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.
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