If a squeegee is scraped over the carpet it will lift up embedded hairs and dust that would just get pushed down by the vacuum cleaner,Liverpool Echo reports.

SPGPrints is strengthening its commitment to optimising quality in rotary screen printing by investing in new squeegee blade production facilities at its Boxmeer (Netherlands) plant.

It also features spray nozzles on the front to supply the cleaning agent solution, rotating roller brushes that work the solution into the carpet helps the operator by providing an additional traction drive - both forwards and backwards - and a squeegee that wipes the dirt and solution away.

The Vikan thread fits securely on all Vikan's brushes, squeegees and scrapers.

The Filmop Brillante Surface Cleaning System eliminates the need to use squeegees for large interior windows or mirrors.

The squeegee produces a range of material and visual effects depending on factors such as the pressure exerted by the artist, the elasticity of the canvas at different points on its surface, the heaviness of the paint and its oil-to-pigment ratio.

"In the early 20th century, screen printing was reinvented, but since it was mainly used then for artistic and craft purposes, no one until relatively recently cared about the technology," said Alex Zucherman, a member of the Academy of Screen Printing Technology (ASPT) and chairman of Fimor S.A., Le Mans, France, a maker of screen printing blades or squeegees.

It follows a string of complaints from drivers, many of them female or travelling alone, who say they feel afraid sometimes threatened by the approach of some of the 'squeegees'.

* Cannot be used for structured PCBs because the squeegees cannot remove excess material from between the conductors.

Such is the allure of the surrealistic Placas de ruas (Street Signs), a set of fifteen delicate miniaturized street signs mummified in blue bandages; the post-Minimal-looking Paralelepipedo, a clunky wooden cart designed to carry exactly three beaten-up bricks; and the astonishingly stylized Tres rodos (Three Squeegees), an ode to the symmetry of the squeegee.

Just enough cleaning supplies, a few squeegees and a couple of ladders for hard-to-reach windows.

Similarly, according to The Toronto Star: "Unlike the New York squeegees, Toronto's bunch are younger, white, the majority homeless, and, in typical Canadian fashion, more polite" (The Toronto Star, 08/08/96: G10).

of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a manufacturer of screen printing equipment, was seeking a suitable alternative to the pneumatic drives that operate the movement of the squeegees on its carousel-type textile presses.

As he sponges and squeegees, a clear plastic scrim is periodically lowered from the ceiling to the floor of the stage.

using 170mm size ultrasonically powered 60[degrees] squeegees operated at a pressure setting of 4.6kg.