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Definition of Carpet sweeper
1. Noun. A cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet.
Generic synonyms: Cleaning Device, Cleaning Equipment, Cleaning Implement
Derivative terms: Sweep, Sweep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpet Sweeper
Literary usage of Carpet sweeper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Housewifery: A Manual and Text Book of Practical Housekeeping by Lydia Ray Balderston (1921)
"carpet sweeper.—Cost, $3-$6. This is a small box on wheels, ... As the brush
passes over the rug in the same way that the carpet sweeper ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... Carpet-Sweeper Co. (US) 72 Fed. 67, 74, 19 CCA 18. The "principle of a machine"
Is properly defined to be its "mode of operation," or that peculiar ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"Or a Bissell's carpet sweeper for daily sweeping. Its use in connection with the
Bissell's Vacuum Sweeper for general suction cleaning is the favorite ..."
4. Hand Book of the United States Tariff: Containing the Tariff Act of 1913 by Vandegrift, F.B., & Co, United States (1913)
"Carpet-sweeper brushes, manufactured by the Bissell carpet sweeper Company, of
Grand Rapids, Mich., in part from imported bristles. TD 24486. ..."
5. Vacuum Cleaning Systems: A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of by Maxwell Stephens Cooley (1913)
"Limitations of the carpet sweeper.—This device, with its light brush and equally
light pressure on the surface cleaned and its limited capacity for carrying ..."
6. Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home by Christine Frederick, American School of Home Economics (1919)
"It consists of a box built like a carpet sweeper in which is contained a bellows.
These bellows are operated whenever the cleaner is moved backward or ..."
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