Singer Twin Fan Bissell rebrand question?

[vacuumchannel6]

So from what I know there was the Kenmore/singer twin fan line of vacuum cleaners, and I hear there was also a Bissell version was that true, I've been looking for photos of one or to find if even one exists but I assume they're very rare, I know Bissell makes bags for the singer twin fan and you can find them online still to this day. And I know that the singer soft bag vacuums from the '90s share the same cord hook as the singer twin fan so I'm thinking there must have been a Bissell twin fan and I hear from some people on vacuum land from way back that they have been spotted, is this true? Unfortunately I don't have any photos but that would be one of the next to rarest vacuums that are my dream machines. Can somebody verify this or possibly find photos I know they're extraordinarily rare

 

[eurekaprince]

I don’t think Singer ever made a twin-fan upright for Bissell. Singer sold their patented twin fan upright under the Singer name, and also under the Kenmore and Sunbeam names. The only other company selling an upright with two fans and two suction channels was General Electric.

The “bag in the front” Bissell uprights of the 1990’s only had one fan on one side - similar to a Hoover Elite.

 

[panasonicvac]

From what I read on here, one did exist. And it'd make sense because the Twin Fans were made by Ryobi who also made the Hoover Elite copies for Bissell.

 

[eurekaprince]

Oh….I thought the Bissell uprights made by Ryobi only had one fan. Be interesting to see the underside of one of them.

 

[vacuumchannel6]

Also...

Here's some bags for a singer twin fan made for Bissell, might be a clue to wether they exist just going to throw that out there.

 

[eurekaprince]

I think that that is just a package of dust bags made by Bissell for the Singer Twin-Fan upright. It seems to reflect a weird phenomenon in vacuum cleaner history, where vacuum companies packaged dust bags for their own machines, along with competitor’s cleaners. Eureka never did this, but I do remember seeing a pack of dust bags made by Hoover for a Eureka vacuum.

 

[panasonicvac]

Bissell and Hoover didn't make the bags, they got them from paper companies just like everybody else. Even these genuine Simplicity type A bags aren't made by Tacony, yet it shows in the packaging they also fit on Panasonic type U vacuums but Panasonic did make a canister for Simplicity called the Summit. Eureka's F&G bags also fits on those Singers as well as Koblenz and Royal, coincidentally Bissell now owns Eureka's commercial brand Sanitaire. So I believe one does exist now that the package of bags were distributed by Bissell that also say they fit on Singer. Proof I have is on the Bissell style 2 bags, they say they also fit on Singer but not on Hoover which they in fact do (of course Hoover ended up suing Bissell for copying their Elites) All I know is that Ryobi was the manufacture for Bissell, Singer, and Sears. I have a Kenmore Heavy Duty Twin Fan that's made by Ryobi.