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/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl General >> Vacuum Cleaner Forum >> LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filth /cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1174389594 Message started by M00seUK on 03/20/07 at 7:19am |
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Title: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filth Post by M00seUK on 03/20/07 at 7:19am http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/lgkompressor.jpg http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070318/vacuum-cleaner-lg-kompressor-turns-dust-into-blocks-of-filth/ http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/kompressor-vacuum-makes-bricksof-your-filth-245089.php Innovation in vacuum cleaner design continues abound with this upcoming model from LG, allowing you to vacuum for up to four times longer before emptying. Recent patent filings from Dyson indicate a similar method, but it looks like LG are going to be first to market with this new bagless concept. |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by Carmine_Difazio on 03/20/07 at 8:15am M00seUK wrote:
Hello M00seUK: It may be innovative for bagless vacuums but not bagged. Bagged vacuums have always compacted the vacuumed debris. Suction created in and by the bagged vacuum design eliminates the air and compresses the dirt. One of the reasons in part that a bagged design vacuum can be used much longer before changing a bag vice the bagless dirt bin that needs to be dumped as frequently as daily after every use. What does this do for the bagless supporters who said vacuum users loathed dirt stored in the bagged vacuum? So they prefer bagless and want to dump the bagless bin after each use and before storage in the closet? The more we change the more we stay the same. Or as someone on this Forum likes to say: "What's old is new again!" Carmine D. |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by Carmine_Difazio on 03/20/07 at 3:03pm A question for consideration: Does the compacted dirt "bricks" make bin dumping more or less difficult for the users? Carmine D. |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by JD on 03/22/07 at 4:23pm I wonder what Dyson version of it will be like!? |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by RAT on 03/22/07 at 5:16pm I sometimes wish they wouldn't allow patents for such obvious and relatively minor things. |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by guess_who on 03/22/07 at 9:45pm I can't recall the ad copy word for word but didn't Europe's bagless Rowenta vacuum make this claim several years ago. I'll have to look around for the model but they did have a rather fancy looking machine with a wedge-shaped floor tool that was supposed to pack collected dirt at the bottom of its dust continer. Regards, Venson |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by dial-a-matic on 03/25/07 at 10:35pm It looks and sounds like junk! |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by Trilobite on 03/28/07 at 10:57pm guess_who wrote:
What, the Rowenta 'Airforce'? As far as I can remember, it used a screw-type, helical chamber to spin stuff out into a bin. I've a sneaky feeling that it never worked properly, as the machine didn't appear to be on sale for long. |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by guess_who on 03/29/07 at 11:14am Hi Trolobite, It was the Rowenta Infinium (do you know it) I was thinking but I was wrong. Same as the Rowenta model you described, it also drew in dirty air and deposited the dirt it carried in a bin at the back. The name I should have quoted was Sanyo. They made a metallic blue bagless machine for a while and that's what I was thinking of. Sorry for going the long way round. Regards, Venson |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by Trilobite on 04/01/07 at 10:17pm Come to think of it, it was the "Infinium". The 'technology', if you can call it that, was called 'Airforce', and the cleaner was apparently partly designed by two blokes off a UK Channel Four design programme. This was a programme series, where they looked at 'improving' tried and tested designs for everyday objects. I remember one episode where they tried to improve the toilet bowl, to stop men 'spraying everywhere'! The resultant design had a splashback: I didn't think they were all that good as designers. |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by guess_who on 04/22/07 at 3:44pm Hi, Don't know if links have been provided to this new piece. It may be a while before we turn our swords into plowshares but per this April 19th article we may soon be able to at least turn dust into bricks. What can I say . . . at least LG appears to try. Happy Sunday, Venson |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by M00seUK on 05/23/07 at 5:40pm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lH15LCtzbY I saw this LG Kompressor advert for the first time today. Looking forward to seeing how it does - looks like a neat feature! |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by No Loss of Suction on 05/24/07 at 4:44pm Here's the link to LG’s Korean site. Flash animation demonstrating their vacuum Compressor and Steamer. Lots of pages and rollovers on the presentation. Sound can be turned off if wanted. http://www.lge.co.kr/brand/cyking/experience/cyking01.jsp |
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Title: Re: LG Kompressor - turns dust into blocks of filt Post by guess_who on 05/24/07 at 7:37pm Thanks No-Loss, The model you're indicating is Dyson and Raibow all wrapped up in one by way of cyclonics and water being used for air filtration plus plus that extra from steam vapor cleaning's incorporation. Not many American's are serious about steam vapor cleaners so I doubt if this this interesting invention would fare well in the U.S. I'd also say that of the few steam vapor cleamres/vacuums that are available to us, I am not greatly impressed. LG does seem to come up with great ideas. Venson |
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