It is used as its name suggests for cleaning carpets.
Carpet sweeper wikipedia.
Retail supplies can still be found but are now expensive.
A fifteen or twenty horse power motor in a factory might be considered plant but a fractional.
A machine with a.
Kenyon designed the first ewbank branded carpet sweeper which went on sale in 1889.
A machine with a brush attached to the bottom of it for cleaning carpets 2.
A machine with a.
Examples from literature in cleaning a room and its furniture it is.
Carpet sweeper is a mechanical apparatus that consists of a box wheels handle and rollers with brushes.
Another early model 1869 was the whirlwind invented in chicago in 1868 by ives w.
Swiffer carpet flick is a carpet sweeping device that used a disposable sticky card to collect dust pet hair and fine dirt.
The ewbank name came from the ewbank area of accrington where the factory was located.
In 1860 a manual vacuum cleaner was invented by daniel hess of west union iowa.
Introduced january 1 2005 it was discontinued december 31 2008.
The device was patented as the bissell carpet sweeper in 1876.
The refills are also no longer listed on the p g website.
They appeared before vacuum cleaners become common household.
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.
Type of mechanical device used to clean carpets in the home.
They were popular before the introduction of the vacuum cleaner and have been largely superseded by them.
In 1883 bissell built the company s first manufacturing plant in grand rapids.
A carpet sweeper is a mechanical device for the cleaning of carpets.