Hoover Still Cleaning After 80 Years

Cleaning the areas that we live and work in hasattributed mainly to the beater bar that came along
always been part of our lives. Even people living inwith it. This greatly increased the cleaning efficiency
caves have found ways to keep their living areasand is use by most upright vacuum cleaners.
relative clean. The first means of cleaning wereFrom 1926 to the present, Hoover vacuum cleaners
through the use of twigs and sticks. With the manyhave been through many model changes to increase
chores that occupy a common homeowner,the dirt removal efficiency by increasing its suction
inventions were continually being introduced to makepower. New designs in vacuum cleaner bags also
the simple chore of house cleaning less tedious. Whohelped cleaning efficiency. This allowed homeowner to
would have thought that years later a machine thateasily dispose of the collected dust and then
was intentionally used for sweeping the floor wouldreattaching a new one to continue their cleaning task
be manufactured in all shapes and sizes?at hand.
The first vacuum cleaners invented weighed almost aJames Dyson's vacuum design was originally offered
hundred pounds and were too big to easily moveto the Hoover Company for manufacturing and
around. The later improved designs introduced moreproduct release, however, the company foolishly
choices. In the early 1900s, when vacuum cleanersdeclined. Years later when Dyson's design turned out
were gaining popularity across America, a man namedto be the best in the world, Hoover announced that
Murray Spangler built a vacuum cleaner,(originallydeclining the Dyson design was their biggest regret.
called a "suction sweeper") prototype intended toRecently people have found that the new HEPA
suck the dust to prevent his allergies. He convincedvacuum cleaner bags have become much improved.
his cousin Susan Hoover to try the machine byThe filters within these bags do a much better job of
cleaning her house with it. Susan was so convincedremoving dust, pathogens and dust mites then their
that she and her husband, William Henry Hooverpredicessors. They are convenient for homeowners
began producing more of the Spangler design andwho usually wants an easier and faster way to
sold it across America.dispose of the dirt collected in the vacuum. With a
For many years the Hoover was the most popularvacuum cleaner bag, it's as easy as attaching the
brand sold in the United States, mainly becausenew bag, turning on the vacuum cleaner and then
William Henry Hoover offered buyers to use thestart cleaning. If you use a bag less vacuum you do
sweeper for 10 days before they purchase it. Sincenot have to purchase bags but removing the dirt
then, Hoover became a household name: along withfrom the vacuum cleaner is usually a dirty task.
the latest home appliance we now call a vacuumHoover's new models now include bagless vacuum
cleaner, and the popular Hoover vacuum cleanerscleaners, which in turn resulted to more portable and
bags.smaller models.
Hoover was the first to use a cloth filter bag, whichMany people, especially homeowners would argue
is what we know now as the vacuum cleaner bag,that the invention of the vacuum cleaner was one of
and cleaning attachments. An addition to this cleaner'sthe top inventions of the 20th century. The Hoover
salability is its weight. The new machine weighed onlywas the first commercially successful vacuum cleaner
40 pounds, more than half of the original cleaners'that made cleaning less of a chore. Every
weight. In the UK, Hoover cleaners were sold withhomeowner will be forever be thankful for this
the slogan "It beats as it sweeps as it cleans,"invention.