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  2. List of vacuum cleaners - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of vacuum cleaners and robot vacuum cleaner manufacturers. A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors, and optionally from other surfaces as well. The dirt is gathered by either a dustbag or a rigid cartridge, which may be emptied and reused.

  3. Hubert Cecil Booth - Wikipedia

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    Upon seeing the dust and dirt collected on the underside of the handkerchief, he realized the idea could work. Booth created a large device, [11] driven by an internal combustion engine. Nicknamed the "Puffing Billy", [12] Booth's first petrol-powered, horse-drawn vacuum cleaner relied upon air drawn by a piston pump through a cloth filter. It ...

  4. Manual vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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    "This movement was a key design feature as it has a double connected bellows, meaning that movement in either direction created a vacuum." The second person could use the attached hose then to clean the house. The dust was collected in a cotton bag within the machine. An example of this can be seen at the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum

  5. Vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the dust is separated in a detachable cylindrical collection vessel or bin. Air and dust are sucked at high speed into the collection vessel at a direction tangential to the vessel wall, creating a fast-spinning vortex. The dust particles and other debris move to the outside of the vessel by centrifugal force, where they fall due to ...

  6. Central vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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    Air and dust are sucked at high speed into the collection vessel at a direction tangential to the vessel wall, creating a fast-spinning vortex. Roughly speaking, the dust particles and other debris spiral outward to the wall of the vessel by centrifugal force , where they fall due to gravity into the bottom of the collection bin.

  7. Black & Decker DustBuster - Wikipedia

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    Spillbuster 2000 from 1998. The Black & Decker DustBuster (now stylized as DUSTBUSTER) is a cordless vacuum cleaner that was introduced in January 1979.. Mark Proett and Carroll Gantz are listed as the inventors on the utility and design patents, respectively, assigned to Black & Decker for a cordless vacuum cleaner.

  8. Category:Pump manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 12 October 2024, at 04:50 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. Category:Given names - Wikipedia

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    Given names which have been used by individuals (historical and fictitious). Use template {{ Given name }} to populate this category. (However, do not use the template on disambiguation pages that contain a list of people by given name.)