Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit factory of the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., President Fred Wardell long ago established the conveyor system for assembling his vacuum cleaners. Over continuously moving belts and rollers there pass to workers the switches, wire, handles, motors, wheels, aluminum casings, bags and other parts that make up the Eureka cleaner. The system produces 1,500 cleaners a day, 300,000 a year. Last week it halted for a few moments for a ceremony- the assembling of the 2,000,000th vacuum cleaner which the company has manufactured since President Wardell created it in 1910. The 2,000,000th machine...
Then last month the International Harvester Co. announced sales of three effective machines: a cotton picker, a cotton boiler and a cotton cleaner (TIME, Sept...
...Inventor Luce's device is simpler and accomplishes less work. But it is no less effective within its range. To demonstrate it at the Waco Cotton Fair, he hitched a mule to a two-wheeled wagon which bore the contraption, a pump that sucked air like a vacuum-cleaner through long flexible tubes. One man led the mule and cart between ripe cotton bushes. At each side of the mule walked a man with a tube from the vacuum pump strapped to a wrist. These men darted their hands at ripe cotton; the tubes with a soft hiss sucked...
...cotton cleaner...
...Cleaner. Dirt and trash are removed from the fibres by dropping the fluff on a rapidly revolving disc. Heavy particles are drawn out by the centrifugal force. A belt-and-cylinder device cleans further. The fluff is bagged at the rear of the machine...