DESPERATELY need help!!

This may not be a question that can be answered because practices of cleaning carpets have been around as long as there have been carpets, and without patents. The best I can personally do for you is offer you this link.

http://www.burrows.com/carpetcleaning/index.html
     
Scroll down until you see the Princess Carpet Sweeper (a device still used by Kenny Harris under the Titan brand) and read the comments directly above. At that time they were already using pipe-clay as an absorbent and then sweeping the clay off as means of cleaning (Kenny uses copier toner). That type of sweeper, then, would be an early example of such a device, yet it would not have a patent for that express purpose. Therefore, you're off the hook for finding the inventor of the "first" such machine, since it is unknowable.

(And yes, pipe-clay can be considered a chemical.)(And no, don't buy from Kenny)


Edited by FriendlyHammer - 22/October/2007 at 12:39am

Edited by nightrider - 13/November/2007 at 9:43pm

Carpetologist wrote: Cleaning Newb     Sometime in the mid 1800's while having sex with my  maid she spilled the coal oil lamp on my soiled loin cloth, my loincloth  became clean again.  Hence a cleaning solvent was discovered and we had more time for sex   As for carpet cleaning that goes back to my uncle Roman.  He would beat his wife with a bamboo pole while she jumped all over the carpet with pain and then he threw them them in the river.   I guess good old H2'0  (water) was the cleaning chemical of the time.

Edited by nightrider - 13/November/2007 at 9:43pm

One thing I know about Kenny is that his wife and family are important to him over everything else.....................................the only reason I think he's not posting is either he is here using another handle and fooling us.............or...................we're all not really here posting and fooling him

Leave it to the convict to come up with the wife jokes