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Thread Number: 66001
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
'59-'61 Lady Kenmore One-Touch Cycle Selection: Original Design? |
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Post# 885650 6/17/2016 at 04:27 (2,870 days old) by Frigilux  (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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I picked up the May 1959 issue of Electrical Merchandising Magazine that Robert uploaded to Automatic Ephemera a few days ago. One of the many super-cool full-page ads was for Controls Company Of America, touting their new automatic cycle selection (rapid advance system) timers, which could be designed for many applications.
The application shown in the ad is obviously based on the then-new one-touch cycle selector used on the 1959 Lady Kenmore. While Kenmore went with a single large button that could be pressed at the top or the bottom to select the Heavy or Light Soil version of a cycle, the design shown in the ad is interesting, as well. Wonder if it was one of the styles Kenmore was considering? Have never seen this prototype before. The photo of the '59 Lady K console comes from Ben's (swestoyz) video of his machine. You can hear the awesome, percussive sound of the rapid advance timer setting up a cycle at 1:03. I grew up with the same system on a 1960 Model 80. Photo 1: Controls Company Of America ad in magazine Photo 2: Actual controls of the 1959 Lady Kenmore This post was last edited 06/17/2016 at 07:25 | ||
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Post# 885682 , Reply# 1 6/17/2016 at 08:38 (2,870 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Amazing technology for the age of the punch-card Wonderful thread.
Had my Father purchased that Kenmore set for our first house I would have been over-the-moon thrilled by the colored plastic keys, all the bells, whistles and mechanisms that I got to see in Ben's video, but my Mother would have demanded, DEMANDED, that he return the set to the store and bring her a machine that had virtually no options but wash, spin and rinse.
I don't know whether GE began this "one-button cycle selection" fad with their WA-950R model in 1958, but it's interesting that they stuck with a conventional switch system run through a traditional wash-cycle dial control while Sears and Maytag went all the way with these neat rapid-advance timers. I always thought that the flaw in the Filter-Flo design was the lack of flexibility in the cycle choice until they addressed that in the late Sixties. Plus, they just missed the "neat-O, Wow!" appeal of an exotic all-pushbutton machine. | ||
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Post# 885694 , Reply# 2 6/17/2016 at 10:46 (2,870 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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One Button Washing Controls Corporation built this system for KM, Hotpoint and Westinghouse's L-1000 washer that also came out in 1959. I never saw a HP washer with this feature. We have the 59 LKM and the L-1000 at the museum.
Maytag did the same thing by working with the timer maker PR Mallory, to my knowledge these were the only four washer brands to ever offer anything like this till electronic washers came out in the late 70s.
John L. | ||
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Post# 885706 , Reply# 3 6/17/2016 at 11:45 (2,870 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Machine in question Was this that Hotpoint?
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Post# 885709 , Reply# 4 6/17/2016 at 11:50 (2,870 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 885760 , Reply# 5 6/17/2016 at 20:44 (2,869 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 885772 , Reply# 6 6/17/2016 at 22:24 (2,869 days old) by MixGuy (St. Martinville, Louisiana) | ||
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Sears Push Button Washer a cousin of mine had the Sears Push button washer and matching dryer and it was in use for at least 18 years without a repair to the washer and the dryer had the heating element changed once. | ||
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Post# 885803 , Reply# 8 6/18/2016 at 04:54 (2,869 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 885988 , Reply# 11 6/19/2016 at 08:31 (2,868 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Suds-Saver-Option-Switch Hi Tom, I do seem to recall a high-end or TOL Kenmore around 1957-8 that had a toggle switch labeled [ suds O matic On-Off ] that allowed you to turn off the Two-Way valve thus allowing all the waste water to drain out the rinse drain hose.
But other these models the only KM-WP washers that had a separate switch for the SS were these TOL LKMS from 59-62 that had this three function Suds-Saver control switch. On the 59-62s this switch was labeled Save-Drain-Return when you swing the switch to return it started the rapid-advance timer motor that advanced the timer to the suds return position and the machine would start returning the suds water in the holding tub back into the washer. After the water returned you then could select any cycle you wanted and the washer would on through the cycle.
John L. | ||
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Post# 886032 , Reply# 13 6/19/2016 at 15:53 (2,867 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA ) |
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another ad...
For the Hotpoint Touch Command...has anyone found these?
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