GEs own round a bucket compactor
Great video Corey thanks for posting, this video couldn’t be that old that compactor didn’t come out until around 74 or a little later.
When whirlpool introduced their compactor in late 69 GE introduced one at the exact same time that was a complete copy of the whirlpool compactor apparently Somebody fled whirlpool with the plans and GE built the exact same compactor as whirlpool quickly filed suit and a judge blocked GE from selling the compactor for a while, but then allowed Sales of the GE and the whirlpool identical compactor to proceed. GE eventually lost the court case in a couple years and had to discontinue the whirlpool design.
That’s when GE came up with the compactor in your video which was a pretty crappy design. Overall, I thought this was easily the worst of all the different trash compactor that were sold. They had lots of problems with door hinges, and the buckets falling off. It was just kind of an unworkable Design, it was funny how they say it was smaller than the previous compactor. Well, it’s the same 15 inch width, but it is more shallow front to back, but you don’t usually need room behind the compactor when it’s under a cabinet.
This round bucket, GE compactor did have a little more compacting force, then whirl pools however a round bucket obviously holds a whole lot less stuff than the big rectangular bin in whirlpools compactor, and the one with the greatest capacity was the 18 inch wide KitchenAid compactors.
GE continued building this round bucket compactor through the 80s but then got out of the compactor business and came out with a 12 inch wide one which was made by another company and sold under various names.
