In today's P.O.D. it mentions an "in agitator bleach dispenser". I've never seen or heard of that before. Agitator mounted softener of course we've all seen those...but a bleach dispenser? How did that work? I know some of those machines had a lid mounted dispenser. Is this what they are referring to?
Today's P.O.D. 12/16/13 Agitator bleach dispenser?
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turquoisedude
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I've never seen the Hotpoint version, but older Frigidaires (like my '63 Deluxe) had a cup that you poured bleach into and it would dilute and dispense at the pulsator did it's thing.
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Here's a link to another Hotpoint Lady Executive thread, I think it's the best description and pics we have on this model. Check out a few of the pics, some show a small plastic thing inside the lid, one pic shows a decent sized plastic box attached to the lid. And near the box, above the rim of the tub, cut through the porcelain, is an opening. Did incoming water come from there, thru the lid-attached dispensers, into the wash or agitator? I DON"T have answers, I am reading the other thread as I post this--
It would be cool to have this BRAND NEW or watch it a few times, but ain't it a few notches over the top? I'd never want to restore one.
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?48097
Here's a link to another Hotpoint Lady Executive thread, I think it's the best description and pics we have on this model. Check out a few of the pics, some show a small plastic thing inside the lid, one pic shows a decent sized plastic box attached to the lid. And near the box, above the rim of the tub, cut through the porcelain, is an opening. Did incoming water come from there, thru the lid-attached dispensers, into the wash or agitator? I DON"T have answers, I am reading the other thread as I post this--
It would be cool to have this BRAND NEW or watch it a few times, but ain't it a few notches over the top? I'd never want to restore one.
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?48097
I think the in agitator bleach dispenser worked in conjunction with the filter fountain system that was like a burp-o-lator in that the innards of the agitator pumped water during agitation. It delivered water to the lint filter and might have diluted and dispensed bleach.
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Could this be what is being referred to as an agitator beach dispenser?
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Could this be what is being referred to as an agitator beach dispenser?
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Tom is right, on the upper-end models, there was a cup inside the top of the agitator (similar to Frigidaire) that held the bleach until the agitation started and the cup was flooded and overflowed, dispensing the bleach. The agitator "cap" had a perforated center where the bleach was poured in, probably prior to loading the clothes. Similarly, the ring dispenser "Fountain" pictured directly above dispensed when the pumping of the agitator began and water flooded the ring.
Out on the Sacred Appliance burial grounds in South Dakota, there were many Hotpoints with the various agitators and dispensers. We should have taken more of those parts!
Out on the Sacred Appliance burial grounds in South Dakota, there were many Hotpoints with the various agitators and dispensers. We should have taken more of those parts!
Yeah, you sure should have, Greg! (ducking....running)
Hotpoint was marketing 3 different types of bleach dispenser in the late 60's/ early seventies. One of them was the accessory pictured in the ad above. That one was short-lived and for some bizarre reason was made specifically for the Lady Executive model that had a wonderful solenoid system of dispensers for dry detergent and liquid fabric softener built into the top of the machine. I don't know what Hotpoint was thinking...the lint filter on the agitator was already a perfectly viable detergent dispenser; the bleach dispenser on this model should have also been a solenoid classic type and should have been put there instead.
What Tom was describing, very accurately, was a complicated system connected to the Hotpoint "Fountain Filter" built into their agitators that worked essentially the same way the Frigidaire Jet-Cone bleach dispensers worked, the user poured measured liquid bleach into an opening at the top of the agitator, wash water would flood the reservoir holding the bleach when agitation started, and then allowed the bleach/water mixture to overflow into the wash tub. It did the job, but Consumers Reports condemned the Hotpoint dispenser by pointing out that if, IF, sand were to get into the works it would require a service call, or a very long and complicated disassembly by the owner of the machine. If that wasn't enough, the unbiased technicians at CU broke down the whole agitator (the bleach cup is the clear plastic thing on the left) and photographed it for dramatic scare effect (boy, somebody was in a BAD mood back in 1969):
Hotpoint was marketing 3 different types of bleach dispenser in the late 60's/ early seventies. One of them was the accessory pictured in the ad above. That one was short-lived and for some bizarre reason was made specifically for the Lady Executive model that had a wonderful solenoid system of dispensers for dry detergent and liquid fabric softener built into the top of the machine. I don't know what Hotpoint was thinking...the lint filter on the agitator was already a perfectly viable detergent dispenser; the bleach dispenser on this model should have also been a solenoid classic type and should have been put there instead.
What Tom was describing, very accurately, was a complicated system connected to the Hotpoint "Fountain Filter" built into their agitators that worked essentially the same way the Frigidaire Jet-Cone bleach dispensers worked, the user poured measured liquid bleach into an opening at the top of the agitator, wash water would flood the reservoir holding the bleach when agitation started, and then allowed the bleach/water mixture to overflow into the wash tub. It did the job, but Consumers Reports condemned the Hotpoint dispenser by pointing out that if, IF, sand were to get into the works it would require a service call, or a very long and complicated disassembly by the owner of the machine. If that wasn't enough, the unbiased technicians at CU broke down the whole agitator (the bleach cup is the clear plastic thing on the left) and photographed it for dramatic scare effect (boy, somebody was in a BAD mood back in 1969):
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check this out from the Shoppers Square forum
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?49821_2#bott
check this out from the Shoppers Square forum
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?49821_2#bott
Ken, I think that solenoid-release detergent dispenser in the lid was for adding fresh detergent to the second wash, if selected, or to the main wash after the automatic advance into same after the soak cycle. A Lady Executive's life is complicated.
About the only thing CU did not criticize about that agitator was that it used two different length screws. Being a solid tub machine, though, it was probably more likely to have sand get sucked into the filter fountain Thriftivator than if it were in a perforated tub machine. You could probably kill it by washing a load of throw rugs. I try to vacuum and shake my rugs before washing, but I swear the bottom of the laundry sink looks like a creek bed with all of the sand that comes out of the SQ FL. I now put a 5 gallon bucket into the sink to act as a settling basin for the sand when I wash rugs then I pour it back outside to maintain the balance of nature. I wonder how much stringy lint was caught by those holes near the base.
About the only thing CU did not criticize about that agitator was that it used two different length screws. Being a solid tub machine, though, it was probably more likely to have sand get sucked into the filter fountain Thriftivator than if it were in a perforated tub machine. You could probably kill it by washing a load of throw rugs. I try to vacuum and shake my rugs before washing, but I swear the bottom of the laundry sink looks like a creek bed with all of the sand that comes out of the SQ FL. I now put a 5 gallon bucket into the sink to act as a settling basin for the sand when I wash rugs then I pour it back outside to maintain the balance of nature. I wonder how much stringy lint was caught by those holes near the base.
You're right; I forgot about that.
I wouldn't have ever even considered washing anything that heavy duty in a Taylor Avenue Hotpoint; the machine would have died of a stroke. As I've said before in other threads about Hotpoints, they were probably very decent machines if you washed light to medium loads as my Mother's mother did. Hotpoints were definitely NOT good choices for farm families or all those families featured in Norge and/or Whirlpool ads of the time.
We had a solid tub Filter-Flo at a beach house when I was growing up and I don't ever remember seeing sand in the bottom of that tub.
I wouldn't have ever even considered washing anything that heavy duty in a Taylor Avenue Hotpoint; the machine would have died of a stroke. As I've said before in other threads about Hotpoints, they were probably very decent machines if you washed light to medium loads as my Mother's mother did. Hotpoints were definitely NOT good choices for farm families or all those families featured in Norge and/or Whirlpool ads of the time.
We had a solid tub Filter-Flo at a beach house when I was growing up and I don't ever remember seeing sand in the bottom of that tub.
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