I remember this clear demonstration cabinet. It was in the left front window of our Economy Auto Store with a red neon tube glowing in a circle at the front. It had clothes in it. The most dramatic sighting of this was one Saturday night in the winter. All of the stores had closed and it was dark at about 6 PM. We were in the car waiting for mom in the Krogers. The entire Economy Auto store was dark except for this dryer running with one overhead spotlight on it.
The feature about the filtered incoming air was in a sales book I browsed in a hardware store or some other place where appliances were not at the forefront of the male sales staff's interest. They had a table with all of the brands of dryers and where the air intake was located. If it was at or near the floor, they made a big deal about how dirty air was being sucked in and blown through the clean clothes in the dryer. I am sure that most housewives loved hearing about the dust and dirt in their homes. The Maytag's air intake was higher on the back of the cabinet and, as was mentioned under the features, was pulled through the cabinet before passing over the heating element to air cool the cabinet somewhat.
The sad thing was that Maytag continued to use up the old wide cabinets for a dryer that would fit into a narrower cabinet. Maytag's older style dryer with the HUGE perforated drum was check rated by Consumer Reports, but the HOH never was. I don't know what they dried in 26 minutes, but it must have been something like a set of twin sheets because even with stuff spun in a 67 Frigidaire Imperial with Rapidry 1000, it took a long time to dry a load with that lower wattage heating element.
The feature about the filtered incoming air was in a sales book I browsed in a hardware store or some other place where appliances were not at the forefront of the male sales staff's interest. They had a table with all of the brands of dryers and where the air intake was located. If it was at or near the floor, they made a big deal about how dirty air was being sucked in and blown through the clean clothes in the dryer. I am sure that most housewives loved hearing about the dust and dirt in their homes. The Maytag's air intake was higher on the back of the cabinet and, as was mentioned under the features, was pulled through the cabinet before passing over the heating element to air cool the cabinet somewhat.
The sad thing was that Maytag continued to use up the old wide cabinets for a dryer that would fit into a narrower cabinet. Maytag's older style dryer with the HUGE perforated drum was check rated by Consumer Reports, but the HOH never was. I don't know what they dried in 26 minutes, but it must have been something like a set of twin sheets because even with stuff spun in a 67 Frigidaire Imperial with Rapidry 1000, it took a long time to dry a load with that lower wattage heating element.
