Siemens has introduced a shirt-ironing machine dubbed the “dressman”. Meant for home-use, this $1200usd machine works by pumping hot air through wet, already-laundered shirts. With 12 pre-programmed settings, the results are excellent.
At a commercial shirt laundry, a family of two with 1 shirt each per day would run up a bill of about $2200 per year if the rate was $3 per shirt. So the device would pay for itself in ½ year.
On the other hand, you can do the ironing by hand at home. Siemens estimates that it takes 8 minutes to iron a shirt (seems low). See this link for a detailed 11-step 27-minute way to iron good-quality shirts. If you average these 2 estimates to get 15 minutes of ironing per shirt, then 730 shirts per year will take you about 180 hours per year. Now, if you value your free time at about $12 per hour, then the device would also pay for itself in a half-year.
Not a cool gadget, but hey, it’s a gadget.
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I think Tomiko is not ironing your shirts!
Way to go Tomiko!
We are opening up a loundry industry very soon hence we are looking strong and quality authomatic Ironing machines . Finding that in your website was quite interesting. Please kindly forward your’ prices to us without delay. Thank you
Nice, but you`ll have to kick your lodger out to make room for it. <br />
Is there a version for one armed people.
We are opening up a loundry industry very soon hence we are looking strong and quality authomatic Ironing machines .<br />
We live in Yucatan, México and are anxiuos to hear your <br />
price & delivery time.<br />
Thank´s in advance.
Need to contact in México.
i would like to purchase “the dressman” shirt machine, though only if it works in the united states and if can be shipped to new york city, so please let me know as soon as possible.
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Please let us know if have any information ragarding automatic shirt ironing machine for industrial or commercial purpose as one of our client is interested to install this machine.<br />
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it’s interesting to read this article over six years later. obviously, the automatic shirt ironer never caught on, at least in America, but I still think it’s a neat idea
I’d rather have a robot iron my shirts, just because that’d be cool to watch.