EP1832215A2 - Vertikale Reinigungsvorrichtungen - Google Patents

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EP1832215A2
EP1832215A2 EP07250886A EP07250886A EP1832215A2 EP 1832215 A2 EP1832215 A2 EP 1832215A2 EP 07250886 A EP07250886 A EP 07250886A EP 07250886 A EP07250886 A EP 07250886A EP 1832215 A2 EP1832215 A2 EP 1832215A2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/28—Installation of the electric equipment, e.g. adaptation or attachment to the suction cleaner; Controlling suction cleaners by electric means
    • A47L9/2889—Safety or protection devices or systems, e.g. for prevention of motor over-heating or for protection of the user
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L11/00—Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L11/40—Parts or details of machines not provided for in groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, or not restricted to one of these groups, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L5/00—Structural features of suction cleaners
    • A47L5/12—Structural features of suction cleaners with power-driven air-pumps or air-compressors, e.g. driven by motor vehicle engine vacuum
    • A47L5/22—Structural features of suction cleaners with power-driven air-pumps or air-compressors, e.g. driven by motor vehicle engine vacuum with rotary fans
    • A47L5/28—Suction cleaners with handles and nozzles fixed on the casings, e.g. wheeled suction cleaners with steering handle
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L5/00—Structural features of suction cleaners
    • A47L5/12—Structural features of suction cleaners with power-driven air-pumps or air-compressors, e.g. driven by motor vehicle engine vacuum
    • A47L5/22—Structural features of suction cleaners with power-driven air-pumps or air-compressors, e.g. driven by motor vehicle engine vacuum with rotary fans
    • A47L5/28—Suction cleaners with handles and nozzles fixed on the casings, e.g. wheeled suction cleaners with steering handle
    • A47L5/30—Suction cleaners with handles and nozzles fixed on the casings, e.g. wheeled suction cleaners with steering handle with driven dust-loosening tools, e.g. rotating brushes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L7/00—Suction cleaners adapted for additional purposes; Tables with suction openings for cleaning purposes; Containers for cleaning articles by suction; Suction cleaners adapted to cleaning of brushes; Suction cleaners adapted to taking-up liquids
    • A47L7/0004—Suction cleaners adapted to take up liquids, e.g. wet or dry vacuum cleaners
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L7/00—Suction cleaners adapted for additional purposes; Tables with suction openings for cleaning purposes; Containers for cleaning articles by suction; Suction cleaners adapted to cleaning of brushes; Suction cleaners adapted to taking-up liquids
    • A47L7/02—Suction cleaners adapted for additional purposes; Tables with suction openings for cleaning purposes; Containers for cleaning articles by suction; Suction cleaners adapted to cleaning of brushes; Suction cleaners adapted to taking-up liquids with driven tools for special purposes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/0072—Mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/28—Installation of the electric equipment, e.g. adaptation or attachment to the suction cleaner; Controlling suction cleaners by electric means
    • A47L9/2805—Parameters or conditions being sensed

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  • This invention relates to cleaning appliances of the upright type.
  • cleaning appliances may be vacuum cleaners, or may be floor cleaners of the wet or so called “extractor” type in which a cleaning liquid is applied to a floor surface such as a carpet from a reservoir on the appliance, and then extracted by suction from the floor.
  • What such cleaning appliances have in common is a cleaning head moveable over a floor surface, and a body pivotally connected to the head and extending therefrom to a handle, enabling a user to move the head as required over the floor surface.
  • the body is usually able to be left in an upright position relative to the head when the cleaner is not in use, but when in use the body is tilted from the upright position at an angle to suit the user.
  • the appliance has a source of suction (an electric motor and impeller), and the head has a suction opening which faces the floor surface in use so that air sucked in from the surface, with entrained dust and/or liquid, can be directed to the source of suction by way of a separator/collector in which the dust and/or liquid entrained in the suction airflow is separated from the flow of air and retained for disposal.
  • a source of suction an electric motor and impeller
  • the head has a suction opening which faces the floor surface in use so that air sucked in from the surface, with entrained dust and/or liquid, can be directed to the source of suction by way of a separator/collector in which the dust and/or liquid entrained in the suction airflow is separated from the flow of air and retained for disposal.
  • the head of the cleaner may have, either in its suction opening in the case of a vacuum cleaner or possibly adjacent thereto in the case of an extractor floor cleaner, an agitating device which usually is a rotary brush or beater bar.
  • An upright cleaning appliance is usually left, when not actually being worked over a floor surface, with its body in an upright orientation, in which it is retained relative to the head by a catch or detent. During a temporary break in cleaning proceedings, it might be left with its source of suction operating and possibly also its agitating device. It is possible for an upright cleaning appliance, having been left with its body in the upright position, to fall over if someone or something accidentally (or intentionally) pushes or knocks it with sufficient force. Another common occurrence is that someone trips over the electrical power supply cable of the appliance.
  • a cleaning appliance of the upright type provided with a means for detecting the attitude of the head, and with a switch means operable to prevent operation of at least an agitating means, if present, of the appliance, if the head assumes an attitude different from a normal operational attitude thereof by more than a predetermined amount.
  • the appliance's source of suction is (also) prevented from operating.
  • the normal operational attitude of the head of the appliance is of course that of standing on a more or less horizontal floor surface.
  • the switch means may operate if the head assumes an attitude in which it is tilted by more than about 30°, by way of example, in any direction from its normal operational attitude.
  • the sensitivity thereof to tilting of the head forwardly or rearwardly from its normal operational attitude may be less than the sensitivity to its tilting laterally from its normal operational attitude.
  • the sensitivity to forwards or backwards tilting may be the same as that to lateral tilting.
  • the attitude-detection means and the switch means may be combined with one another in a so-called tilt-sensitive switch. One or more such switches may be utilised, depending on the type of switch and how many directions of tilting each switch is sensitive to.
  • the attitude detection means is provided in the head, since it is the latter which presents the suction opening and agitator device if the cleaning appliance falls over. It would, as an alternative, be possible to provide an attitude-detection means in the body of the appliance. However, an attitude detection means thus provided could only be responsive to lateral or forwards tilting of the body, since the body is tilted rearwardly from its upright condition in normal use of the appliance. Possibly there could be provided a means which responds to the body of the appliance being set in its upright/out of use orientation relative to the head of the appliance, and only when this condition has been detected would the attitude detection means and switch means be operable to prevent operation of at least the agitator device of the appliance.
  • the drawing shows a cleaning appliance which is an upright-type vacuum cleaner, comprising a body indicated generally at 10 and a cleaning head indicated generally at 11.
  • the body has a portion 12 in which is disposed is a source of suction for the cleaner, i.e. an electric motor and impeller, and above this the body carries a dust separator/collector assembly indicated generally at 13.
  • a body portion 14 extends above the separator/collector assembly 13 and ends at a handle 15.
  • the separator/collector assembly 13 incorporates one or more filters and/or cyclonic separator devices, so that dust and dirt entrained in the flow of air sucked up by the cleaner is separated from the airflow and retained for disposal, by removal of the entire separator/collector assembly or a separate dust-receptacle part thereof. All these features are well known in vacuum cleaners, and many arrangements thereof can be adopted: what is illustrated is by way of example only.
  • the cleaning head 11 comprises a front portion 16 adjacent whose front edge is a downwardly facing suction opening whose position is indicated at 17 facing a floor surface which is to be cleaned.
  • a brush/beater bar not illustrated, and power-driveable by an electric motor or possible by a turbine driven by airflow created by the source of suction of the cleaner.
  • Two spaced generally parallel portions, one of which is visible at 18, extend rearwardly from the front portion 16 of the cleaning head and lie on opposite sides of the portion 12 of the body of the cleaner. They are connected to the body of the cleaner so that the latter is able to pivot relative to the cleaning head about a transverse substantially horizontal axis.
  • the portions as 18 carry spaced wheels as 20, enabling the cleaning head to move forwardly and rearwardly over a floor surface, the cleaning head possibly being provided with small wheels or rollers, not shown, in the vicinity of its suction opening 17 to facilitate such movement.
  • a suction hose part 22 by which suction airflow is lead from the suction opening of the cleaning head to the separator/collector assembly of the cleaner and thence to the source of suction, after which it is discharged to the surrounding atmosphere.
  • the airflow path may include a hose 24 which is illustrated on the cleaner.
  • the body 10 is shown in the illustration in an upright position relative to the cleaning head 11 and it is pivotable relative to the cleaning head, about the transverse axis referred to above, between such position and a rearwardly inclined position.
  • a detent, or a catch releasable by a release member which may be operable by a user's foot, is provided for retaining the body in the upright position relative to the cleaning head.
  • the body In normal use as an upright type vacuum cleaner, the body is inclined rearwardly from its upright position until the handle 15 is at a convenient height enabling the user to manoeuvre the cleaning head of the cleaner over a floor surface which is being cleaned.
  • the cleaner When not being used in this manner, the cleaner is usually left with its body in the upright position, and the hose 24 may be detachable from the cleaner and connectable to a wand or hand-held cleaning tool for other cleaning jobs such as vacuum cleaning upholstery or the like: when used in this manner, the suction airflow is diverted from the cleaning head to the free end of the hose 24.
  • the cleaner From its illustrated upright position, it is possible for the cleaner to fall over. This is possible forwardly or rearwardly, as indicated by arrows A-B, or laterally as indicated by arrows C-D. It could fall over in any other direction, but this is relatively unlikely due to the generally rectangular footprint of the cleaning head 17. This might happen if the cleaner is accidentally knocked or pushed against, if someone trips over the electrical power supply cable (not illustrated) of the cleaner, or, if the hose 24 of the cleaner is being used for a cleaning job, the hose is pulled excessively. This exposes the suction opening 17 of the cleaning head and the brush/beater bar therein.
  • the cleaner is provided with a means for detecting the attitude of the cleaning head 11, and a means for switching off at least the brush/beater bar and preferably also the source of suction of the cleaner if the attitude of the head differs from its normal operational attitude, i.e. standing upon or moving over a more or less horizontal floor surface, as illustrated, by more than a predetermined amount. This may be achieved by providing one or more tilt switches in the head 11.
  • Such tilt switches utilising gravity-displaceable contact elements, or possibly a conductive liquid material such as mercury, are well known.
  • a single such switch may be utilised, operable to detect the attitude of the cleaning head in all directions, A, B, C, D and directions therebetween, or two such switches may be provided one of which is responsive to forwards and rearwards attitude changes of the head and the other of which is responsive to lateral attitude changes.
  • the latter solution may be adopted where it is required that the sensitivity to attitude changes should be different as between the forwards/rearwards attitude of the head and the lateral attitude thereof.
  • the attitude-detection means may be arranged to operate to cause switching off of the cleaner or at least the brush/beater bar thereof if the head assumes an attitude greater than about 30° from its normal operational attitude.
  • the attitude detection means and/or switch means may be operable at all times i.e. when the cleaner is being used by being worked forwardly and rearwardly over a floor surface as well as when it is in the condition in which the body of the cleaner is set in its upright position relative to the head.
  • the attitude detection means and/or switch means may be operable only when the body is set in its upright position. In this case, the attitude-detection means could be provided in the body of the cleaner rather than the head.

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