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Does anyone remember these. I think my Mom's '63 70 series dryer had one of these under the lint trap door. I remember it was a brown bottle with a rubber hose on it. What were these for??
 
What were these for??

That was liquid air freshner......it was supposed to make the clothes being dryed smell fresh and sweet....my mom got the same dryer your mom had (plus the matching washer) when she aqnd my dad were married in 1963 and I hope to have a set of these machines someday too......PAT COFFEY

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Thank you

We had the matching washer, they were great machines even thought the out-of-balance buzzer scared me to death everytime it went off!! Loved the lighted dials!!
 
The Model 70 was my parents first automatic washer. It was the worst one they had. In 5 years time, a motor, timer control and 2 water pumps had to be replaced. Luckily my Dad was an auto mechanic and did the repairs himself. They never bought a Sears product again. lol

They then purchased a Rapid Dry 1000 then a 1-18 after that.
 
I have several dryers that still have these bottles in them. On my 65 800 dryer, which has almost never been used, the bottle is still full. Never tried to smell it after all these years though.

Gordon
 
Stinky Air Freshener

My god that stuff is so horrid I used to deal with those stupid bottles all the time in the 70s.You get that stuff on you and you will never get it off, you would rather be sprayed by a skunk.Whenever I used to get those dryers years ago I would carefully remove the bottle with needlenose pliers and put it in a plastic bag and seal it.You spill that stuff you would want to call a hazmat team.Ten times worse than any worse Aunts perfume.We should shoot that stuff at the Taliban.
 
Doesn't it smell so bad because it's super concentrated? When you dry a load of laundry in the dryer only a small amount it used. What do clothes smell like after being dried in one of these dryers? Or at least what were they supposed to smell like?
 
Stink!

Dont'ask, don't tell, we probably would'nt be able to bear the smell! I never had any opportunity to smell this stuff, and I am a BIG "smeller", I smell everything!
 
kenmore dryer air-freshener

 Good for you Hans, I too liked the smell of the KM dryer air-freshener, now maybe all the air-fresheners fans will come out of the closet LOL.

 

Dave yes this was a KM only feature, GE also had a few different air-freshener systems on its dryers starting around 1957 and ending around 1965 ?. Does anyone know of any other companies that had any air-freshener systems on thier dryers ?. I do have a JENN-AIR down-draft ductless electric range that uses the same air-freshener bottles that the KM dryers used. This is the range that we were cooking on during the open warehouse party last fall.
 
Have to confess here as well, I liked the smell and it was something that we did replace when needed.  I always thought it had a clean smell.  
 
1965...and the dawn of dryer sheets, anyone know??

so...were dryer sheets invented in latter part of the 60's, or more like the 70's? Seems like many Americans want to add something (!) to their clean wash...LOL.
 
I liked them too

I thought they were a nice scent, and I even have one that still is like a half of bottle. I will admit that the concentrate though is very strong and little putting off, but a tiny amount on your clothes wouldn't smell bad to me.
 
Does anyone know where the hose connects to? I can't find it for the life of me, I'm almost done putting it together, and that, plus a brass metal strap are driving me to fits.
 
The bottle of air freshener on our 1960 Model 80 Kenmore dryer was in the console. You'd flip the top and there it was. It did smell pretty horrible in its super-concentrated form, but was very pleasant on the load of clothes. I want to say there was a level on the console that let you turn on/off/adjust the level of the air freshener, but that might have been on the '59 Lady Kenmore.
 
Where does the other end of those hose go to I mean? I thought it would attach to some sort of nipple, but then again I don't think it would attach to the heating element part. I was feeling around the vent but didn't find anything to stick the hose onto. It's not a particularly long hose either.
 
Shoot, I can't remember where that went when my 65 Lady K got converted from gas to electricity...  I have a feeling it just vents into the dryer drum like the 57 GE Clothes Conditioner does.
 
Kenmore and GE

I have a 65 or so Kenmore dryer with a bottle, and a 66 GE dryer with more of a capsule than a bottle----the hoses on both simply drop a few inches down the back of the drums rear exterior, sort of in the overall cabinet air that gets sucked into the heater and drum. It's very indirect scenting as opposed to directly into the drum. Gee, I wonder why everyone stopped that brilliant idea?
 
akronman I found where the hose connects. Your hoses are disconnected I believe! turquoisedude gave me the idea to look in the drum, and I wanted to change the bulb anyway so I took the cover off and I saw a round hole around the edge. I went to the back and looked. Sure enough there's a nipple sticking out of the plastic light bulb housing that the hose attaches to! It must not draw much scent in as the cover fits over it. I'm fairly certain it goes there, it's a perfect fit.
 
Air-Freshener On KM Dryers, Built By WP

All had a little nipple where the hose attached to the rear drum bulkhead which provided a direct connection into the air in the drum area, because of the design of all WP built dryers the air in the drum was at a lower pressure which would cause the fragrance to be drawn into the drums air-stream.

 

John L.
 
Wow that must have been the source of the great scent that gently blew from my next door neighbor's dryer vent while I was growing up. They had a 1966 800 Kenmore set, and the aroma was heavenly. It was the perfect compliment to the equally heavenly whir of the dryer motor, which had a steady woooo sound.
 
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