These mention a soft food disposer. Were they the first to have that feature after the stainless steel impeller machines of the late 50s? I notice that the 1050 model had a thermal delay to 145F for heavy soil washing, like the Whirlpool, D&M and some other dishwashers while the 950 just extended the wash into the first rinse period to give extra scrubbing like the run of the mill GE potsmasher machines albeit with the advanced wash system with a spray arm under each rack.
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GE dishwasher soft disposer systems
GE had a small stainless steel grinder starting with the horizontal motor dishwashers around 1967, the thing to emphasize is that it is truly just a soft food disposer. It was very easy to have problems with this flimsy disposer blade when it got glass or bit of plastic caught in it even my neighbor across the street regularly had to take the dishwasher apart when too many unpopped popcorn kernels got in the dishwasher and started to cause issues.
The earlier axial flow wash arm GE dishwashers had two little stainless steel rings that kind of ground up food as the food tried to get pulled into the main wash impeller to help break up bits of food and then like the later, just recirculated it through the arms and all over the dishwasher, there was no filter system, and either one of these designs.
John
GE had a small stainless steel grinder starting with the horizontal motor dishwashers around 1967, the thing to emphasize is that it is truly just a soft food disposer. It was very easy to have problems with this flimsy disposer blade when it got glass or bit of plastic caught in it even my neighbor across the street regularly had to take the dishwasher apart when too many unpopped popcorn kernels got in the dishwasher and started to cause issues.
The earlier axial flow wash arm GE dishwashers had two little stainless steel rings that kind of ground up food as the food tried to get pulled into the main wash impeller to help break up bits of food and then like the later, just recirculated it through the arms and all over the dishwasher, there was no filter system, and either one of these designs.
John
Thanks, John.
Our stainless steel impeller machine did not distribute food particles all over the load so it must have ground things better and it had the more positive draining-flushing action with the brief activation of the fill valve at the end of the drain periods which completely emptied the sump.
Our stainless steel impeller machine did not distribute food particles all over the load so it must have ground things better and it had the more positive draining-flushing action with the brief activation of the fill valve at the end of the drain periods which completely emptied the sump.
rinso
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GE learned that many cycles of water (i.e. Wash, Rinse, Rinse, Wash, Rinse, Rinse) helped keep from redepositing of food particles in their machines with no filter.
Many cycles of water would have been much more effective if the pump chamber did not hold a quart of water after each drain. The pump was not like most pumps with the sides of the impeller meeting the sides of the pump chamber but more like the dasher in a churn whipping up a torrent in the pump as long as it was mostly full, but all force was lost when most of the water dropped below the impeller. Then the water and debris fell to the bottom of the chamber. Later some of the machines had an auxiliary pump the was energized at the end of a couple of drains to empty the pump chamber. Our GE Mobile Maid impeller machine offered 5 or 6 water changes, but it completely pumped out at each drain and even energized the fill valve to provide a brief fill to flush the pump except after the final rinse.
