Press, laundry

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OBJECT TYPE: BOSOM-BODY/STEAM
DATE: 1929
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1976.0226.001

MANUFACTURER: PANTEX PRESSING MACHINE INC.
MODEL: L 338OPLHD7
LOCATION: Central Falls, Rhode Island, United States of America

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General Information

Serial #: 29136B
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Cast iron body/ canvas cover and padding/ wooden handle

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 101.0 cm
Width: 127.0 cm
Height: 127.0 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Industrial Technology
Category: Industrial equipment
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: PANTEX
Country: United States of America
State/Province: Rhode Island
City: Central Falls

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: Sometime between 1920 when the laundry where it was used was opened and 1976 when it closed.
Canada: : In Ontario (1900), there were 6,919 Chinese immigrants and 2,508 Chinese laundries. Because of discrimination, the Chinese were forced to create their own economic niche: the hand-wash laundry shops. This particular machine was used at the Hintonburgh Hand Laundry Shop in Ottawa, one of the last shops of its kind. It closed in 1976. Hintonburg Hand Laundry started by Ta Fung Ho in 1902, and remained in the family until 1976. His son, Lin Chong Ho, started working in 1921 after arriving from China. The shop ran for 57 years and produced thousands of pounds of clean clothes.
Function: Shirt front press; uses steam to heat and press the clothes. The head of the press is lowered onto the shirt using compressed air, and then line steam is admitted to the head to heat the clothes. Condensed steam is carried away by a drainpipe.
Technical: Used in Chinese hand laundry shops. The technology was not very good and most workers had to put in long hours and endure harsh conditions. However, the amount of clothes that could be finished in a day was a high amount depending on the type of machinery in the shops. Bosom/body/yoke press, model L3380PLHD7, Serial number 291 36B.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: Molded on front: "PANTEX PRESSINGMACHINE, INC./ MACH. NO./ CENTRAL FALLS, R.I./ PAN-TEX"/ PLATE: "CANADIAN PANTEX MACHINERY CO., LTD./ OF MONTREAL, CANADA/ THIS MACHINE EMBODIES FEATURES/ COVERED BY ONE OR MORE OF THE/ FOLLOWING UNITED STATES PATENTS/ 1661153...2184375/ CANADIAN PATS: 285379 287225/ 287226 OTHER PATENTS PENDING/..."
Missing: Unknown
Finish: Painted matte grey with black trim
Decoration: N/A

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PANTEX PRESSING MACHINE INC., Press, laundry, after 1929, Artifact no. 1976.0226, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1976.0226.001/

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