Spin Cycle

Wringerless drying technology released the operator from handling water-laden items. The Wringerless Savage Washer & Dryer, Savage Arms Corp., Utica, New York, 1927 (HSKP S2643 3004).

Early examples of spin-dry technology appeared in the mid-1910s. In these devices, the user engaged the spinning of the perforated tub that contained the clothes. However, for decades the efficiency of the spin-dry technology was limited. Until the 1950s, motors in washers operated at one speed only: a speed defined by the requirements of the wash cycle rather than those of the spin (840716). The centrifugal force required to remove water from clothes demanded that the motor spin at a much faster rate than was needed by the wash cycle. The introduction of the two-speed motor solved the problem in the early 1960s (870246).