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Thread Number: 42792
/ Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Ezee Grasshopper Vacuum Sweeper |
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| Post# 448619 12/13/2021 at 21:25 (858 days old) by Ezee1914 (Cleveland) | ||
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Does anyone know how many Ezee sweepers are known to exist? Thanks! | ||
| Post# 448620 , Reply# 1 12/13/2021 at 21:42 (858 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky) | ||
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Post# 448626 , Reply# 2 12/14/2021 at 02:14 (858 days old) by KirbyCollector  (Columbus Ohio USA) |
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| Post# 448628 , Reply# 3 12/14/2021 at 09:02 (857 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
The Ezee was not made by Scott and Fetzer, but rather by the Frantz Premier company, who was making the Frantz Premier (designed by James Kirby) electric vacuum since 1910. There is absolutely no reason it's on the Kirby Company timeline as it was never their product. In one of my old VCCC newsletters is the ad for it as well as the electric Frantz Premier.
I imagine that they sold as many as they could make, for the short time timey made them. Frantz Premier was bought by General Electric in 1918, who would have never made anything "non-electric". | ||
| Post# 448639 , Reply# 4 12/14/2021 at 17:53 (857 days old) by Ezee1914 (Cleveland) | ||
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Thanks for the replies! I have one of these vacuums. It’s in pretty good shape but it’s missing the little glass dome that goes on the front. I’m hoping I can find a 3” glass dish that will work. It’s also missing most of the latch on one side, but I can make those parts. | ||
| Post# 448640 , Reply# 5 12/14/2021 at 18:02 (857 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky) | ||
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| Post# 448643 , Reply# 7 12/14/2021 at 19:46 (857 days old) by Ezee1914 (Cleveland) | ||
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To answer your question about how it works, yes, you push down on the handle and the snout slides forward while the bellows expand creating vacuum. The wheels stay put until you lift up on the handle letting the wheels catch up to the snout. Looks like an inchworm going across the floor. Lol | ||
| Post# 448686 , Reply# 8 12/17/2021 at 17:18 (854 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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