Dry Cleaning with Gasoline at Home 1930s
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Uploaded by markdcatlin on Aug 21, 2009
Drycleaning dates back to ancient times, probably beginning with the advent of textile clothing itself. There are many stories about the origin of drycleaning, all centering on a surprise discovery when a petroleum-type fluid was accidentally spilled on a greasy fabric. It quickly evaporated and the stains were miraculously removed. In spite of the name, drycleaning is not completely dry. Fluids are used in the drycleaning process. In the early days, garment scourers and dryers found several fluids that could be used as drycleaning solvents, including camphene, benzene, kerosene, and gasoline. These fluids are all dangerously flammable, so drycleaning was a hazardous business until safer solvents were developed. In the 1930s, percholoroethylene or *perc*(a nonflammable, synthetic solvent) was introduced and is used today in many drycleaning plants. Other cleaning solvents have been added, and still others are currently being tested.Driven by concerns about perc and other drycleaning solvents, recent advances in both technology and garment care have resulted in a sophisticated machine-based process called "wetcleaning" which uses water as the solvent. Wetcleaning is done in specially-designed machines that have to be operated by garment care professionals. While professional cleaners have always employed some form of water-based cleaning methods, often by hand, these historic methods bear little resemblance to the new machine-based wetcleaning process. For more information about new safer dry cleaning methods, go to http://www.epa.state.oh.us/opp/dry.html . This is clipped from the 1930s safety film, sponsored by the California State Fire Marshall, More Dangerous Than Dynamite, which is available on the Internet Archive.
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I liked the part with the fire :P
rygrystaldrigrist 1 month ago
Wet cleaning is a joke. My family owns a few dry cleaners and its impossible to "wet clean" everything. Its basically the samething as laundry but they try to control moisture and use tensioning equipment to stretch fabrics back out. Green earth is the future of dry cleaning.
DorkVader26 9 months ago
oh that was some reall ishh right theree!
leeteight 1 year ago
thats some hardcore special effects man
mikeokhurtz 2 years ago
that lady got caught on animated fire lol!! for real back in the 30's dry cleaners were double walled with the center filled with sand. Glass lined plants is what they called them so if there was an explosion it would blow upward through the roof and not the side walls and the machine had to be in the center of the plant or safe room
1978mtb 2 years ago