Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

   Just curious, does anyone know the Original name for this 50 +  year old machine and what is different about it from other machines?

                                                                                    Procare

                                                                          

Hello Procare:

Excellent question, wish my memory were better.  It escapes me.

If I'm not mistaken, and I may be, Westinghouse [or one of the vacuum makers like it, perhaps BISSELL] toyed with a similar model in plastic probably 60's vintage. 

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:
Hi Carmine,

It was Sunbeam. It produced the usual twin-brush type home floor polsisher plus offered a practically sized single-brush machine. The brush spun as it followed a slightly offset path form the main drive shaft. This is the same process the beaters Kitchen-Aid mixers use.

If I am correct, the Orbiter is an outsourced machine although the style has been around for a long time and sold under many names. I think even Johnson (the floor wax people) may have had one out over the years.

Venson

Venson

EUREKA!  No, Sunbeam.  Thanks Venson. Your memory and recall is much better than this old vacuum man's.

Carmine D.

When my Father bought them back in 1956-58 they were called Cyclo and did have the out of round movement hence the hand action cleaning. I still have an original Cyclo. They came out the same time and sold the same way as the Niagara Hand Massage recliners.  You would spray foam shampoo on the carpet and brush it in with the gentle hand action of the Cyclo. Argosheen sold it in the 1970's to 1980's prior to being bought by Oreck. It was known as plain Orbiter then.Nice little unit.

                                                                                                               Procare

                                                                                                          

Sebo have just released a single polisher head for their Dart/Felix uprights. In some markets it is called Disco or UHS

http://www.sebo.de/82.82.eng.html

vacmanuk wrote:
The Sebo attachment is the first of its kind that I've seen as it has electric motor of its own for powering its brush and only uses the vacuum's suction for cleaning as it buffs. Per its manual, it can be used with certain Sebo uprights and its canisters as well. The like here -- hardly anybody offers them here anymore -- had no motors but used flywheels powered by either a canister vac's suction or blower port. Rainbow and Fairfax for a time made polisher attachments that ran directly off the canisters motor unit but no suction was not emplyed for cleaning. Kirby's belt-driven version appear to also have been dropped though it has a similar device for rug shampooing.

However, I have seen the European floor polishers that buff and vacuum. They resemble external bagged upright vacs.

Except for commercial spaces it seems that floor polishing has almost been done away with in U.S. homes with the coming of no-wax flooring and polyurethane coatings for wood floors. (The wax finishing process for wood floors is wonderful to look at but requires a good amount of care and is expensive.)

Wood floor care has gotten so easy due to polyurethane that wood can even be a consideration for kitchen flooring now. Basically all that's required is vacuuming or sweeping and a regular going over with a mop wrung nearly dry and you're good to go. Spills, however, should be quickly wiped up.

Venson

Venson wrote:
Sebo also has an adapter that lets you use this on just about any brand of canister or central vacuum.  It's not a huge seller but the customers that have it like it.  I've used it on my own floors and it does do a nice job at refreshing the look.

Dusty

dusty wrote:
Cool!

Venson

Im wondering how the adaptor would be used on other brands - unless it has a power attachment socket of its own that can be adapted to other sizes of tubes plus loads of cable, the polisher head has its own adaptor socket built in for the sebo uprights and canisters just like the excellent ET-1 power head and like that I noticed the polisher attachment also has a stop function button for the brush.

vacmanuk wrote:
The adapter simply plugs into the disco neck (or any sebo pn neck for that mater) and allows you to insert any standard wand into it.  The cable that comes with the adapter is a standard 2 pin plug and is long enough to run the length of a pair of wands. Works like a charm.

Dusty