Graybar Wringer with Sabre- like top load design

[everythingold]

Very strange. really a front-loader.

 

[everythingold]

tub. still runs.

 

[everythingold]

lift out portion. 1923 date I think.

 

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[launderess]

Thor

Amoung others had a similar design, as indeed did commercial laundries.

The long tub H-Axis design was popular on both sides of the pond and still is for commercial laundries, the only problem was how to extract water from laundry.

For domestic use most machines included a wringer as shown, while commercial laundries would have gone with an extractor. As all extractors at that time were heavy and or required bolting down, they obviously weren't something sold to the average housewife.

 

[alr2903]

I think even Maytag, had models with this cylinder in a "rinse-tub" configuration, prior to "gyrator action". alr2903