Category: Vacuum Cleaner

If there’s one thing Dyson seems to be really good at, apart from selling plastic vacuum cleaners for top dollar, it’s suing people when they step out of line and this time it’s Samsungs turn for ripping off a Dyson patent.

The manufacturer of Hoover and Dirt Devil brand vacuum cleaners was the winning bidder for rival Oreck in a bankruptcy auction offering at least $24.4 million to outbid members of the Oreck family.

Keeping a home spotless might be much easier with the launch of a new vacuum cleaner, which promises to pack dust into tightly-packed cubes. The Compression Vacuum Cleaner packs the dust it hoovers up in the bagless container, making it easier to empty and also enabling it to collect four times a…

Further to the news posted yesterday from an anonymous source, we presume it was Dyson themselves, Qualtex have issued a press release in relation to this case late yesterday as well. The release makes several points that frame much of the real significance of this ruling. The main body of the re…

Homespares have launched a new range of SWIRL “Micropor” vacuum cleaner bags offering a higher quality and longer lasting bag than previously available.

A GLASGOW inventor and his friends are aiming to hoover up the vacuum-cleaner market and beat Sir James Dyson with a new machine. After 11 years of development in a garden shed, Gorbals-born Mike Rooney and Maryhill’s Matt Neely have created the Airrider – a hovercraft-inspired vacuum cleaner.

As reported some weeks ago Dyson took Qualtex to court stating that Qualtex infringed it’s rights by producing “pattern” spares for Dyson cleaners. At that point we expected an imminent verdict but it has taken until now to get the results of the case.

Seemingly not content with with simply seeing all the dirt from their carpets spinning around and around, UK consumers are soon to get introduced to a vac that has been crossbred with a hovercraft!

It’s only two weeks till a judgement is finally heard in the High Court regarding the case brought by Dyson against Qualtex for producing “copy” spares for the controversial British brand. The outcome is expected to be a “split decision” which will, in effect, mean that Qualtex may well still be …

How our dirty floors led us to a world of $2,000 vacuum cleaners, HEPA filters, motor bypass systems and the knowledge that a cleaning appliance can be stylish and sexy