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Show First Vacuum Cleaner. The vacuum cleaner which has only recently come into favor, was covered by a patent granted in 1SG9 to Daniel Hess of West Union, la. His device was a carpet sweeper in which as it rolled over the floor a bellows operated oper-ated to create a suction, draw dust up from the carpet and discharge it into pans of water, the bellows being worked from a crank on one of the supj crting rollers. This cleaner closely close-ly resembles those marketed today iu that it has a broad flat nozzle to move along the floor, a handle extending ex-tending up to be grasped by one of the operator's hands, while the other hand turns a drive pulley geared by a rope with a fan which sucks the dust up into a receptacle carried by the handle above the fan. A machine following this plan of more than 40 years ago, if well mae mechanically. v.-ould present a good appearance alongside of the modern machines, and doubtless would give good reults in actual use. |