Thread Number: 33059
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
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Post# 361227 , Reply# 1   10/20/2016 at 17:27 (2,715 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 361241 , Reply# 2   10/20/2016 at 20:16 (2,715 days old) by fantomfan57 (Central Texas)   |   | |
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Was this a 2 person operation? How exactly did it work? |
Post# 361247 , Reply# 3   10/20/2016 at 21:37 (2,715 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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Here's the Lakeside in action.
Actually this picture is 40 years old, but it shows the standard two person operated vacuum cleaner. How did it work? In the two end caps are bellows, and a long pole inside the canister connected to the pole handle outside the machine works the bellows to give constant suction. The drawback here is that no matter how hard you work the handle you never get enough suction to be effective. The only good thing about these machines was that they were the springboard to launch other ideas. Fact is without an electric moter, these were doomed to fail. Personally, I love these vacuum cleaners. Not for their performance, or lack thereof, but rather the design as they quite interesting to watch in action. If you want a better description contact me at Ralextaber@gmail.com, keyword Vacuumland, and I'll send you 'The History of The Non-Electric Vacuum Cleaner,' which I wrote in September of 1980. Alex Taber. |