Hoky carpet sweeper - evaluation

Whole Earth Review, Summer, 1988 by Toni Garret

A carpet sweeper is inexpensive, lightweight, and easy to pug out to sweep up a few spills. These very features are touted heavily in the current advertising campaigns for electric brooms. ("Is your vacuum cleaner a drag to pull out of the closet? Then buy an electric broom!') A corpet sweeper is an "old-fashioned" tool that seems to hove been forgotten obout in the wake of the vacuumcleaner generation.

The advantages to a portable, nonelectric appliance are many: you can reach every comer without changing the plug, you don't hove to lug around a heavy machine (which can get hung up on furniture), and you don't hove a cord to trip over

The Hoky carpet sweeper is very compact and efficient - it works great! Many major airlines (United, TWA, JAL, etc.), hotels (Hyatt Regency, Hilton), and restaurants all over the world use a Hoky daily.

The commercial model is all-steel construction - durable and efficient. Works on oil types of floors: hard floors or carpeting, including deep pile and long loop. The compact size (91/2 - x 8- x 2 1/2") gets into and under tight spoces. Natural-bristle rotor brush (more durable than synthetic brushes); four corner brushes to reach the wo/is, four-section steel handle comes apart for storage, and vinyl bumper to protect furniture. Cleans rugs and bare floors of everything from flour to pins, pet hair, threads, lint, sand, popcorn, and plain old dirt. Good for a clean sweep! -Toni Garret

Hoky 24S: $30 postpaid from Hoky International Marketing Company, Inc., P.O. Box 803, Lakeville, MN 55044; 612/469-5433 (or Whole Earth Access).