A Interesting vacuum find

[cb123]

I bought this pamphlet a few months back at one of my churches fund drives for our missionaries in Guatemala - for our church planting and children's hospital project. Most unfortunately, you could strain your eye's, and not find a date printed anywhere. If someone could tell me the date that this was published, I would be most obliged. On a second note, I do believe Hamilton Beach is still in the business of making ceiling fans.

 

[cb123]

Pic#2

Reverse side

 

[hygiene903]

Don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this. Amazing!
Jeff

 

[cb123]

Jeff

Thanks, for your input, and buy the way, that is a mighty fine elec. Sweeper vac. you have. I hope that the advertisement was helpful.

 

[hygiene903]

Thank You Calem!

Yes, the brochure you posted was helpful. However, my SweeperVac doesn't look as good in person as it does in the pic. lot of work to do on it yet. Enjoyed the pics you posted as well. The Eurekas and Kirbys are beautiful, as is the Scott & Fetzer!
As for Hamilton Beach, they are still producing small appliances as well. Or at least, there are still appliances produced with the Hamilton Beach name. Interesting too, that the Westinghouse small appliance lines were sold to Hamilton Beach/Scoville in 1970.
Jeff

 

[cb123]

Glad I could be of help

That's a pretty rare sweeper thou, I believe I have never seen one, nor even a part of one. That baby should be put on high priority on the restoration list. That's still one very rare, and fine machine, and what a find she is.

 

[cb123]

Continued

A couple of years ago I put an indoor/outdoor Hamilton Beach ceiling fan in a spare room. The kind which has the plastic wood grained blades, and honestly that has been one of the best fans I've ever owned.

 

[nycwriter]

I would put this ...

... at about 1920, given the shoes, the dress, and the hairstyle. Definitely not near the late '20s yet, when the hemlines went higher.

Incidentally, assuming it's early '20s, adjusted for inflation, that sweeper was about $209.

 

[nycwriter]

oh yeah ...

... and the candlestick phone in the illustration!

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Calem -</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I have the matching ad for that pamphlet, published in the June 1922 "The Ladies' Home Journal". They show the little motor being used with a polisher, a fan, that mixer pictured, a grinder wheel, the sewing machine, and , of course, the vacuum cleaner. Great stuff. I can't scan the ad because it is too wide and tall for my scanner.</span>

 

[cb123]

portable

If you have a digital camera, you can take a photo of it, and then take the SD card and put into your computers SD port and download it into one of your picture folders. Be sure to have your pixels set low.

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">OK....will do that tomorrow. The camera battery is low, so I'll charge it tonight and take the picture tomorrow. Good idea!  John</span>

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Calem,</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Here's the first picture of the whole ad. Sorry about the quality....</span>

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">and one of the top half....</span>

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">and the bottom half....According to the note on the bottom right, they were looking for salesmen</span>

 

[cb123]

Thanks, for the photos

Great add from The Ladies Home Journal. I really like when they said you can suck up a screw-driver. It also looks like you can burn little kiddies fingers off with that alternator belt too. That would indeed be a fascinating vacuum to get a hold of. Thanks, again for posting your great photos.

 

[cb123]

On second thought

It does kind-of look like a tool chest, and also has all the functions of a work shop to boot. Great Vacuum!

 

[tolivac]

Beleive the machine that the HB motor is powering is NOT really a vacuum cleaner--but a sweeper.Does the unit have a fan?The lady of the house has her "Home" motor-the man of the house has his "Farm" motor or engine.Later those functions done from a tractor PTO-and the home motor-the "PTO" from a mixer.All of those exposed moving parts-folks would have to be CAREFUL back then and had the sense to keep away from the parts-even the kids!

 

[cb123]

tolivac

I thought so too, but it seems like their going out of their way to make the bag look inflated. Their is no other photos, but from this single vantage. I can only guess that their must be another pulley - one around the brush roll, to the fan, and back to the motor. Now on a lighter note, I've known adults who wanted to stick their tongs in light sockets, if you can believe that, and if she didn't pass out - once that twenty amps grabbed her, she would have most surely died. Needless to say that broke her from sucking eggs, and for some strange reason, she don't want to play kiss the light socket any more. She was cured of her uncontrollable compulsion. Now for the over-powering, hypnotic spell of the mesmerizing pulley. It would most undoubtedly prove to irresistible to some weaker folks, and soon the call of the spinning belt would win out, and then they would have to find someone else to open their ketchup bottles, and pirates of the Caribbean would be their favorite show. Ahoy Mattie's !