Rare Vintage Power Nozzles

[collector2]

Hey Philip:

The original Filter Queen PN was kind of a T shaped PN in white with the Filter Queen name on it. It was European made but I cant remember the company that made it. The first ones had a brown cord with a normal plug on it that ran to a plug on the machine. Later ones had a grey cord with the, now standard, PN plug on them. There were no special wands for it so it just attached to the standard S shaped wand via an adapter which was rivited into the elbow. I had one of them but lost it in the fire in April.
Doug

 

[kirbyvertibles]

countryguy, I wondered if 1972 might have been the year the pn that we all knew as the filter queen pn came out. I was told it came out for sure in 1978 but my 31 is dated 1972 on the armature and so I had a feeling that was when they came out and now you confirmed that thanks!!

Doug and Jimmy, thanks so much for the info on the original filter queen pn. The one that I saw was infact white like Doug said but had forgot what it looked like. Whould that have been a 31 or another model?

 

[collector2]

Yep. It would have been with the Chrome and Brown (metal tank) model 31.

 

[fan-of-fans]

Regarding the Kenmore Powermate with long cord and plug discussed above. On ebay recently there was a white PN that was essentially the same as the one on the 1972 Sears Best canister that came in green and had the narrow width and big headlight housing on top. This one however, was white and had a long cord with regular wall plug on the end. I had assumed that it was for a central vac system as they typically got white PNs, but perhaps it was also a "fit all" design.

 

[rugsucker]

Sears central vac

At one time the Sears central vac used the same Power Mate and standard hose end as the canister Kenmores.There was then an adapter that went between the wand and hose that was a short(apprx 6 in)section of wand with the electric connections and swith with the lond cord running beside hose to the nearest wall outlet.

 

[Davinator1977]

old kenmore powermate

funny that you don't see many of these around anymore either

 

[alexb1186]

Whirlpool V-150 L-Shaped Powerhead

Circa 1967-1969? Still needs a canister though

 

[kirbyvertibles]

LOOK AT THE PIC I FOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The rare original Filter Queen PWR Nozzle

 

[kirbyvertibles]

I would love to see an underside of this

 

[1926700]

Hey Alex I have Sears

1969 and it does not picture this PN, its maybe more like 1964, 1965, or 66.



COOL FILTER QUEEN POWER HEAD PHILL!!!!! Wasn't that Tom G's pic??

 

[kenkart]

Kenmore L shape..

Was made only 2 years ,1961-1962, Pink in 61, two tone green in 62, the Whirlpool shown by Alex was the exact same, but was somewhat later.1961 being Sears 75th anniversary they went all out with the Whispertone vacuum, it had the L shaped power nozzle, a pistol grip direct connect hose, two speed motor, quick change bag and was ,as the name suggested, very quiet.

 

[rugsucker]

Whispertone-Whirlpool

I think only the pink W-Tone had the quick change bag.One of the best pictures I have seen on the above tan W-pool nozzle was a 1965 'stamp' catalog(not S&H).Atts were white.Sears & W-Pool were almost the same but W-P got the style and looks.Sears got the direct connect hose.They were by one of the better industrial design firms that also did ranges.

 

[dysonman1]

The L Shaped Whirlpool Power Nozzle was private labeled for Rexair in 1969. Complete with pistol grip electric hose, it was an option designed to "make a sale or save a sale" with the advent of shag carpeting. The Rainbow's second power nozzle was made by Whirlpool as well, but was the same small nozzle used on the commercial Oreck canister of the early 1970's. In 1974, Rexair began using Eureka's new Roto-Matic power nozzle, which continued until they made their own nozzle in 1980.