Thread Number: 39013
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Did dirt devil copy shark? Or did they partner with shark to make this. |
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Post# 414060   9/20/2019 at 21:05 (1,650 days old) by EurekaFanSquid (Sacramento, California)   |   | |
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Post# 414062 , Reply# 1   9/20/2019 at 22:11 (1,650 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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Post# 414064 , Reply# 2   9/20/2019 at 22:32 (1,650 days old) by EurekaFanSquid (Sacramento, California)   |   | |
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Post# 414065 , Reply# 3   9/21/2019 at 00:12 (1,650 days old) by vacuumdevil (Vacuum Hell )   |   | |
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Post# 414068 , Reply# 4   9/21/2019 at 00:22 (1,650 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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Well in this instance, yeah Shark came first but when Dirt Devil went after it, it wasn't necessarily a copy - more that Shark likely just sold the mold to them, or it was just a "free use" design at the time.
You'd have to do some digging around at patents and stuff to figure out exactly what was going on and who the original designer was and what his stipulations were. It's just like Dirt Devil's Ultra hand vac design got re-used for many different companies too. |
Post# 414080 , Reply# 5   9/21/2019 at 13:55 (1,649 days old) by EurekaFanSquid (Sacramento, California)   |   | |
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Post# 414098 , Reply# 6   9/21/2019 at 22:24 (1,649 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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Post# 414176 , Reply# 7   9/23/2019 at 14:30 (1,647 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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I just seen this one on eBay. No maker name on it.
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Post# 414177 , Reply# 8   9/23/2019 at 14:31 (1,647 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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Post# 414225 , Reply# 9   9/24/2019 at 11:57 (1,646 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado)   |   | |
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