WASHING MACHINE. METAL, ETC. SKRAT, MODEL P-7, LEONARD RYZNAR, CIRCA 1945.
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Reference: ZF0413
Washing machine. Metal, etc. SKRAT, model P-7, Leonard Ryznar, circa 1945. Metal washing machine with an electric motor that would drive a circular container (which moves the clothes, a “drum”), with a water inlet at the bottom to the right and with several valves and levers, as well as four circular base legs. to better support the ground and prevent, as far as possible, the machine from moving when it was in operation. Leonard Ryznar (or Rýznar) was the founder of the Skrat company, which made several models similar to the present one, very popular among those who could afford them in certain areas of Europe in the 20th century. As indicated on the aircraft itself, it is the P-7 model, produced around 1945. Towards the beginning of the 19th century, several “machines” were developed for washing clothes, consisting of a wooden box in which the clothes were placed and a manually operated system that moved them. Another variant was those that had a drum in which the clothes were pressed. clothes to wring them out. Electric washing machines were not created until the beginning of the 20th century (these appliances were already being advertised in the United States in 1904; apparently, the first one in Europe appeared somewhat later), becoming a mass appliance from the end of the 1900s onwards. from the 1940s to the early 1950s, and in Western Europe developed into an everyday appliance from about 1960.
· Size: 96x64x82 cms.
1.000 €
