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Thread Number: 7534
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| Post# 83145 , Reply# 1 10/27/2009 at 18:14 (5,292 days old) by kc_kirby (Kansas City, MO) | ||
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Another pic Front view 
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| Post# 83146 , Reply# 2 10/27/2009 at 18:14 (5,292 days old) by kc_kirby (Kansas City, MO) | ||
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Another pic Rear view 
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| Post# 83147 , Reply# 3 10/27/2009 at 18:16 (5,292 days old) by kc_kirby (Kansas City, MO) | ||
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Another pic Other Side 
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| Post# 83152 , Reply# 4 10/27/2009 at 19:06 (5,292 days old) by joe22 () | ||
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congrats its a true gem | ||
| Post# 83155 , Reply# 5 10/27/2009 at 19:47 (5,292 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
So it DID exist!
Hi Buddy! Part of my collection is on paper. Ads, newspaper clippings, and of course newsletters. I also have a vast collection of patents, though my four major ones are Air-Way, Electrolux, Hoover and Kirby. This seems to be, patent # 2,053,563. Inventor, J.B. Kirby and the name of the device 'Pnumatic Cleaner' it was filed Jan. 19, 1931, and the patent was granted on Sept. 8, 1936. With the exception of the handle being of a different shape and location, it is the same machine. This one has a Sani-Em-Tor, and it looks like yours does too! You have a rare find mister, in fact, until I saw the pictures, I doubted that it was ever marketed. Please share the patent numbers on the name plate thingy, see if the one I posted here is on it? should be. Enjoy this rare gem and if you attend next years convention in Texas, bring it with you, I want to see it in person. Thank you for letting me see this. Alex Taber. | ||
| Post# 83159 , Reply# 6 10/27/2009 at 21:24 (5,292 days old) by normvac (COLUMBUS, OHIO) | ||
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WOW ! A great and a lucky find. Was the previous owner living in Cleveland area ?? Enjoy ! Norm | ||
| Post# 83174 , Reply# 9 10/27/2009 at 23:13 (5,292 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
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A very rare find indeed!
My dear Chad: You own a very special Kirby! Patent pending means that it was manufactured sometime between 1931 and 36, as you said most likely 35. Jim Kirby also worked with the guys who made the Apex. Could be that what you have is an experimental model. Is there a place for a hose? and am I right, is there a Sani-Em-Tor? Maybe what you read was a post I did on this same patent a few weeks ago when the subject of the Sani-Em Tor came up. In answer to your question of info on older Kirby machines. That was the main reason I formed this club. Hoover was the ONLY vacuum cleaner company to take any interest in my collecting (and I worked for Kirby at the time!) Electrolux, Kirby, Rexair/Rainbow, Royal, Eureka and others don't care about the past, they care only about getting the sale. When I contacted Electrolux back in 1979, about info on the wet/dry comercial model, they said it didn't exist. I gave them the patent number and a few weeks later got a very nice letter from Charles McKee (president of Electrolux at that time). He told me that quite frankly I know more about their history than he or the other top brass did, and to prove it, sent the instruction book for the wet/dry that they said didn't exist! We here at the Vacuum Cleaner Collecror's Club take pride in a company's history. I love to dig up facts, and hearing a success story like yours really warms my heart. If I can help with other questions, feel free to ask. Alex Taber | ||
Post# 83181 , Reply# 10 10/28/2009 at 12:02 (5,292 days old) by a007kirbyman  (--->> Originally My Mom <<--- (now Wisconsin)) |
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Chad & Utility Hand Vac... | ||
| Post# 83183 , Reply# 11 10/28/2009 at 16:24 (5,291 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS) | ||
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| Post# 83349 , Reply# 12 11/1/2009 at 22:28 (5,287 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH) | ||
Nice Find, Chad! | ||
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