GB2599841A - Surface cleaning apparatus - Google Patents

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GB2599841A
GB2599841A GB2200086.3A GB202200086A GB2599841A GB 2599841 A GB2599841 A GB 2599841A GB 202200086 A GB202200086 A GB 202200086A GB 2599841 A GB2599841 A GB 2599841A
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surface cleaning
wand
cleaning apparatus
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Ernest Conrad Wayne
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Omachron Intellectual Property Inc
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Priority claimed from US16/440,590 external-priority patent/US11445871B2/en
Priority claimed from US16/440,725 external-priority patent/US11452409B2/en
Priority claimed from US16/440,701 external-priority patent/US11445872B2/en
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Priority to GB2301903.7A priority Critical patent/GB2616963B/en
Priority to GB2209061.7A priority patent/GB2605103B/en
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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
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/102—Dust separators
    • 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
    • A47L5/24—Hand-supported suction 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
    • 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
    • A47L9/02—Nozzles
    • 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
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/106—Dust removal
    • 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
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/16—Arrangement or disposition of cyclones or other devices with centrifugal action
    • A47L9/1608—Cyclonic chamber constructions
    • 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
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/16—Arrangement or disposition of cyclones or other devices with centrifugal action
    • A47L9/165—Construction of inlets
    • 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
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/16—Arrangement or disposition of cyclones or other devices with centrifugal action
    • A47L9/1658—Construction of outlets
    • A47L9/1666—Construction of outlets with filtering means
    • 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
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/16—Arrangement or disposition of cyclones or other devices with centrifugal action
    • A47L9/1683—Dust collecting chambers; Dust collecting receptacles
    • 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
    • A47L9/2868—Arrangements for power supply of vacuum cleaners or the accessories thereof
    • A47L9/2884—Details of arrangements of batteries or their installation
    • 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
    • A47L9/32—Handles
    • A47L9/322—Handles for hand-supported suction cleaners

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  • Cleaning In General (AREA)

Abstract

A stick surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone unit provided in the wand.

Claims (20)

Claims
1. A stick surface cleaning apparatus comprising: (a) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet with a suction motor provided in the air flow path; (b) a surface cleaning head having a dirty air inlet and a surface cleaning head air outlet; (c) a wand comprising a cyclone unit wherein, when the wand is mounted to the surface cleaning head, the wand is moveable between an upright storage position and a reclined in use position; and, (d) a driving handle drivingly connected to the surface cleaning head, wherein, when the wand is mounted to the surface cleaning head and in the upright storage position, the wand has a lower end and an axially spaced apart upper end and a wand axis extends between the lower end and the upper end.
2. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the wand has an internal volume that consists of the cyclone unit.
3. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the wand consists of the cyclone unit.
4. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the cyclone unit comprises a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber external to the cyclone chamber.
5. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the cyclone unit comprises a cyclone chamber having a cyclone axis, the cyclone chamber has an axially extending sidewall and the axially extending sidewall comprises an exterior wall of the wand.
6. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 5 wherein the cyclone unit further comprises a dirt collection region external to the cyclone chamber, the dirt collection chamber comprises an axially extending sidewall and the axially extending sidewall of the dirt collection region comprises an exterior wall of the wand.
7. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 4 wherein the cyclone chamber has a cyclone axis, the cyclone chamber has an axially extending cyclone sidewall, the dirt collection chamber comprises an axially extending dirt collection chamber sidewall and the axially extending cyclone sidewall and the axially extending dirt collection chamber sidewall comprise an exterior wall of the wand.
8. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the cyclone unit defines a rigid structure that drivingly connects the handle to the surface cleaning head.
9. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the wand is the sole cyclonic air treatment member of the surface cleaning apparatus.
10. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 4 wherein the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber are removable from the surface cleaning head as a unit.
11. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the wand is removably mounted to the surface cleaning head.
12. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the surface cleaning head has an up flow conduit downstream of the dirty air inlet, a downstream end of the up flow duct is the surface cleaning head air outlet and the up flow duct is moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head.
13. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 12 wherein, when the wand is mounted to the surface cleaning head and in the upright storage position, a lower end of the wand has an air inlet that is downstream from the surface cleaning head air outlet.
14. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 13 wherein, when the wand is mounted to the surface cleaning head the lower end of the wand is mounted to the up flow duct.
15. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein, when the wand is mounted to the surface cleaning head and in the upright storage position, the lower end of the wand comprises a wand air inlet and the upper end of the wand comprises a wand air outlet.
16. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the cyclone unit comprises a uniflow cyclone.
17. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 16 wherein, when the wand is mounted to the surface cleaning head and in the upright storage position, a lower end of the wand has an air inlet, and the air inlet comprises the uniflow cyclone air inlet.
18. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 17 wherein, when the wand is mounted to the surface cleaning head and in the upright storage position, an upper end of the wand has an air outlet.
19. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein, when the wand is mounted to the surface cleaning head and in the upright storage position, a lower end of the wand has an air inlet, an upper end of the wand has an air outlet and a hand carriable surface cleaning apparatus is removably mountable to the upper end of the wand.
20. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 19 wherein, when the hand carriable surface cleaning apparatus has a handle and when the hand carriable surface cleaning apparatus is mounted to the upper end of the wand, the handle of the hand carriable surface cleaning apparatus is the driving handle.
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US16/440,657 US11534041B2 (en) 2014-12-17 2019-06-13 Surface cleaning apparatus
US16/440,590 US11445871B2 (en) 2014-12-17 2019-06-13 Surface cleaning apparatus
US16/440,725 US11452409B2 (en) 2014-12-17 2019-06-13 Surface cleaning apparatus
US16/440,701 US11445872B2 (en) 2014-12-17 2019-06-13 Surface cleaning apparatus
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