Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Those two dusting tools are from way back in the day. The squarish one is from Kenmore.  It goes as far back as maybe the 1970s and and the round one is so standard it's hard to guess.  The color suggests that it might have come off a Compact but I don't think so becaues of the look of the neck.  As far as our history goes, swivel neck dusting tools are new.  However, vacuums that used curved wands like Filter Queen, GE and Rainbow were a lttle more convenient for dusting the tops of doors and other high flat aras.  Kirby was good for this too. Our Air-Way used a vee-shaped dusting tool throughout manufacture, many, many years and Electrolux devised a combination tool back in the 1950s that still exists

Europe, or should I say Asia, has had strong influence on floor tool design.  I'm not very appreciative of the new ideas as they employ the red velcro strip for routing surface litter and not floating brush strips as in past.  Electrolux, Air-Way, Filtex and Westinghouse (at one time) developed rug nozzles that did not use brush strips. 

I have heard of no animal rights protestors input but the interestng aspect here is that mainly animal hair was used for the the brushes in all these tools.  I pretty sure horses are glad fo the doing away with of "glue factories" but I am curioous to learn how and why the transition was made. For all the bacon that turns up on our table, there an awful lot of scrub brushes with plastic bristles around I still much prefer vacuum attachments that employ brushes made from animal hair

Venson

Hiya vacmanuk,

Horse hair,  etc., was once a mainstay in the production of many products including furniture and mattresses.  (it's now been given up for foam that has a "memory" and the stuff they've given up rubberized felt for for carpet. padding -- who knows what that is.)   That said, having used both vacuum dusting tools made of synthetic  and natural I still feel nothing beats natural materials.  On the fashion side of things, women have not yet given up natural material for synthetic for brushes they apply cosmetics with.

To be truthful, I think vacuum dusting tools are best  for getting up stuff that's heavily collected over time.  You know, like who besides those already meant for Heaven ever look on top of those hutch style china cabinets more than once a year?  When you do decide to look, it's usually obvious that there you need a vacuum.  But for regularly used and visible surfaces like dining or end tables, your best off laying your money a plain old dust cloth.  A swipe and your done way faster than the time it takes to retrieve and attach a vacuum tool (even if onboard), use it and put it back.

Venson