Wringer

     On the opposite page is a demonstration of some old time wash tubs, wash board and clothes wringer.

     Tubs, used for rinsing clothes after being washed in a washing machine, were made of galvanized steel with a squarish shape, and designed to hold clothes wringers clamped to them..

     To wring the water out of the clothes, the girl in the right foreground could, with her left hand, lift the clothes to be wrung, up out of the water, hold them before the two rolls of the wringer, and with her right hand turn the handle extending beyond the wringer.  This handle  would turn the lower rubber bar which would then turn the upper rubber bar.  The two bars, turning in opposite directions, would squeeze the water out of the clothes as they turned, pulling the cloth out of the nearest tub, into the more distant rinsing tub.

     On the left top side of the wringer is a screw which could be tightened or loosened to adjust the pressure between the two rollers, depending on need or desire.

     The girl on the right back ground has her hand on a release.  If clothes being wrung are too thick to be pulled through, a bang on the upper wringer will release the pressure.

     The girl on the left is examining a scrub board, a wooden frame which contains horizontal ridges of either glass or metal.  Very dirty clothes could be scrubbed against the ridges to loosen the dirt clinging to the cloth.  In use, this scrub board would not be used in a tub which received wrong-out clothes.