"American Home Princess"; aka Filter Queen for Japan market

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Am stunned to see the Japanese Suction Work Rate rating for this vacuum, 319 watts. That's higher than Tristar ( 190 watts ), Lux 1R D820 ( 240 watts ) or Concordia ( Electrolux Ambassador), 200 watts. Higher than Miele too. Middle image on the bottom row of photos shows the data tag with the vacuum's specs.

https://buyee.jp/mercari/item/m85746727650?conversionType=Mercari_DirectSearch
 
I always thought that in terms of end of hose performance filter queens were a bit lacking. The motor may generate lots of power, however the cone filters clog up easily and then the power drops off quickly.
 
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Optima was the bagged model, though many of them have been retrofitted with the standard cone setup. Princess, if memory serves, was a retail brand to be sold in vacuum stores, they generally were slightly more basic lacking a speed control.
Oh! That's an emerald princess. I don't know what those were about.
 
Hmm, very interesting! As for the vacuum's working rate, what it DOES NOT tell, and makes it pretty much irrelevant, is that the Filter Queen, with all it's variants, loses it's suction & airflow VERY QUICKLY because of the cellulose filter cone set-up. I have found, and Durango159 said on here while selling them, that the dust goes right to the cone, clings to it, & clogs it up. And you have to "ping" the cone with your finger, then put the top back on, or change the cone to restore suction & airflow.

What's even more interesting is they deleted the powerhead on/off switch on the hose handle! I wonder why they would have done that for the Japanese market?
 
Oh, sorry, I must have got confused. Filterqueen isn't my strong suit. My Nana's filterqueen loses suction like nothing else I know. Great suction amounts to nothing pretty much. It is like biking in first gear. No amount of power can get around a clogged filter or bag.
 
kirbylux77 said:
Hmm, very interesting! As for the vacuum's working rate, what it DOES NOT tell, and makes it pretty much irrelevant, is that the Filter Queen, with all it's variants, loses it's suction & airflow VERY QUICKLY because of the cellulose filter cone set-up. I have found, and Durango159 said on here while selling them, that the dust goes right to the cone, clings to it, & clogs it up. And you have to "ping" the cone with your finger, then put the top back on, or change the cone to restore suction & airflow.

What's even more interesting is they deleted the powerhead on/off switch on the hose handle! I wonder why they would have done that for the Japanese market?
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Required Japanese safety feature. The Japanese require the power nozzle to have a little spring loaded roller on the bottom that pushes in a switch. The brush roll won't turn on unless the nozzle is on the floor. When you lift the nozzle off the floor the spring pushes the roller out and disconnects the power. There is a little steel ball in a housing arranged so that when you turn the nozzle upside down the steel ball rolls into the space between the roller and switch so you can't press the roller down when the nozzle is upside down. Glorious Japanese weirdness !
If you go back to my other thread about the Concordia, the Japan market Electrolux 2100 you will see the little roller on the bottom of the PN6 power nozzle.
Interestingly though none of the Tristar power nozzles sold in Japan had that feature. No idea how they managed to get around that rule.
 
That is very interesting to hear. I wonder if they got around it because those 2-51 power nozzles are always broken so therefore can't munch up someone's fingers. But really I have no clue. I would think that they would still have the switch on the handle so you could turn the roller off with the nozzle on the floor.
 

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