Has anyone here ever seen one of these?

[bajaespuma]

I'm assuming that this was the very first Jet Swirl Fabric Softener dispenser, maybe/probably from 1962 or 63. This picture was part of a photo essay that a member here posted many years ago about an old appliance store with lots of old parts somewhere in Pennsylvania, I think. I came across this picture the other day and noticed it for the first time because when I first saw it, I thought it was simply a broken Jet Swirl. The closer I examine it, I think it is the way it's supposed to be. I'd love to get my hands on one of these but I'll settle for some more information and certainly some better pictures:

 

[bajaespuma]

...and while you're at it,

If anyone has any pics, information or, better still, one of these GE Powdered Detergent Dispensers for sale, I'd love to get one. We had one with a 1972 machine and, once again, I didn't have the courage to snatch it when we sold the house.

 

[gansky1]

Ken, that's a Kelvinator lint filter that sat on top of the centric agitator, held down by the agitator cap. Looks like someone just stored it in a filter flo pan.

 

[bajaespuma]

Wow!

I feel like a second-rate archeologist having put the wrong head on a dinosaur skeleton!!

 

I guess it's just coincidence that this plastic Kelvinator filter-pan fit perfectly around the top of a GE filter-pan. The plastics even matched; I was convinced.

 

Thank you Greg for having the knowledge and the picture! I still want one of these. My Aunt Grace had a Kelvinator (it was their brand) in the early sixties and I remember marveling at it because the agitator was so weird. I thought it operated like a normal agitator. Better still, her washing machine had a window in the lid.

 

I even worked out a few diagrams on how my misconcept would have worked: