As promised, here are the 15 series scans! It has been fun to see the other post as well with the 17 series scans from Fred as well as the 18 series. Anyone out there with the 16 series full line brochure?
KitchenAid 15 Series Scans
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Exclusive New 4-Way Wash - new for the 15 series (no more 100 pound cast iron wash arm), used through the 17 series machines if I'm not mistaken.
Exclusive New 4-Way Wash - new for the 15 series (no more 100 pound cast iron wash arm), used through the 17 series machines if I'm not mistaken.
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Portables!
Portables!
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Top loading Portables! This brochure never ends ~
Top loading Portables! This brochure never ends ~
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New Vari-Front panels, 11 gals used, and now no more gravity drain! Don't be Swtiched from the Best - KitchenAid.
Ben
New Vari-Front panels, 11 gals used, and now no more gravity drain! Don't be Swtiched from the Best - KitchenAid.
Ben
Awesome Scans
Thank you so much.
I enjoyed them!
Thank you so much.
I enjoyed them!
vintagesearch
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was kitchenaid a seperate company from whirlpool back then?
it sort of seems that way, when did whirlpool buy or join forces with kitchenaid? i dont really know the story.... ;P
it sort of seems that way, when did whirlpool buy or join forces with kitchenaid? i dont really know the story.... ;P
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Wow, Thanks for the posts.
It is interesting in the final one the color choices. You have wood hue copper tone and edged colonial tone. And then there is brushed chrome and stainless steel. I don't see much difference between them. You would think they could have combined the primed finish front with the stainless steel trim kit to simplify things. I do like the Sunshine yellow or Harvest gold they are showing, but it wasn't an option, darn it.
It is interesting in the final one the color choices. You have wood hue copper tone and edged colonial tone. And then there is brushed chrome and stainless steel. I don't see much difference between them. You would think they could have combined the primed finish front with the stainless steel trim kit to simplify things. I do like the Sunshine yellow or Harvest gold they are showing, but it wasn't an option, darn it.
KitchenAid was owned by Hobart. Hobart made commercial food equipment--dishwasher, mixers, garbage disposers and the like. KitchenAid was the brand name for domestic (home market) dishwashers, mixers, and diposers. KitchenAid sold its domestic line and brand name to Whirlpool in 1985 or so. The 21 series was the first Whirlpool produced, but still looked pretty much like a KitchenAid from the old days. I just checked, an KUDS21 user manual had a copyright date of 9/87.
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I want the yellow one on the last scan and then i want the bol top loading portable tyvm
varicyclevoice
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Here is a brochure for just the KDI-15
front
front
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Imperial KDI-15 back
backside
backside
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I have a brochure for the KD-16 series:
front
front
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KD-16
page 1
page 1
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KD-16
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page 2
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KD-16
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page 3
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KD-16
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page 4
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KD-16
back
back
danemodsandy
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Ben and washertalk:
Ben:
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I've been looking for this brochure for some time, and here it is, for free! I really appreciate your sharing this.
washertalk:
The reason for offering both brushed chrome and stainless was that appliances made of both materials were offered back then, and the two metals are of slightly different colours. Chrome has a bluish cast, and stainless is a bit more brown. Brushed chrome was a slightly cheaper alternative to stainless used by a lot of manufacturers back then. Given that KitchenAid was marketed to a more upscale (read: pickier) consumer, it made sense to offer a match for both materials. Believe it or not, there are people who can spot the difference from thirty feet away, and there is no one more obsessive than someone building a high-end kitchen. Also, KitchenAid was likely to be specified by high-end architects, who are even more particular than most consumers. KitchenAid was the very best you could buy at that time; there was no competition from luxury imports like Asko or Bosch then.
Ben:
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I've been looking for this brochure for some time, and here it is, for free! I really appreciate your sharing this.
washertalk:
The reason for offering both brushed chrome and stainless was that appliances made of both materials were offered back then, and the two metals are of slightly different colours. Chrome has a bluish cast, and stainless is a bit more brown. Brushed chrome was a slightly cheaper alternative to stainless used by a lot of manufacturers back then. Given that KitchenAid was marketed to a more upscale (read: pickier) consumer, it made sense to offer a match for both materials. Believe it or not, there are people who can spot the difference from thirty feet away, and there is no one more obsessive than someone building a high-end kitchen. Also, KitchenAid was likely to be specified by high-end architects, who are even more particular than most consumers. KitchenAid was the very best you could buy at that time; there was no competition from luxury imports like Asko or Bosch then.
stevet
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Setting the record Straight!
Just for the record. The 21 series machines were originally produced by Hobart and were still in production when Whirlpool bought Kitchen AId from Hobart. At the time Dart and Kraft and their bean counters did anything they could to get their investment back from the 400 million dollar purchase of Hobart in the early 80's. Much of what they started was beneficial to Hobart in terms of modernizing the company. However, when Whirlpool offered them 200 million for the product line, they seemed to have no reservations about it save the request to hold on to the "SUPERBA" name which Whirlpool did not go along with.
The 21 series represented a major investment in terms of technology and was a fantastic machine. It retained all the high quality characteristics of the typical Hobart machines save for a cut down tank frame/support and eventually they went to a vendor supplied motor(emerson) rather than builing it in house but that probably actually started when Whirpool took over production of the model.
While there seems to have been so many advances in the dishwashing products we have on the market today, why are there so many complaints from owners of every brand about how poorly their machines perform than from those who have the more vintage machines be they K/A's or KM's or some of the maytags?
And Like Toggleswitch said in another post.. what good is all this water savings if you have to wash the dishes either beforehand or twice just to get the left over debris off the dishes? I nevr had to do that with any of my Kitchenaids and I have had very model they made from the KD10's thru the KD22's.
I am scarded to install the new machine I have sitting in the box in the garage for fear of getting the worst results ever!
Just for the record. The 21 series machines were originally produced by Hobart and were still in production when Whirlpool bought Kitchen AId from Hobart. At the time Dart and Kraft and their bean counters did anything they could to get their investment back from the 400 million dollar purchase of Hobart in the early 80's. Much of what they started was beneficial to Hobart in terms of modernizing the company. However, when Whirlpool offered them 200 million for the product line, they seemed to have no reservations about it save the request to hold on to the "SUPERBA" name which Whirlpool did not go along with.
The 21 series represented a major investment in terms of technology and was a fantastic machine. It retained all the high quality characteristics of the typical Hobart machines save for a cut down tank frame/support and eventually they went to a vendor supplied motor(emerson) rather than builing it in house but that probably actually started when Whirpool took over production of the model.
While there seems to have been so many advances in the dishwashing products we have on the market today, why are there so many complaints from owners of every brand about how poorly their machines perform than from those who have the more vintage machines be they K/A's or KM's or some of the maytags?
And Like Toggleswitch said in another post.. what good is all this water savings if you have to wash the dishes either beforehand or twice just to get the left over debris off the dishes? I nevr had to do that with any of my Kitchenaids and I have had very model they made from the KD10's thru the KD22's.
I am scarded to install the new machine I have sitting in the box in the garage for fear of getting the worst results ever!
To swetoyz et al
Thank you for scanning and posting these sheets. I live for this stuff.
Thank you for scanning and posting these sheets. I live for this stuff.
Hobart commercial mixer
Many moons ago, I worked for Pizza Hut as a "rover" (an employee that would go to different locations as needed to cover wherever a unit was short-handed that night). Every Hut had a massive Hobart mixer. It sat on the floor, and it had a huge turned-aluminum bowl that would easily hold two 50-lb. bags of flour. They were used to mix pizza dough. The dough hook probably weighed 15 lbs by itself. They'd go through a bowl of flour like it was nothing, and easily whip around huge sticky globs of mixed dough. I never saw one break down or have any kind of malfunction.
The motors were powered with a 208Y supply, probably around 4 HP would be my guess (I don't remember for sure). The gear train looked like an automotive transmission. It had a lot of inertia. One day, a lady I knew was mixing dough, and when she turned off the mixer, she was in just a bit too much of a hurry and she tried to reach in and start pulling dough out before the mechanism had stopped. Just the inertia of the coasting mechanism broke her arm!
Many moons ago, I worked for Pizza Hut as a "rover" (an employee that would go to different locations as needed to cover wherever a unit was short-handed that night). Every Hut had a massive Hobart mixer. It sat on the floor, and it had a huge turned-aluminum bowl that would easily hold two 50-lb. bags of flour. They were used to mix pizza dough. The dough hook probably weighed 15 lbs by itself. They'd go through a bowl of flour like it was nothing, and easily whip around huge sticky globs of mixed dough. I never saw one break down or have any kind of malfunction.
The motors were powered with a 208Y supply, probably around 4 HP would be my guess (I don't remember for sure). The gear train looked like an automotive transmission. It had a lot of inertia. One day, a lady I knew was mixing dough, and when she turned off the mixer, she was in just a bit too much of a hurry and she tried to reach in and start pulling dough out before the mechanism had stopped. Just the inertia of the coasting mechanism broke her arm!
irishwashguy
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OMG! That first page is my Grandmothers Dishwasher
In deorator copertone no less! I always wondered why the knob was on the bottom on those dishwashers, I guess that when you have two selections, that would be why.She had an Imperial, For that matter, both my Grandmas' had an Imperial.I see alot of those at Estate sales here in Portland, almost every house, they were very popular in the day.They have that classic KitchenAid sound to them. I am lucky enough to have one! They never die, just get emptied and ran and ran again!
In deorator copertone no less! I always wondered why the knob was on the bottom on those dishwashers, I guess that when you have two selections, that would be why.She had an Imperial, For that matter, both my Grandmas' had an Imperial.I see alot of those at Estate sales here in Portland, almost every house, they were very popular in the day.They have that classic KitchenAid sound to them. I am lucky enough to have one! They never die, just get emptied and ran and ran again!
Here is my KDS-55
This must have been a later production model as this one has woodgrain on the panel - earlier would have been the beige trims.
This must have been a later production model as this one has woodgrain on the panel - earlier would have been the beige trims.
This load's for you Bob!!
I'm in the process of washing every dish I own as we're (hopefully) finished with the worst of the drywall & floor dust from the kitchen remodel project. The entire house was covered in the fine dust!
I'm in the process of washing every dish I own as we're (hopefully) finished with the worst of the drywall & floor dust from the kitchen remodel project. The entire house was covered in the fine dust!
KDS-56
I think I have the 16 series brochure around somewhere, but it's easier to post a picture of the actual machine. I found this last fall at an estate sale - in mint condition, hardly used at all.
I think I have the 16 series brochure around somewhere, but it's easier to post a picture of the actual machine. I found this last fall at an estate sale - in mint condition, hardly used at all.
More dirty dishes for mommy!
Here is the inside - next load is ready and waiting it's turn in line.
Notice this one does not have the corner splash guards on the lower rack - those came a little later in the 16's run.
Here is the inside - next load is ready and waiting it's turn in line.
Notice this one does not have the corner splash guards on the lower rack - those came a little later in the 16's run.
Our KDI-17a didn't have splash guards on the lower rack. Never saw those until I got my KUDS-22.
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