Carpet beating machine
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A carpet beater is a cleaning machine for carpets . When cleaning carpets “by tapping or hitting” the carpet can be thrown against a suitable surface or a tapping tool can be used against the carpet. As early as 1838, the Frenchman Pichard received a French patent for a carpet beating machine that removed the dust using beater bars on the vertically suspended carpet . Machines that clean carpets horizontally were available from 1879. In 1902, the first carpet cleaning company with a mechanical carpet beating machine was founded in Berlin. James Murray Spangler received in 1910 a patent for a removable attachment with a rotary brush for carpet cleaning machines, the first portable vacuum cleaner of Hoover was used.
Self-propelled carpet beating machines were classified as self-propelled machines in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957 and were thus exempt from vehicle tax. Manual carpet cleaning in the home with a carpet rod and carpet beater was superseded in the 1960s by vacuum cleaners with carpet brushes and cleaning machines. Carpet beating machines are still used for dedusting valuable oriental carpets .
Web links
- Film archive of the Federal Archives : Welt im Bild 98/1954 from 0: 04: 50.14
- Carpet beating machine
Individual evidence
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↑ H. Glafey: About cleaning carpets and pillows. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 282, 1890, pp. 189-193. and
H. Glafey: About cleaning carpets and pillows (continued). In: Polytechnisches Journal . 282, 1890, pp. 209-216. - ↑ Markus Seumer: From the cleaning trade to the building cleaning trade. The development of commercial building cleaning in Germany (1878 to 1990) (= contributions to company history , volume 7). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-515-07372-1 , p. 25 (also dissertation, University of Bonn 1998).
- ↑ U.S. Patent 974304
- ↑ Verkehrsblatt : 1957, p. 139.
- ↑ Hanomag courier with photos of a self-propelled carpet beating machine
- ↑ tagblatt.ch
