Carpet Sweeper Wikipedia

A carpet sweeper is a mechanical device for the cleaning of carpets.

Carpet sweeper wikipedia.

A machine with a. Type of mechanical device used to clean carpets in the home. Retail supplies can still be found but are now expensive. Carpet sweeper is a mechanical apparatus that consists of a box wheels handle and rollers with brushes.

Examples from literature in cleaning a room and its furniture it is. The device was patented as the bissell carpet sweeper in 1876. It is used as its name suggests for cleaning carpets. Kenyon designed the first ewbank branded carpet sweeper which went on sale in 1889.

They appeared before vacuum cleaners become common household. In 1860 a manual vacuum cleaner was invented by daniel hess of west union iowa. A machine with a brush attached to the bottom of it for cleaning carpets 2. It became the most popular product of its type in britain where carpet sweeping became known as ewbanking.

Another early model 1869 was the whirlwind invented in chicago in 1868 by ives w. They were popular before the introduction of the vacuum cleaner and have been largely superseded by them. A machine with a. A fifteen or twenty horse power motor in a factory might be considered plant but a fractional.

The refills are also no longer listed on the p g website. Called a carpet sweeper it gathered dust with a rotating brush and had a bellows for generating suction. Company history edit melville bissell developed an early carpet sweeping machine to aid in cleaning the crockery shop he and his wife anna owned and operated. Introduced january 1 2005 it was discontinued december 31 2008.

In 1883 bissell built the company s first manufacturing plant in grand rapids.