diff --git a/invokeai/backend/__init__.py b/invokeai/backend/__init__.py
index dd126a322d..06066dd6b1 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/__init__.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from .generator import (
     Img2Img,
     Inpaint
 )
-from .model_management import ModelManager, SDModelComponent
+from .model_management import ModelManager
 from .safety_checker import SafetyChecker
 from .args import Args
 from .globals import Globals
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_management/__init__.py b/invokeai/backend/model_management/__init__.py
index 4a82da849a..1d290050d4 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_management/__init__.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_management/__init__.py
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ from .convert_ckpt_to_diffusers import (
     convert_ckpt_to_diffusers,
     load_pipeline_from_original_stable_diffusion_ckpt,
 )
-from .model_manager import ModelManager,SDModelComponent
+from .model_manager import ModelManager
 
 
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_management/model_manager.py b/invokeai/backend/model_management/model_manager.py
index c76be93e8f..a51a2fec22 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_management/model_manager.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_management/model_manager.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import transformers
 from diffusers import (
     AutoencoderKL,
     UNet2DConditionModel,
+    SchedulerMixin,
     logging as dlogging,
 )    
 from huggingface_hub import scan_cache_dir
@@ -169,7 +170,55 @@ class ModelManager(object):
             "hash": hash,
         }
 
-    def get_sub_model(
+    def get_model_vae(self, model_name: str=None)->AutoencoderKL:
+        """Given a model name identified in models.yaml, load the model into
+        GPU if necessary and return its assigned VAE as an
+        AutoencoderKL object. If no model name is provided, return the
+        vae from the model currently in the GPU.
+        """
+        return self._get_sub_model(model_name, SDModelComponent.vae)
+                                   
+    def get_model_tokenizer(self, model_name: str=None)->CLIPTokenizer:
+        """Given a model name identified in models.yaml, load the model into
+        GPU if necessary and return its assigned CLIPTokenizer. If no
+        model name is provided, return the tokenizer from the model
+        currently in the GPU.
+        """
+        return self._get_sub_model(model_name, SDModelComponent.tokenizer)
+                                   
+    def get_model_unet(self, model_name: str=None)->UNet2DConditionModel:
+        """Given a model name identified in models.yaml, load the model into
+        GPU if necessary and return its assigned UNet2DConditionModel. If no model
+        name is provided, return the UNet from the model
+        currently in the GPU.  
+        """
+        return self._get_sub_model(model_name, SDModelComponent.unet)
+
+    def get_model_text_encoder(self, model_name: str=None)->CLIPTextModel:
+        """Given a model name identified in models.yaml, load the model into
+        GPU if necessary and return its assigned CLIPTextModel. If no
+        model name is provided, return the text encoder from the model
+        currently in the GPU.
+        """
+        return self._get_sub_model(model_name, SDModelComponent.text_encoder)
+
+    def get_model_feature_extractor(self, model_name: str=None)->CLIPFeatureExtractor:
+        """Given a model name identified in models.yaml, load the model into
+        GPU if necessary and return its assigned CLIPFeatureExtractor. If no
+        model name is provided, return the text encoder from the model
+        currently in the GPU.
+        """
+        return self._get_sub_model(model_name, SDModelComponent.feature_extractor)
+
+    def get_model_scheduler(self, model_name: str=None)->SchedulerMixin:
+        """Given a model name identified in models.yaml, load the model into
+        GPU if necessary and return its assigned scheduler. If no
+        model name is provided, return the text encoder from the model
+        currently in the GPU.
+        """
+        return self._get_sub_model(model_name, SDModelComponent.scheduler)
+    
+    def _get_sub_model(
             self,
             model_name: str=None,
             model_part: SDModelComponent=SDModelComponent.vae,
@@ -181,7 +230,7 @@ class ModelManager(object):
         CLIPTextModel,
         StableDiffusionSafetyChecker,
     ]:
-        """Given a model named identified in models.yaml, and the part of the
+        """Given a model name identified in models.yaml, and the part of the
         model you wish to retrieve, return that part. Parts are in an Enum
         class named SDModelComponent, and consist of:
         SDModelComponent.vae
@@ -190,7 +239,7 @@ class ModelManager(object):
         SDModelComponent.unet
         SDModelComponent.scheduler
         SDModelComponent.safety_checker
-        SDModelComponent.feature_etractor
+        SDModelComponent.feature_extractor
         """
         model_dict = self.get_model(model_name)
         model = model_dict["model"]