Method and system for handling and transporting laundry in bags

Abstract

A method for handling and transporting dirty laundry in one or more bags (10, 20) before washing and one or more bags (30) that have been emptied of dirty laundry, by means of one or more different types of laundry handling stations (1, 1a, 1b, 2, 3, 3a, 3b, 4, 4a, 4b, 5) and / or one or more laundry handling stations of the same type and by means of a transport system (7) for transporting the bags (10, 20, 30) to, through and / or from and / or between the different and / or the same laundry handling stations and for handling clean laundry after washing, comprising: - receiving one or more containers (8) with dirty, unsorted laundry at a first end of one or more laundry handling stations (1, 1a, 1b) for filling unsorted, dirty laundry into the empty bag(s) (30) configured is / are,that it is / are transported by means of the transport system (7) to and / or from and / or between and / or for receiving at / from a first and / or second end of one or more laundry handling stations (1, 1a, 1b, 2, 3, 3a, 3b, 4, 4a, 4b, 5),- emptying the container(s) (8) with unsorted dirty laundry and filling the unsorted dirty laundry into the bag(s) by directly filling it by hand as one or more manual laundry filling stations and / or emptying the container(s) (8) with unsorted dirty laundry and filling the unsorted dirty laundry into the first end of one or more filling stations (1, 1a, 1b) by removing the unsorted dirty laundry from each container, and- transporting the bag(s) (10) after manually filling the bag(s) with dirty, unsorted laundry and / or transporting the bag(s) after filling with dirty, unsorted laundry at the second end of the filling station(s) (1,1a, 1b) from the second end of the filling station(s) along the transport system (7) into a second laundry handling station (2) upstream of the filling station(s), wherein the second laundry handling station (2) provides the intermediate storage / buffering of the bag(s) (10) filled with dirty, unsorted laundry together with dirty, sorted laundry transported in other bags (20) by the transport system from one or more third laundry handling stations (3, 3a, 3b) in the same / common intermediate storage / buffering (2).