Home cleaning specialist Bissell has a mid-way solution: the Natural Sweeper. One of the company’s OG floor cleaners (an invention of founder Melville Bissell back in 1887), it does one better ...

Bissell has been making floor cleaners for 147 years, starting with a floor sweeper. In 1957, the company introduced its first (manual) carpet shampooer, and in 1979, the first Bissell carpet deep ...

In 1956, Bissell introduced the manual carpet shampooer ... Hopkins sent out 5,000 letters offering the carpet sweepers as Christmas presents and received 1,000 orders - unprecedented at the ...

Use a carpet sweeper. Bissell sells several models of mechanical manual sweepers—an invention that's been around in some form since the 1880s. They work, but only to an extent. For deep cleaning ...

These manual devices involved cranks ... Seven years later, Melville and Anna Bissell patented the Bissell Carpet Sweeper, developed to keep the air in the couple’s crockery shop clean and ...

Not only did she help her husband design and market the Bissell carpet sweeper, but she took over and expanded the company after his death. (Matt Jaworowski/WOOD TV8) Aside from being a successful ...