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Thread Number: 758
The Ultimate in Washday Drama |
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Post# 51107 12/15/2004 at 08:55 (7,069 days old) by Unimatic1140  (Minneapolis) |
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Today’s PAT is a nifty little design, engineered by Frigidaire in the mid 50’s. They designed another Unimatic style transmission but with some major changes. The wash tub wobbles at 300 wpm (wobbles per minute)! Then at the very same time the wash tub slowly rotates in the opposite direction of the wobbling at 60rpm. The agitator rotates slowly with the tub but does not wobble. Why bring the agitator to and fro the tub when you can bring the tub to and fro the agitator! Can you imagine what must go on in there during the wash cycle? If that wasn’t enough, after the wash cycle is completed the washer pauses and goes into spin. But like a Unimatic, the spin system is direct driven from the motor shaft which means it spins at 1140 rpm! I wonder if they ever built a prototype of this machine. YAY for dreams. | ||
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| Post# 51116 , Reply# 1 12/15/2004 at 11:50 (7,069 days old) by tlee618 () | ||
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Hi Robert! I love the Patent of the Day!! Wouldn't this have been a neat machine if they had gone forward with it!! | ||
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Post# 51119 , Reply# 2 12/15/2004 at 12:00 (7,069 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 51124 , Reply# 3 12/15/2004 at 14:13 (7,069 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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I'm not an engineer (toot!! toot!!) but I'd think there would be much more strain on the mechanisms wobbling a tub full of water/clothes than moving an agitator up/down. Or don't I know enough about how these things work? Definitely a cool idea, though. Wonder what made them abandon the idea in the end? | ||
| Post# 51137 , Reply# 4 12/15/2004 at 18:48 (7,069 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
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