Clothes wringer

Object/Artifact

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Clothes wringer

Entry/Object ID

SS.62.395

Description

Clothes wringing machine: over board base, and between two uprights at ends, two rollers; top roller is solid wood, horizontally fluted, and is attached at one end to iron crank with wooden handle; lower roller, in close proximity to upper, is formed of 6 pieces, each with 2 horizontally raised areas, joined together at each end by chain-like series of brass hooks and eyes, giving the whole the appearance at a distance of one roller similar to that at the top of the machine; action initiated by turning of crank serves to wring.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Notes

Dates: 1834 - 1867 Date made: r. 1834 - 1867

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

8-1/2 in

Width

28-1/4 in

Depth

10-1/4 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 28 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (21.6 x 71.8 x 26 cm)

Material

Maple, brass, Iron

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Miscellaneous: This piece of laundry equipment has been termed a "fluter" on occasion. However, fluters, or fluting or crimping machines, along with goffering machines, and the "Italian" iron, were all made of iron, and heated as a necessary preamble to their successful use in the pressing of pleats, etc. As this object has rollers of wood, it is apparent that it was never used as a fluter...

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Sunnyside, Laundry