1.Previous
3.Next

solely for the washing and other one was for drying, dry-cleaned clothes would be manually taken to the dryer unit by the operator. Machines of this era were described as "vented"; their drying exhausts were expelled into the atmosphere, the same as many modern tumble-dryer exhausts. This contributed to environmental contamination, and much potentially reusable solvent was lost to the atmosphere.
* Second generation machines combined both washer and dryer functions, still vented vapours outside. Such machines are still called "dry-to-dry".

1.Previous
3.Next