Flowbee

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Flowbee in use

Flowbee is an electrically operated vacuum cleaner attachment that is used for cutting hair. In 1986, its developer, carpenter Rick E. Hunts from San Diego, California, applied for a patent, which was granted in 1987. The innovation consisted of guaranteeing a uniform hair length when cutting the hair that was sucked into the attachment with attachments of different lengths and disposing of the cut hair at the same time. The product has been marketed since 1988, initially from the local workshop. Flowbee also became known in Germany for TV commercials broadcast at night. Two million copies had been sold by 2000.

Flowbee is also suitable for grooming dogs with long fur. A corresponding attachment is available separately. A special green model was also temporarily offered for this purpose. Over the years, Flowbee has undergone at least three revisions ("Vac-u-cut", "Flowbee Int.", "Flowbee.com"), which can be traced back to the shape and identification of the cutting head.

Flowbee is still sold directly on the manufacturer's website and through various retailers on the Internet. The Flowbee is manufactured in Flour Bluff , a suburb of Corpus Christi , Texas .

reception

The popularity of the Flowbee is often interpreted ironically. B. Jon Stewart : “ If they can sit through a half-hour of a Flowbee commercial, they can certainly sit through a half-hour of my show. "(German:" If they [the audience] can hold out half an hour of flow advertising, then they'll certainly hold out for half an hour of my broadcast. ") Or from the Bloodhound Gang in the song Mope :" Givin 'myself a mullet, hook the flowbee. " to the Kirby "(German:" I'll make me a mullet , hang 'the Flowbee to the Kirby "(Kirby is a known vacuum cleaner brand in the US)..)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patent US4679322 : Hair clipper. Filed July 7, 1986 , published July 14, 1987 , inventor: Rick E. Hunts. ‌
  2. ↑ Mimi Pond: Splitting Hairs. The Bald Truth about Bad Hair Days. New York: Simon & Schuster 1998. p. 130. ISBN 0-684-82643-7 .
  3. ↑ Lou Harry, Sam Stall: As Seen on TV: 50 Amazing Products and the Commercials that Made Them Famous , Quirk Books, 2002 ISBN 978-1-931686-09-9 , pp. 40-41, limited preview in Google - Book search
  4. ^ Damien Cave: A hair-raising scheme. Salon.com, January 6, 2000, accessed November 27, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Lisa Rogak: Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart . Macmillan Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4668-4106-2 , p. 56, books.google.de