Curious Filter Queen Accessory Listing

[tinytyke]

Someone is listing a "possibly possessed" Filter Queen vibrator. No, don't look at me. Check this out: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Possibly-Po...395386?hash=item3d0de940fa:g:W-YAAOSw5dNWjGpo

 

[delaneymeegan]

Kinky

 


Who said the 1950s were a prudish time?

 

[caligula]

Filter Queen Vibrator.

I love this, the pictures look interesting, and reply 1. is quite suggestive. However, vibrators on vacuum cleaners are not new. Did you know that Eureka started out as a vibrator company before turning to vacuum cleaners? We all tend to think erotic things when we say vibrator, but the idea was to relieve tension? No, not that type of tention!!! Aching shoulders, feet, and so on.

The first known vibrator on a vacuum cleaner was the Federal Electric circa 1910, and of course the Kirby Classic Omega had one. Fact is it's a useless feature to help close the sale. Many a husband was sold on the Kirby because of the Handi-Butler. Now it wasn't a vacuum demo, the husband saw power tools, and signed on the dotted line, forgetting the fact that he'd never use the drill or sander.

This is not as strange as the bonnet hair dryer or the clothes dryer thingy. Filter Queen suggested that you hook that up to the blower end atop the motor to dry things. Nylons and undies were about all it was good for, but these, like the Garment Aire bag Electrolux had were all gimicks, but they sold the machines.

And if nothing else, that vibrator will bring a few laughs.

 

[electrolux137]

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Kirby's vibrator product was called the "Swedish Massage." It was an accessory for the Handi-Butler that actually came out with the Classic.

It consisted of an eccentric weight enclosed in a plastic cap that snapped onto the end of the Handi-Butler Flexible Shaft. When the Kirby motor was running and the Handi-Butler was attached, the eccentric weight caused a pretty vigorous vibration that indeed was good for "relaxing sore shoulders and necks."

It apparently was also good for "relaxing other things." Back in the mid-to-late 1970s I worked for a Kirby dealership rebuilding trade-ins. The manager of the dealership was quite a character. One of his wink-wink-nudge-nudge lines to husbands [after the sale was closed, of course...] was “If you wake up in the middle of the night and your wife has locked herself in the bathroom with the new Kirby, she’s probably not using it to shampoo the rug...”)

Here's a screen shot from the Classic instruction manual. And the link below takes you to a PDF of the complete instruction manual!

http://kirbywhq.powweb.com/manuals/classic/D8BB864BF762B839AF4D4A512B2889CA/Kirby Classic Manual.pdf

 

[caligula]

Thank you Charles:

That info escaped me when I was writing that, so I simply spoke in general terms.