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Items You Must Not Dry
Items that cause fire
• Clothes with oil, chemicals, etc. on them (including floor cloths and towels)
• Clothes with resin (cellulose type) on them
• Clothes containing polypropylene fiber (See page 9.)
Items that damage clothes themselves
Items that may damage the equipment
Duvets or starched clothes
This may block the filter or
cause a similar malfunction.
Daily necessities other than clothes
Mats, carpets, umbrella,
wigs, breakables, etc.
Items such as cushions, etc. that
contain cotton padding
or urethane (sponge)
This may block the filter or
cause a similar malfunction.
Clothes, etc. with poor permeability
(place mats, rain coats, anoraks, waterproof sheet
<picnic ground sheets, mats, etc.>,
vinyl products, nursing aprons, etc.)
These may block the
filter or cause a similar
malfunction.
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or
or
Dry cleaning
Dry cleaning
Dry cleaning
Petroleum-
based
Items with a “do not tumble dry” symbol
*
“Tumbler drying” refers to drying clothes in a rotating
drum type dryer.
Items that are easily affected by heat
• Items that use polyurethane
• Lacework products (curtains,
tablecloths, etc.)
• Duvet covers with
lace on them
• Cushions, soft
toys, etc.
Clothes that might shrink
• Clothes that use linen,
regenerated fiber (rayon),
etc.
• Knit-woven clothes
Clothes with emblems or
stickers that are attached by
a hot iron, etc.
Heat might cause emblems or stickers
to peel off or adhesive to melt.
Silk products
These sometimes lose their shape or
their colors run.
Wool products / wool fabric
These sometimes shrink or their
colors run.
Leather products
These sometimes lose their shape.
Items with dry cleaning pictograms
Items with a “dry flat” or “hang dry” symbol
This is a laundry
symbol.
or
or
flat
flat
or
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