Kenmore wringer

[cehalstead]

My great aunt (who is now 94 and still uses her '67 coppertone Lady K set) had a Kenmore wringer machine. It seems to me that it had a lint filter. This filter worked by pumping water when the washer was agitating through the drain hose into a filter element that hung on the side of the tub. Am I remembering this correctly? This would have been in the early 60's...

 

[scott55405]

The type you're thinking of had a hole in the lid, underwhich there was a little brush that looks almost like a toilet brush, encased in plastic. You put the drain hose through the hole in the lid and ran the pump while you were washing, and it served as a recirculating filter.

There were also models I believe that had a passive nonrecirculating filter, and that was mounted on the inner side of the tub.

 

[spiralactivator]

I saw a Kenmore wringer in an antique shop. It had the recirculating filter--a bottle brush in a plastic tube. I wonder how well it actually works.

 

[gansky1]

They actually worked quite well, but the brush filter was a bit of pain to clean. There is a flow restrictor in the assembly as that is one powerful pump on those machines. The drain spout "snaps" into the hole in the lid to keep it all secure. I always wondered how many time it took a new owner to spray water everywhere when pulling off the lid with the machine running. This filter thing was an option, if you don't turn on the pump, you can watch the roto-swirl washing the clothes.