This project achieved the position of national runner up in the James Dyson Award.
For people that have no access to electricity, limited water, limited space or those that want to be a little more environmentally conscious. The Pull Dry is a solution that allows for transporting, washing and drying clothing without electricity.
The idea began from needing to dry my own clothing quickly and affordably in a small apartment. Our windows don't open, a clothes horse takes all the space in my room and the dryers we have access to are expensive and ineffective. Upon further research I realized that many people around the world are forced to wash their clothing in rivers and hang them up to dry in their cramped living spaces. Respectively, a cheaply manufacturable solution to transport, wash and dry clothing would be the ideal solution.
The process started through sketching and brainstorming ideas that could dry clothing without electricity. I tested and researched many different ways to convert pulling forces into spinning forces, and arrived at the conclusion that the twisted string was the most efficient - by a very significant margin. I created physics simulations and 3D printed models to refine the final form, experimenting with folding and collapsible designs, but these all hindered the performance as they increased air resistance. Progressively larger scale models were created to test with articles of clothing, and the force was still more than capable of rendering the clothes effectually dry after seconds of spinning. Satisfied with the function of the (≈) half scale model and without funding or workshop access, I created renders and animations to show what the resolved outcome would be.
