In the 1950s, Electrolux had an HVLP spray painting attachment that operated off the exhaust end of their vacuum cleaners. There are photos at this link:
(It's the glass jar thing with a nozzle on its lid.)
It did work. I can recall my dad painting bedroom furniture in the backyard with one. He was applying some sort of grey 'flecktone' finish, which I imagine was thought to be quite stylish at the time.
That's what those glass appliances are for! I've seen them before, but never knew their function! Thanks for this. BTW, that's quite the website. Quite the collection, even though vacuum cleaners suck!
Vibrators, glass appliances? I thought you'd need to go through the bead curtain at the back of the store for those items LOL!! That Electrolux website is pretty cool - I think we have had a few of those models years ago. I also vaguely remember another machine, probably in the 60's (a Hoover maybe?) that didn't have any wheels on it at all - it ran on a cushion of air, like a hovercraft.
Re Steve: My father John, served his apprenticeship at HOOVER-UK back in the 1940's and the vacuum cleaner Steve mentions is called a 'Constellation' which floated on a cushion of air. It was of fully aluminium construction, with a split lifting top section to access the filter and bag. I remember the various attachments for it, like the Electrolux, including a paint sprayer, a foaming car wash attachment and sand blaster, which were connected to the exit blow hole on the base of the unit. To this day I still have my mother's old HOOVER floor polisher, with twin rotating polishing heads. A marvellous piece of engineering and still used/working today! Rich Brain
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ReplyDeleteIn the 1950s, Electrolux had an HVLP spray painting attachment that operated off the exhaust end of their vacuum cleaners. There are photos at this link:
http://smithcollection.altervista.org/electrolux-canada.html
(It's the glass jar thing with a nozzle on its lid.)
It did work. I can recall my dad painting bedroom furniture in the backyard with one. He was applying some sort of grey 'flecktone' finish, which I imagine was thought to be quite stylish at the time.
That's what those glass appliances are for! I've seen them before, but never knew their function! Thanks for this. BTW, that's quite the website. Quite the collection, even though vacuum cleaners suck!
DeleteVibrators, glass appliances? I thought you'd need to go through the bead curtain at the back of the store for those items LOL!!
DeleteThat Electrolux website is pretty cool - I think we have had a few of those models years ago. I also vaguely remember another machine, probably in the 60's (a Hoover maybe?) that didn't have any wheels on it at all - it ran on a cushion of air, like a hovercraft.
Re Steve: My father John, served his apprenticeship at HOOVER-UK back in the 1940's and the vacuum cleaner Steve mentions is called a 'Constellation' which floated on a cushion of air. It was of fully aluminium construction, with a split lifting top section to access the filter and bag. I remember the various attachments for it, like the Electrolux, including a paint sprayer, a foaming car wash attachment and sand blaster, which were connected to the exit blow hole on the base of the unit. To this day I still have my mother's old HOOVER floor polisher, with twin rotating polishing heads. A marvellous piece of engineering and still used/working today!
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