P.O.D. 12/30/2014

[toploader55]

I remember reading this ad in my Mom's Good Housekeeping or McCall's.

I always thought Kelvinator's Agitators looked out of the ordinary.

The Squiggle line on the left hand side I understood but never the round circle with the arrow until I came along to AW.org.

It wasn't until I came here and saw the evolution of the ABC machines principle agitation brought along to Kelvinator.

I love the action and the "Splashyness" of the wash and rinse action.

Why was this type of transmission and action abandoned ? Was it poor reliability or no one understood it ?

Did it clean effectively as it clamed ?

 

[tomturbomatic]

The washing action was a testament to the various ideas that came to inventers in the early days of appliance making. There was no transmission, just two pulleys under the tub. The agitator was set off center on one of the pulleys to give the "X-centric" washing action. The other pulley was the spin pulley. Designing a tub boot in the days before all of the chemical improvements in rubber and rubber-like products was probably a challenge. The huge size of the agitator in relation to the tub meant that capacity was not large, but it washed standard loads for the time. Like many solid tub machines, they had to be redesigned out of existence when capacity was increased. The original rubber-finned agitators would remove buttons from shirts. When I saw my first Kelvinator in 1958, I thought the agitator just turned back and forth and had no idea of its true action, but with those big fins, I thought it must stir up some turbulence.

 

[twintubdexter]

If two of those machines were sitting next to each other on the sales floor and the only difference was that one of them said "Golden Touch" on the front and was $50 more I'd buy that one. I'm every salesperson's dream dummy customer. 

 

[peteski50]

Kelvinator!

I would definatly take the one with the window!