OBJECTIVE To describe washing machine related injuries in children in the United States. METHODS Injury data for 496 washing machine related injuries documented by the Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System and death certificate data files were analyzed. Gender, age, diagnosis, body part injured, disposition, location and mechanism of injury were c...

We are reporting four cases of serious washing machine related injury that presented within a period of 5 months. All patients were young children with the mean age of 9 year-old and three had their dominant hand injured. The washing machines involved were the automatic top loader type and all injuries occurred during the spinning phase. Serious automatic washing machine injury is not uncommon ...

One of the most irksome tasks in a pathological department is the washing of test-tubes. Particularly is this so when a thousand or more tubes have to be washed at the end of a long day doing Wassermann and Kahn tests. If the task is postponed to the next day the cleaning process becomes more difficult. It seemed that a machine was needed for the mechanical rinsing of tubes immediately after th...

The use of textronic RFID transponders (RFIDtex tags) offers completely new possibilities in designing household appliances. Their implementations technologies washing or ironing textiles are very promising. Specific information on maintaining clothes can be stored the memory RFIDtex tags that permanently bound to products. This read by devices and then used automatically select best program mo...