1959 Hotpoint condenser dryer!

[peteski50]

I saw this ad and I was always interested in condenser dryers. Does anyone have more to add?

 

[arbilab]

Yee-Gee-Bee-Kay! A condenser dryer in 1959? A dryness sensor in 1959? NO LINT FILTER??? I sense a disturbance in the marketing-credibility force.

The first two are too far ahead of their time to be possible. The last is utterly impossible.

 

[mattl]

I believe Robert has a'58 Frigidaire condensing dryer., so not really on the cutting edge for '59....   I don't think the dryness sensor was far behind.

 

[dj-gabriele]

How neat, I guess it was water-condenser. Any idea of how many gallons those used in a standard load?
Also I think that there is no lint filter as all the lint is taken away from the condensation water as in a modern washer-dryer and flushed down the drain.

 

[appnut]

Frigidaire had been selling condenser dryers since 1951 or 1952.  Frigidaire's TOL Custom Imperial dryer was both condenser and also was Frigidaire's first dryer with auto dry cycle.  Frigidaire continued to sell condenser dryers through the 1965 model yaer. 

 

[combo52]

CONDENSER CLOTHES DRYERS

MT and HP were the only two US companies that sold water condensing dryers. MT made theirs from about 1952-1965, thier first machine did not have a lint filter but when it was redesigned around 1956 they added a blower and LF. MTs WCDs used about 1/3 gallon of cold water per minute or around 20 gallons for the average load. HPs WCDs used about 1/2 GPM of water or again 30 GPL. MT actually had the electronic control on its WCDs starting in the early 1960s, Frigidare also made Electronically controlled models in 1965 of thier air-cooled condenser clothes dryers. I believe that Westinghouse was the last company to make a WCD in the US. They had one that stacked on thier FL washer and the drain hose went directly into the washers stand-pipe so no water pump was used, these were made around the late 1960s, we have one that I am restoring. For obvious reasons all no-vent condenser dryers were electric.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The small text in the ad says the lint goes down the drain. I knew a family that had one of these in Woodtone Brown. It was very quiet. Mostly what you heard while it was running was the water running, like a toilet was filling somewhere in the house. The water shut off a few minutes before the motor stopped. The lady had a waterfall front Kenmore washer and set the timer to 60 minutes to dry everything in a mixed cottons load.

Do you see that little plastic box near the top of the inner door? Fuzz used to collect on it, but not much. It held the air freshener tablet. Hotpoint advertised that their "high density" Calrod elements did not glow red in their water dryers, meaning, I guess, that the heat was not as intense.

 

[norgeway]

But???

Are the Bendix Duo Matics not condensers also, ???

 

[appnut]

Are the Bendix Duo Matics not condensers also, ???

Hans, I believe the point of the thread and interest is stand-alone condenser dryers, not combination washer/dryers.