Upright Vacuums
Uprights Bagged or Bagless and Lightweight Units
Upright designs generally employ a rotating brushroll or beater bar, which removes dirt through a combination of sweeping and vibration. The suction of the Motor than moves the dirt uo thru a handle or chamber and disposes it into a paper bag or a dirt cup
There are two types oneis dirty-air/direct fan (found mostly on commercial vacuums), or clean-air/fan-bypass (found on most of today's domestic vacuums). The dirty air vacuums usually have more suction directly on the carpet flooring than clean air units. Dirty air vacuums as I mentioned are mostley used commercialy. There are some goo dirty air vacuums on the market Oreck, Bissell Bgu8000 ,Riccar. these are lightweight and used in housholds. We Prefer The BGU8000 units because it is heavy duty and cleans Bare floor and Carpet. You will not find any dirty air vacuums with tools that are on the machines. You would need to buy a sperate small compact cleaner for that. These cleaners will do a better job than any vacuum that has tools on board
Titan T4000.2 Heavy Duty Upright Vacuum Cleaner with Onboard Tools
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Titan T3200 Upright Vacuum Cleaner with on board tools HEPA Filtration
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Titan T500 Cordless Lightweight Upright Vacuum
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Oreck Commercial Upright Vacuum, Grey/Red U2000R-1
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Oreck Commercial XL2100RHS Commercial Upright Vacuum
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The older of the two uprights designs, direct-fan cleaners have a large impeller (fan) mounted close to the suction opening, through which the dirt passes directly, before being blown into a bag. The motor is often cooled by a separate cooling fan. Because of their large-bladed fans, and comparatively short airpaths, direct-fan cleaners create a very efficient airflow from a low amount of power, and make effective carpet cleaners. Their "above-floor" cleaning power is less efficient, since the airflow is lost when it passes through a long hose, and the fan has been optimized for airflow volume and not suction
Fan-bypass uprights have their motor mounted after the filter bag. Dust is removed from the airstream by the bag, and usually a filter, before it passes through the fan. The fans are smaller, and are usually a combination of several moving and stationary turbines working in sequence to boost power. The motor is cooled by the airstream passing through it. Fan-bypass uprights vacuums are good for both carpet and above-floor cleaning, since their suction does not significantly diminish over the distance of a hose, as it does in direct-fan cleaners. However, their air-paths are much less efficient, and can require more than twice as much power as direct-fan cleaners to achieve the same results.
this is a little history of the domestic uprights vacuum
Domestic vacuum cleaner
A hand-powered pneumatic vacuum cleaner, circa 1910. An early electric-powered model is also shown
The first vacuum-cleaning device to be portable and marketed at the domestic market was built in 1905 by Walter Griffiths, a manufacturer in Birmingham, England.[14] His Griffith's Improved Vacuum Apparatus for Removing Dust from Carpets resembled modern-day cleaners; – it was portable, easy to store, and powered by "any one person (such as the ordinary domestic servant)", who would have the task of compressing a bellows-like contraption to suck up dust through a removable, flexible pipe, to which a variety of shaped nozzles could be attached.
In 1906 James B. Kirby developed his first of many vacuums called the "Domestic Cyclone" It used water for dirt separation. He held over 60 patents on everything from a wringerless washing machine to ironing and dry cleaning equipment.
Early electric vacuum cleaner by Electric Suction Sweeper Company, circa 1908
In 1907 department store janitor James Murray Spangler (1848-1915) of Canton, Ohio invented the first portable electric vacuum cleaner,[10] obtaining a patent for the Electric Suction Sweeper on June 2, 1908. Crucially, in addition to suction from an electric fan that blew the dirt and dust into a soap box and one of his wife's pillow cases, Spangler's design utilized a rotating brush to loosen debris. Unable to produce the design himself due to lack of funding, he sold the patent in 1908 to local leather goods manufacturer William Henry Hoover (1849-1932), who had Spangler's machine redesigned with a steel casing, casters, and attachments, founding the company that in 1922 was renamed the Hoover Company. Their first vacuum was the 1908 Model O, which sold for $60. Subsequent innovations included the beater bar in 1919 ("It beats as it sweeps as it cleans"), disposal filter bags in the 1920s, and an upright vacuum cleaner in 1926.
In Continental Europe, the Fisker and Nielsen company in Denmark was the first to sell vacuum cleaners in 1910. The design weighed just 17.5 kg and could be operated by a single person.
The Swedish company Electrolux launched the innovative Model V in 1921 that was designed to lie on the floor on two thin metal runners. This innovation, conceived by Electrolux founder Axel Wenner-Gren, became a standard feature on generations of future vacuum cleaners. There is a recorded example of a 1930s Electrolux vacuum cleaner surviving in use for over 70 years, finally breaking in 2008.[15]
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