Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is because a Bissell sweeper with its large brush is particularly efficient on any kind of miscellaneous litter, because of its extreme lightness and handiness to use, because it is ready the instant you pick it up and costs little. In others words, it is simply a ball bearing bristle broom-on-wheels with its own long handled dust pans...
Cleaning carpets by suction machinery is scarcely 20 years old. Before 1907 the housewife dragged a broom across the carpet nap or, when she could afford it, she bought a carpet sweeper. Bissel was the most popular make of sweeper. It had (and still has) a revolving brush that picked up lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang...
...Murray Spangler invented a machine which was a combination of a carpet sweeper and suction pump. A small electric motor created a vacuum that sucked the carpet up away from the floor and against a carpet sweeper brush. This brush, revolving, beat against the carpet and loosened the dirt, which the vacuum in turn pulled into a convenient sack. This was, and is, the Hoover. William H. Hoover and his three sons, (Herbert W., F. G., and D. P.) made...
...owner, manager, scribe. Then northward, eastward they go for careful records show that after April 11 meteorological conditions from Boston to Chicago will permit professional baseball to operate at a profit on summer playgrounds. On April 12, brass gongs will resound in eight enclosures, dapper umpires will brush eight white rubber slabs, 200,000 spectators will give anticipatory cry? "Play ball...
Prophylactic Brush-the shipping clerks brag of their commercial geography knowledge; they ship these toothbrushes everywhere in the world-profits...