Carpet scrubber with improved brush

A carpet cleaning apparatus comprising:

• a frame, a housing mounted on said frame, means forming a powder dispensing chamber, a brush chamber and a vacuum chamber in said housing, a powder dispensing roll in said dispensing chamber, a collection bag in said vacuum chamber, brush means in said brush chamber, a single drive means driving said powder dispensing roll and said brush means, and handle means to move said carpet cleaning apparatus over an area to be cleaned, said brush means including at least two brushes, each of said brushes having a plurality of groups of rows of elongated bristles with the bristles in each row forming a substantially straight line and being substantially the same length, each of said groups of rows of bristles having an outer circumference substantially less than an arc with a subtended angle of 20.degree. and with the groups of one brush being out-of-phase with the groups of the other brush, each of said brush means having an axis of rotation substantially parallel to each other which are spaced from one another a distance slightly greater than the radial length of said rows of bristles, said drive means rotating said brushes in a cylindrical path to allow the interdigitation of said brushes to allow intensified cleaning action on the carpet to be cleaned.