12/6/2023 0 Comments Phantom fury cannister vacuum![]() ![]() In October 2001, Fantom Technologies filed bankruptcy and ceased operations, meaning ALL Fantoms were now orphans and the warranty was no longer in force. People returned them in droves, right up until the company went BANKRUPT. This model was called the Wildcat, and it was HORRIBLE. They took out the double cyclone system, opting for a series of depth filters instead, which WERE washable. ![]() They said "let's make the machine for less money, and not pay James". They decided that paying James a royalty for the dual cyclonic technology he designed and patented was for the birds. In 2001, Fantom Technologies made a HUGE blunder. Fantom wanted NO part of a lifetime belt either. James designed the clutch, which not only turned the brush bar OFF for bare floor cleaning, but protected the belt so it would never break. Fantom refused to use lifetime, washable filters, and this made James furious. James had designed lifetime MEMA filters (Maximum Efficiency, Maximum Airflow), but Fantom did NOT want them, prefering to charge $75 for a new Hepa filter (change once a year). IONA changed its name to Fantom Technologies, but GREED started to get the better of them. The Lightning proved another huge seller for IONA as well as the Kenmore Destiny III (which the Lightning was called at Sears). But the only other choices in Bagless uprights were the Fantom Thunder and Fury, and the Amway ClearTrak (which the CMS 1000 became after a few minor cosmetic changes).ĭyson came out with his canister cleaner, Called DC02, and Fantom came out with the Lightning canister a year later. Horrible, klunky, bulky design, with a clogging filter behind the 'dirt cup' that acted like a diaper, catching the dust the single cyclone failed to. Sears would get them also, as the Kenmore Bagless. Eureka noticed.Įureka came out, six months later, with the first "whirlwind" bagless upright. IONA sold more than a quarter million Fury's in one month of Informericals. It was called the Fantom Fury, and was sold through a brilliant series of Infomercials. IONA decided to make a smaller version, lighter in weight than the Thunder, and with a built-in Hepa filter (which the Thunder, until 1995, did NOT have). The IONA machine was called the Fantom (Thunder) and the Sears version was called the Destiny. When Johnson Wax decided to abandon the commercial vacuum cleaner market two years later (1991), IONA decided to make the machine and sell it themselves through Infomercials and throush Sears stores (for which they were making James' NovaDry carpet shampooer machine). James designed it, and it was a very sturdy, well built machine. ![]() In the United States and Canada, a Company called IONA made a cleaner for S C Johnson Wax, called the Vectron, which was sold as a commercial upright vacuum. The settlement in the Amway case (together with a healthy bank loan) gave James the funds to begin his own manufacturing business, making cleaners under his own name.Įverywhere in the world, except North America. The buyers at Sears at first were delighted with the NovaDry, but soon told James that they had seen the same thing before, as an AMWAY. This was also known as the NovaDry, which used Capture dry carpet shampoo, the machine would dispense, brush, and then vacuum with dual cyclonic suction (which never clogged). James found out about this machine AFTER he designed a new carpet shampooer for Sears, called the DryTech. Yet, the DID come out with the machine in the U.S. System).Īmway (or should I say "scamway") went BACK to England and told James they would NOT be making the cleaner, and gave him back his industrial drawings and patents. They said YES and the result was the Amway CMS 1000 (CMS stands for Carpet Maint. Amway went to Bissell in Michigan and asked them if they could make the machine. They went to England and he let them have the patents and blueprints to the machine. The Amway Corporation's VP's were made aware of the existence of the machine, and contracted with James to license the technology. He contracted with a company called "KleenEze" to sell the machines door to door. James held the patent on dual cyclonic bagless vacuums. ![]() (I own all the vacuums I'm writing about, and will post pics to this thread later.)īack in 1984, James Dyson asked a manufacturer named Zanusi in Italy to make 500 vacuums that he designed. ![]()
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