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Thread Number: 70539
/ Tag: Classified Ad Finds
Vintage Monitor Jet dryer, Hattiesburg, MS |
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Post# 934651 4/26/2017 at 10:46 (2,554 days old) by spacepig  (Floridas Emerald Coast) |
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Looks like it's listed on craigslist as well as e-bay.
hattiesburg.craigslist.org/app/6... E-bay listing has ended, but it doesn't look like it sold: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-195...
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Post# 934804 , Reply# 1 4/26/2017 at 20:32 (2,554 days old) by Kenmore58 (Rhode Island) |
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Post# 934901 , Reply# 2 4/27/2017 at 07:10 (2,553 days old) by spacepig (Floridas Emerald Coast) |
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Post# 934955 , Reply# 3 4/27/2017 at 15:55 (2,553 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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As usual for Monitor
This dryer was "borrowed" from another maker; Flatley IIRC.
www.adverts.ie/other-antiques-col... www.1900s.org.uk/1950s-60s-flatle... These units were compact versions of larger drying cabinets found on estate homes, apartment buildings, or large laundries. You hung the washing on racks and via convection (heating elements located on bottom of unit) warm air would dry things. This was opposed to hanging one's washing on a horse or all over the house till it dried. Two things helped kill off demand for these drying cabinets; tumble dryers and better indoor (central) heating. The first is self explanatory, but second was that in days before central heating you hung wash on a horse in front of a source of heat (fire, range, etc...) if it couldn't be dried out of doors. Once you got indoor central heating you could in theory hang wash anywhere on a horse or whatever. Coupled with washing machines that extracted more water out of clothing than a wringer, you needed less energy to dry things, so even hanging they dried quicker. These small cabinet dryers were also dangerous. If something fell to bottom or even touched it for prolonged periods it could scorch or even catch fire. Given the lint that comes off washing you also had to keep the area around elements clean of fluff as well. | ||
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Post# 935033 , Reply# 4 4/27/2017 at 23:17 (2,553 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Monitor Jet dryer!
I was trying to figure out for years how this worked. Now I see from viewing the Flatley. Seems like a good idea but doesnt look like you could put large bath towels across those rods. It would be nice if they made a larger unit. I think it would take off today if they were made larger and with more safety features.
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Post# 935050 , Reply# 5 4/28/2017 at 02:04 (2,552 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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But they did!
Staber, Asko, Maytag and a few others offered or are still offering drying cabinets.
www.amazon.com/Staber-Ind... www.asko.com.au/products/laundry-... www.maytag.co.uk/product/laundry-... | ||
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Post# 935110 , Reply# 6 4/28/2017 at 08:30 (2,552 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Drying Cabinets! | ||
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Post# 935155 , Reply# 7 4/28/2017 at 15:01 (2,552 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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I remember seeing the 49 Antique & Flea Market when I was down there the last time. Didn't stop as I wasn't feeling well that day. | ||
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Post# 935184 , Reply# 8 4/28/2017 at 18:20 (2,552 days old) by spacepig (Floridas Emerald Coast) |
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Launderess, | ||
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Post# 935189 , Reply# 9 4/28/2017 at 19:00 (2,552 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Asko drying cabient sold in USA
Ran on 120v power.
www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin... So does the Staber: www.amazon.com/Staber-Ind... Maytag offered a "Neptune" drying cabinet that was built on top of a tumble dryer. The upper dryer ran on 120v power as well. www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin... You don't really need a lot of heat for these drying cabinets, hence the ones seen so far have no more heating power than those compact/portable dryers Whirlpool has been making for generations. Mind you it likely would take many hours to "hang dry" something thick, heavy and very wet in one of these units. Again which is why one assumes they really didn't catch on. I mean you can buy a portable laundry maid/horse, hang up one's wash and let it dry merely by the heat already in your home, and it would be dry in about the same time. Better still you aren't using electricity. If worse came to the worse you could turn on a fan to circulate air, but even then you would be using less electricity than one of these cabinets. Again these drying cabinets were designed after the vintage ones from years ago that solved a problem *before* tumble dryers were invented. How to dry laundry when weather outside was not the best. And to avoid having wet laundry (and the moisture it created as drying) mucking up indoor air, especially during cold and damp months. lacqueredlife.com/laundry-with-ma... | ||
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Post# 935194 , Reply# 10 4/28/2017 at 19:34 (2,552 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Back in the early 60's we had the matching Monitor washer here, motor pooched and my grandmothers round late 50's Maytag was brought here and the tranny seized on it a few years ago on me. Still here if anyone here wants it to bring back, not scrap, you can have it. The people that gave us the Monitor washer had the same dryer and said the dryer was more work than it was worth.
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Post# 935265 , Reply# 11 4/29/2017 at 08:15 (2,551 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Voila!
This website has everything!
www.automatice.org/cgi-bin/index.... www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T... Seems was mistaken. These "jet" dryers were called so because they directed a warm air flow though the inside of cabinet. Probably like a hair dryer or some such appliance; air currents generated by a fan blew over a resistance heater then up into the cabinet. | ||
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Post# 935315 , Reply# 12 4/29/2017 at 14:53 (2,551 days old) by spacepig (Floridas Emerald Coast) |
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