The history of the Sanitaire vacuum sweeping machine , also, where is a good place to find Sanitaire vacuum bags ?
The Sanitaire vacuum bags , along with the Rainbow vacuum and the Thermax vacuum were instrumental in changing the way people in American clean their carpets. In the good old days way back before the vacuum cleaner was invented, people had several dissimilar ways to get their rugs clean. Remember the old rug beaters?
A rug beater was very simple to use. All you had to do was take your dirty old rug outside and hang it on some suitable length of rope or wire. more often than not, you would find that everyone used the clothes line. If you are under 30 years old you may be scratching your head and saying to yourself, “what’s a clothes line?”.
A clothes line was simply a small rope strung out between two poles or posts. It was then used to hang wet clothes on, in an orderly fashion, in the hopes that the cloudly overcast would go away and let some of the bright sunshine in on your wet clothes. Hanging wet clothes out on a clothes line was also used to control the weather in some regions of the country. If your city had been experiencing a drought, all you had to do was let the laundry get almost dry and it was a sure fire way to make it rain.
Finding good places on the Net for getting your Sanitaire bags can be difficult sometimes.
Back to the dirty rug. After hanging your diry rug on the clothes line (remember, the Sanitaire bags hadn’t been invented yet) you simply take your son’s old ball bat and beat the dickens out of the rug. Seemly endless clouds of dust will appear and cover you and every thing in your back yard with black powder. At this point you need to hang some wet clothes on the clothes line so that at least you will get a rain shower to settle the dust. Which, now that I think about it would solve your dirty rug problem too.