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CARPET BRUSH [6 records]

Record 1 2005-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Housework
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings
DEF

A carpet cleaning technique in which a detergent solution is worked into the pile by a motor-driven rotating brush.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ménage
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol
DEF

Technique de nettoyage des tapis et moquettes suivant laquelle une solution détergente est forcée à l'intérieur du velours à l'aide de brosses rotatives actionnées par un moteur (shampooineuse).

CONT

Depuis le début de ses activités en 1996, le Service d'entretien Atlantique offre un éventail complet de services professionnels en entretien ménager [...] Lavage de tapis - Brossage rotatif [...]

OBS

Les particules de saleté délogées par l'action des brosses et de la solution sont subséquemment enlevées par aspiration.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings
DEF

[A carpet] cleaners’ term for the process of erecting the damp and disheveled pile after shampooing by means of a pile brush or pile lifting machine.

CONT

Pay extra for pre-spotting, vacuuming, pile setting, deep scrubbing, dual/triple processes or other so-called enhancements to cleaning.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol
DEF

Terme utilisé par les nettoyeurs de tapis pour désigner le redressement des fils mouillés et entremêlés après un shampooing à l'aide d'une brosse à velours ou d'une machine à redresser le velours.

Spanish

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Record 3 1988-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Household Cleaning and Maintenance
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings
OBS

"rotary brush machine" : Term provided by the Canadian Carpet Institute, Ottawa.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de nettoyage et d'entretien (Arts ménagers)
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol

Spanish

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Record 4 1988-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Household Cleaning and Maintenance
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings
DEF

a special fabric bonnet that is placed under a rotary brush machine. The cleaning agent is sprayed lightly onto the bonnet and onto a small section of the carpet. As the rotary brush spins over the surface of the carpet the moistened bonnet picks up loosened soil. Then the bonnet is loosened to remove soil, replaced and the procedure is repeated.

OBS

Information received from the Canadian Carpet Institute.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de nettoyage et d'entretien (Arts ménagers)
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol

Spanish

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Record 5 1988-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings
OBS

Granules or powdery particles are saturated with water, detergent and a small amount of solvent and are brushed in and through the carpet pile by a cylindrical twin brush machine. Soil and grit adheres to the compound particles and are extracted with a beater-bar type vacuum. Any remaining compound continues to absorb soil until later vacuuming.

OBS

Often referred to as absorbent compound cleaning.

OBS

Information received from the Canadian Carpet Institute, Ottawa.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol
OBS

Terme fourni par le Service de traduction aux Laboratoires Choisy Ltée.

Spanish

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Record 6 1987-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Household Cleaning and Maintenance
OBS

Suction alone isn’t enough to save a vacuum cleaner from embarrassment on a deep-pile carpet. Success is as much a function of beater/brush design...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de nettoyage et d'entretien (Arts ménagers)
CONT

La force de la succion n'est pas le seul critère d'efficacité d'un aspirateur vertical sur du tapis à poils longs. La conception de la brosse de battage, du corps et du ventilateur (...) ont aussi leur importance.

Spanish

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