marked clothes to provide a convenience to a user and prevent damage to the laundry caused by the laundry being bitten in the lower portion of the washing net, thereby significantly improving the efficiency and reliability of the product.

Abstract: A washing apparatus of a fully automatic washing machine incorporated with a washing course of dry-marked clothes includes a motor shaft installed to a motor mounted to an outer tub for being rotated by the driving of the motor, a driving member coupled with the motor shaft for reciprocally ascending and descending together with the rotational movement of the motor shaft, and a washing net joined to the driving member for being vibrated in up and down directions in accordance with the reciprocal ascending and descending movement of the driving member to preserve and clean the laundry indicated with the dry mark, in which the driving member is installed to the center of a washing blade and inserted with the washing net. Thus, the washing net housing with the laundry thereon is vibrated in up and down directions while the driving member reciprocally ascends and descends along with the driving of the motor.