When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: hoover windtunnel vacuum troubleshooting self propelled

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Vacuum recall: Hoover WindTunnel a fire hazard - AOL

    www.aol.com/2010/05/27/hoover-windtunnel-vacuum...

    Hoover Inc. announced a recall of its Hoover WindTunnel bagless upright vacuums after receiving reports of the machines burning carpets and a consumer's hand, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety ...

  3. Hoover Vacuum Recall: Can Short-Circuit, Catch Fire - AOL

    www.aol.com/2011/02/09/hoover-vacuum-recall-can...

    Hoover Inc. recalled about 142,000 Hoover WindTunnel Canister Vacuums after 69 reports of them overheating or shorting, even when turned off, said the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. So ...

  4. The Hoover Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company

    The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in Ohio, United States, in 1908.It also established a major base in the United Kingdom, where it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry during most of the 20th century, to the point where the Hoover brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

  5. List of vacuum cleaners - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vacuum_cleaners

    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.

  6. Vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner

    Although vacuum cleaner and the short form vacuum are neutral names, in some countries (UK, Ireland) hoover is used instead as a genericized trademark, and as a verb.The name comes from the Hoover Company, [1] one of the first and most influential companies in the development of the device.

  7. Manual vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_vacuum_cleaner

    The manual vacuum cleaner was a type of non-electric vacuum cleaner, using suction to remove dirt from carpets, being powered by human muscle, similar in use to a manual lawn mower. Its invention is dated to the second half of the 19th century, when patents were granted to inventors in the United States, Britain, France, and elsewhere.

  8. Self-propulsion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-propulsion

    The sequence of images demonstrating the rotation of the self-propelled PVC tubing, containing camphor. [1] The time separation between frames is 0.33 s. Self-propulsion is the autonomous displacement of nano-, micro- and macroscopic natural and artificial objects, containing their own means of motion.

  9. Goblin Vacuum Cleaners - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_Vacuum_Cleaners

    Whilst Hoover and Electrolux dominated the top end of the British vacuum cleaner market, Goblin continued to sell large numbers of cheaper cleaners. Popular models included the 1970s "Housemaid" cleaner (with an advertising campaign featuring Jenny Tomasin of Upstairs, Downstairs fame) and the compact "Rio" cleaner of the 1980s.