Thread Number: 15627
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Post# 262482   1/31/2008 at 11:10 (5,901 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Now that's an interesting idea for a front loader, have a clothes chute extended outwards from the door to fill up with extra suds to try and prevent suds locks. I wonder if this would work? And would all those suds be blocking the door at the end of the cycle so the user would have to scoop them out by hand?
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Post# 262492 , Reply# 1   1/31/2008 at 11:42 (5,901 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 262496 , Reply# 2   1/31/2008 at 11:59 (5,901 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 262503 , Reply# 3   1/31/2008 at 12:43 (5,901 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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I love all these patents! I would think that the chute would fill up with suds, just like the drum and hinder washing action just as much as if they were locked into the drum by a standard door. Who knows? To this day, the "fallacy" of the suds doing the cleaning persists. HE detergents and machines have probably helped some, but is the public so dumb that they cannot learn that a "sudsy wash" is completely unnecessary? OK, don't answer that... |
Post# 262506 , Reply# 4   1/31/2008 at 13:02 (5,901 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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It looks very difficult to unload. |
Post# 262517 , Reply# 6   1/31/2008 at 13:27 (5,901 days old) by easyspindry (Winston-Salem, NC)   |   | |
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I've seen machines like this in coin-operated laundries, but for the life of me, I cannot remember the brand name of the machine. More memories. Jerry Gay |
Post# 262527 , Reply# 7   1/31/2008 at 14:01 (5,901 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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If I still had a straight front Westinghouse or White-Westinghouse front loader from the 80's or 90's it would be fun to try this. It would be very simple to build with some Plexiglas, rubber and close cell foam. Who knows, maybe it really works? We can't say anything for sure until we see it in action.
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Post# 262531 , Reply# 8   1/31/2008 at 14:17 (5,901 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 262556 , Reply# 10   1/31/2008 at 16:09 (5,900 days old) by hilovane (Columbus OH)   |   | |
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It's interesting to note that the patent(s) dated 1968, and 1970. I remember seeing these machines in launderettes as early as 1963. |
Post# 262566 , Reply# 11   1/31/2008 at 16:28 (5,900 days old) by pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 262686 , Reply# 12   12/31/2069 at 18:00 (19,810 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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