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  2. A Guide to the Most Common Vacuum Attachments (and What ... - AOL

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    A soft floor attachment generally doesn't have traditional bristles but uses an internal spinning brush roller to draw out and trap hair and other debris from wall-to-wall carpet and area rugs ...

  3. Fitted carpet - Wikipedia

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    Fitted carpet, also wall-to-wall carpet, is a carpet intended to cover a floor entirely. Carpet over 4 meters in length is usually installed with the use of a power-stretcher (tubed or tubeless). Carpet over 4 meters in length is usually installed with the use of a power-stretcher (tubed or tubeless).

  4. Carpet sweeper - Wikipedia

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    A carpet sweeper typically consists of a small box. The base of the box has wheels and brushes, connected by a belt or gears or rollers. There is also a container for dirt. The arrangement is such that, when pushed along a floor, the rollers/wheels turn and force the brushes to rotate. The brushes sweep dirt and dust from the floor into the ...

  5. M14 mine - Wikipedia

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    In order to activate the M14, the base plug is removed and discarded and an M46 stab detonator is screwed into the base of the mine. Then the mine is placed into a shallow hole in the ground (flush with the surface) and the pressure plate is carefully rotated from its safety position to the armed position using the special arming spanner supplied in each crate of mines.

  6. Carpet cleaning - Wikipedia

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    A 98% biodegradable or other, [2] slightly moist absorbent cleaning compound may be spread evenly over carpet and brushed or scrubbed in. For small areas, a household hand brush can work such a compound into carpet pile; working like "tiny sponges", the attracted cleaning solution dissolves dirt, and dirt and grime is attracted/absorbed to the compound.

  7. Vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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    Patent model of Daniel Hess's carpet sweeper. In 1860 a manual vacuum cleaner was invented by Daniel Hess of West Union, Iowa. Called a "carpet sweeper", it gathered dust with a rotating brush and had a bellows for generating suction. [4] [5] Another early model (1869) was the "Whirlwind", invented in Chicago in 1868 by Ives W. McGaffey. The ...

  8. Category:Farming tools - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural Tools A group tools used either farming, culture, ceremony etc. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. B.

  9. Teeter-totter - Wikipedia

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