They’re called top-loaders and they’re so much less efficient that the Energy Star requirements straight up allow them to use more water than a front loader while still being called “high efficiency”.
Yes, as far as I know, all machines sold for domestic use here have drums aligned to the X-axis (top-loading with drum doors) or Z-axis (front-loading), never Y. I only saw a quick-spin-drying centrifuge in a swimming pool’s hair-drying room.
Edit: in engineering, I almost always see the Y axis as vertical. X is left-right and Z is backward (−)-forward (+) for a right-handed 3D Cartesian system. It’s also like this in Super Mario 64.
This is a top loading washer with a drum aligned in the Z-axis. Using your coordinate system, the Y-axis would be a front-loading washer that’s pointing a different direction.
My Y-axis is vertical, sorry for not having specified that. Looking for 3D Cartesian diagrams online, there is about an even split between XY being the horizontal plane and a vertical one.
Is that a washing machine with a vertical drum?
They’re called top-loaders and they’re so much less efficient that the Energy Star requirements straight up allow them to use more water than a front loader while still being called “high efficiency”.
Better for slam-dunking your clothes, as you can see.
Is that strange to you?
Yes, as far as I know, all machines sold for domestic use here have drums aligned to the X-axis (top-loading with drum doors) or Z-axis (front-loading), never Y. I only saw a quick-spin-drying centrifuge in a swimming pool’s hair-drying room.
Edit: in engineering, I almost always see the Y axis as vertical. X is left-right and Z is backward (−)-forward (+) for a right-handed 3D Cartesian system. It’s also like this in Super Mario 64.
The washer in the photo is top-loading though? Which would be the Y-axis.
All of the washing machines my family owned growing up looked like that.
Yup, my photo shows an unusual machine in my country. Neither does it do anything except an express spin cycle nor is it for domestic use.
I hadn’t seen a side loading washer until I was in high school, if not college. Maybe saw them in stores in high school.
Do you mean front-loading? Yes, there are ones with side-aligned drums but those are top-loading and use drum doors.
Is this not a top loading one? It just looks like a standard one with the agitator stick in the middle, which is i think whats holding the clothes
Like this but an older 2000s model
This is a top loading washer with a drum aligned in the Z-axis. Using your coordinate system, the Y-axis would be a front-loading washer that’s pointing a different direction.
it’d be a side loading washing machine. can’t put it next to the dryer because you wouldn’t be able to access the door.
Side-loading? Nah, top-loading with a drum door.
that’s the wackest shit i’ve seen all week.
I’m so confused by this thing
I SO badly wanna try it
Oh god, I’ve gotten old haven’t I? I see a new kind of washer and I wanna give it a try.
My Y-axis is vertical, sorry for not having specified that. Looking for 3D Cartesian diagrams online, there is about an even split between XY being the horizontal plane and a vertical one.
I have one like that. It’s a pain in the ass to grab socks from the bottom because I’m super short.
I feel your pain. As a tall person, I hate front loaders cause I can’t take anything out of the washer without hurting my back.