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A few months later, on May 12, 1896, he patented a dust-proof collection bag for the street sweeper (US Patent #560,154). [ 4 ] Although little information is available about his life, we do know that funding for the production for his sweeper was provided by George M. Hallstead and Plummer S. Page. [ 5 ] The production took place in Scranton ...
The first invention credited to Parpart is a street sweeper designed to automate the process of cleaning city streets. Parpart filed two patents for this invention (No. 649,609 [32] in 1899 and no. 762,241 [33] in 1901), both of which listed Hiram D. Layman as co-inventor despite his being only an investor.
A tinkerer at heart, he set his mind to making an electric carpet sweeper. While watching a rotary street sweeper in operation, Spangler got the idea to mount the motor from a ceiling fan onto a carpet sweeper and cut a hole in the back of the sweeper to attach fan blades which would blow dirt out of the rear of the cleaner into an attached ...
A street sweeper or street cleaner is a person or machine that cleans streets. People have worked in cities as " sanitation workers " since sanitation and waste removal became a priority. A street-sweeping person would use a broom and shovel to clean off litter , animal waste and filth that accumulated on streets.
The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references for an inventor.
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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 ...
David T. Kenney (April 3, 1866 – May 26?, 1922) was an inventor with nine patents, granted between 1903 and 1913, applicable to both machine-driven and manual vacuum cleaners, dominated the vacuum cleaner industry in the United States until the 1920s.