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I would agree with you. And it wasn't just Hoover that was this way, but most any of the bagless upright vacs of the late 90s and early 2000s were far inferior.


The Eurekas and earlier Panasonics/Kenmores and Bissells also all had the pleated filters that clogged easily, some had various designs to slightly separate the filter from the dust bin, but all required lots of work to maintain.


I think you are right on the patents expiring, because it really was around 2009/2010 when all of the other manufacturers started designing TRUE dual cyclonic bagless uprights that didn't have the clogging issues of their earlier models.


Up until then the only really good bagless uprights I'm aware of were the Fantoms/Vectrons, Kenmore-branded Fantoms and the Amway Cleartrak. All variations of the Dyson design. Nobody else would have been allowed to use it. The Amway Cleartrak is the only one of those I know of still in production.


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