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Ives W. McGaffey

Ives W. McGaffey wordt algemeen gezien als de uitvinder van de stofzuiger. Hij ontwikkelde het apparaat van 1865 tot 1868 in een kelder in Chicago.

De Whirlwind

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Het was een met de hand aangedreven, op het vacuümprincipe gebaseerd apparaat, gemaakt uit hout en zeildoek. Hoewel het apparaat licht van gewicht en compact gebouwd was, was het nogal moeilijk te bedienen omdat men gelijktijdig met het voortbewegen van het apparaat over de vloer een hefboom moest bedienen. McGaffey ontving een patent^[1] op zijn apparaat op 5 juni1869 en riep de hulp in van The American Carpet Cleaning Co. in Boston om het onder de naam Whirlwind op de markt te brengen, hoofdzakelijk in Chicago en Boston. De zuiger werd verkocht voor $25, een voor die tijd erg hoge prijs.

Het is moeilijk te achterhalen hoe succesvol de Whirlwind was. De meeste apparaten zijn verkocht in Chicago en Boston en het is aannemelijk dat veel van deze apparaten verloren zijn gegaan tijdens de grote brand van Chicago in 1871 en de grote brand van Boston een j

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Patent of the Day: Improved Sweeping-Machine (Vacuum)

Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent of the Day.

On this day in 1869, Ives W. McGaffey was granted U.S. Patent No. 91,145 for an IMPROVED SWEEPING-MACHINE.

Before vacuum cleaners existed, people would take their carpets outside to beat the dirt out of them. In 1797, the broom was perfected in Massachusetts, and not long after people sought a better, less tedious, and more technologically advanced way to clean. In the 1850s, carpet sweepers that used a manual system of pulleys and cranks that rotated a brush or sweeping apparatus to push dirt into a receptacle were invented.

Chicago inventor Ives McGaffey patented the first device for cleaning rugs. He called his machine “Whirlwind”. His vacuum was difficult to use because the operator had to manually turn a crank while pushing it across the floor. McGaffey’s invention was not a motorized or electric vacuum cleaner, but it is known as the first hand-pumped vacuum cleaner in the United States. McGaffey is credited by many histo

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Well, even though I’m not living the Orange County Dream, (House with a foundation that meets sand and an ocean in my backyard I can surf fish in.) I’m still extremely grateful for the lifestyle I live. I hated working for other people, being in at a certain time, doing things “their” way. It just wasn’t for me. Vacuum cleaners have enabled me leave for lunch when I want, take vacations at my leisure, and spend quality time with my family at work over the summer. (Though my sons have a different name for time spent at the shop, slave labor.)

I feel it’s time I pay homage to the people that developed my industry by writing a “History of Vacuum Cleaners”. I’ll cover who invented the first vacuum cleaner, how vacuum cleaners became an essential cleaning tool for most homes, and even poke fun at some of the nobler than useful vacuum cleaner designs. So, without further delay, here is my History of Vacuum Cleaners as told by the Vacuum Sensei.

Origins of the Modern Vacuum Cleaner
There were several precursors to the vacuum cleane