JPH0584167A - Vertical vacuum cleaner - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To lower the whole height, enable the cleaning of the inner part under a bed and prevent a hose from deformation when the body of the title cleaner is wrongly brought down rearward by providing a connecting hose on the one side surface of the body and disposing removably an extension hose on the opposite side surface and the upper surface. CONSTITUTION:A L-shaped pipe 37 of a connecting hose 34 is protruding widthwise of the body 11 of the title cleaner from a connecting pipe 44 provided in an extension hose 43, and the extension hose 43 is disposed inside a straight line C interconnecting the maximum width of the L-shaped pipe 37 side of a floor nozzle 33 and the outer diameter of the L-shaped pipe 37. On the opposite side is disposed the extension hose 43 inside a straight line D interconnecting the outer diameter of an extension pipe 46 holding the extension 43 and the maximum width of the floor nozzle 33 on the side of extension pipe 46. Even if the body 11 is wrongly brought down sideways, the hose is prevented from deforming. A connecting pipe 35 of the connecting hose 34 is connected to a connecting pipe 44 of the extension hose 43 so that the floor nozzle 33 can clean gaps between furniture, the upper surface of a rack, ceiling or the like difficult to clean.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an upright type electric vacuum cleaner used in general households.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a vertical vacuum cleaner of this type is shown in FIG.
It had a structure as shown in 0. That is, a connection hose 3 for communicating suction between the cleaner main body 1 and the floor nozzle 2 is provided at the rear part of the cleaner body 1, and a connection hose is provided at this rear part.
Extension hose that connects to the space 3 and cleans gaps and shelves
The boots 4 was detachably installed.

[0003]

However, in the case of such a structure, when the main body is accidentally tilted backward as shown in FIG. 11, the hose receives the load and impact of the cleaner main body 1. It could be deformed by the load.

Further, since the connecting hose 3 and the extension hose 4 are arranged at the rear part, when the cleaner body 1 is tilted down when cleaning the bed or the like, the entire height is lowered. There was a problem that h became high and it was impossible to clean the bottom of the bed.

Therefore, the present invention solves the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a more convenient vertical vacuum cleaner.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises a cleaner body having a fan motor built-in, and a floor nozzle on the suction side of the cleaner body.
A connection hose that connects the suction of the fan motor to the floor nozzle is provided from the side surface on either side of the cleaner body, and the connection pipe can be freely attached to and detached from the connection part on the floor nozzle side of the connection hose. An extension hose is provided for connecting to the connection pipe to clean a gap or a shelf, and the extension hose has an extension pipe on one side and a connection pipe on the other end. The extension hose is detachably arranged on the remaining side surface and the upper surface of the cleaner body provided on the connection hose except the side surface.

From the straight line connecting the outermost shape of the L-shaped pipe provided at the outlet of the cleaner body of the connection hose and the maximum width of the floor nozzle on the side of the L-shaped pipe. , The connecting hose and the extension hose are arranged inside, and the outermost shape of the extension pipe of the extension hose provided on the side surface on the opposite side,
The hose portion of the connecting hose extension hose is provided inside the straight line connecting the maximum width of the floor nozzle on this side.

Further, a bar-shaped handle is vertically arranged in the rear central portion of the cleaner body, and a cord reel is provided in the cleaner body, and a connecting wheel provided on a side surface portion of the cleaner body. -In the diagonal rear part of the hose part of the hose or extension hose and the handle storage part that stores the handle described above,
The drill is constructed obliquely with respect to the main body of the vacuum cleaner, and a cord drawer cord outlet is provided.

[0009]

According to the present invention, since the hoses are provided on the side surfaces even if the cleaner body is accidentally tilted backward due to the above structure,
There is no deformation of the cloth.

In addition, even if the side surface is broken by hand, the L-shaped pipe or the extension pipe does not hit the floor surface to directly apply an impact load to the hose, and the hose is not deformed.

Further, since the hoses are provided on the side surface side of the cleaner body, the height of the whole body can be lowered when the cleaner body is tilted down when cleaning under the bed or the like. You will be able to clean the inside of the bed.

Further, since the cord reel is arranged with respect to the main body of the cleaner and the outlet of the cord is provided obliquely rearward of the main body of the cleaner, the hoses provided on the side surface are When pulling out the code, the usability can be further improved without getting in the way.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.
Will be described with reference to.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a cleaner body having a fan motor 12 built therein. The cleaner body 11 includes a dust collecting chamber 14 in which a paper bag 13 for collecting dust is housed, and a cordiller 1.
5 are provided. As shown in FIG. 4, the cord reel 15 is disposed obliquely with respect to the cleaner body 11, and the cord outlet 16 can also be slid rearward. Also, at the rear of the cleaner body 11,
A handle 17 is provided so as to be extendable and retractable, and a handle storage portion 18 of the cleaner body 11 that stores the handle 17 is provided.
Is formed in front of the fan motor chamber 19 accommodating the fan motor 12, and is accommodated without protruding rearward from the fan motor chamber 19. A handle body 20 is arranged at the upper end of the handle 17. The handle body 20 is provided with a hand switch 21, and an electric control circuit 23, a fan motor 12 and the like are provided by an extendable and retractable curled cord 22 disposed in the handle 17. The expansion and contraction configuration of the handle 17 electrically connected to the handle 17 is as follows.

The handle 17 has a pipe shape,
A plurality of holes 24 are provided. In this hole 24, buckle 2
The pin 26 fixed to 5 is locked. Next, buckle 25
When the knob portion 27 is pushed downward, the buckle 25 is rotated around the rotation shaft 28 to disengage the pin 26 held in the hole 24 of the handle 17, and the handle 17 is pulled upward. The spring 24 is inserted into the hole 24 provided at the bottom of the handle 17.
The pin 26, which is constantly in pressure contact with the handle 17, enters by 9 and the handle 17 is locked.

On the suction side of the cleaner body 11, there is provided a floor nozzle 33 containing a small motor 32 which is interlocked with a rotating brush 30 and a belt 31. 34 is the cleaner body 11
And a connection hose for communicating suction between the floor nozzle 33 and
One of the connection hoses 34 is detachably attached to the floor nozzle 33 side by a connection pipe 35, and the other is detachably attached to an intake port 36 provided in the cleaner body 11 by an L-shaped pipe 37. Is becoming

The dust sucked from the suction port 38 of the floor nozzle 33 is stored in the paper bag 13 through the connecting hose 34, and the exhaust air from the fan motor 12 is provided on both sides of the dust collecting chamber 14. Through the exhaust passages 39, 40
Exhausted from 1, 42. The exhaust passages 38 and 39 are
It is blocked by the intake port 35.

The exhaust port areas of the exhaust ports 41 and 42 are set such that 41 is smaller and 42 is larger. This is because the passage lengths of the exhaust passages 39 and 40 are different, so that the exhaust port area on the side of the exhaust passage 39 with a short passage and a small pressure loss is set to be small to make it difficult for the exhaust gas to flow. The exhaust port area on the side of the exhaust passage 40, which is long and has many bent portions and has a large pressure loss, is set large to facilitate the flow.

As a result, the sound generated from the fan motor 12 riding on the exhaust gas flow to the outside is increased in the long 40 side of the exhaust passage, and the sound is attenuated at the bent portion of the exhaust passage to clean the vacuum cleaner. It reduces the overall noise.

Reference numeral 43 is an extension hose, one of which is provided with a connecting pipe 44, and the other of which is provided with a skimmer nozzle 4
An extension pipe 46 that accommodates 5 in a stretchable manner is provided.
The extension pipe hose 43 includes a connection pipe 44 and an extension pipe 46.
Formed in. With the claws 47, 48 on the cleaner body 11,
It is removable. Also, this extension hose 43
As shown in FIG. 7, the connection pipe 35 of the connection hose 34 and the connection pipe 44 of the extension hose 43 are connected to each other so that the floor nozzle 33 makes it difficult to clean the space between furniture and on the shelf. , Such as the ceiling can be cleaned.

Reference numeral 49 denotes a pedal provided on the floor nozzle 33, and the claw 50 formed on the cleaner body 11 and the claw 51 formed on the pedal 49 are in a locked state. Pedal 4
When you press 9 with your foot to release the lock, the cleaner body 11
The floor nozzle 33 can be tilted rearward about the pivot shaft 52 provided in the floor nozzle 33, and a normal cleaning state is obtained. Also, the cleaner body 1
8, the handle body 20 can be laid down until the handle body 20 hits the floor surface, and even in a small gap such as a bed, the height H is low so that cleaning can be performed to the back.

Denoted at 53 and 54 are handles for carrying the cleaner body 11, which are A and B from the center of the cleaner body 11, respectively.
It is arranged by shifting the size of.

Reference numeral 55 denotes a cushioning material formed of foamed urethane or the like, which is provided at a joint portion between the cleaner body 11 and the floor nozzle 33, and is fixed to a lower surface portion 56 of the cleaner body 11 and is a floor nozzle. It is in contact with the upper surface 57 of 33.

The connection hose 34 and extension hose described above.
S43 considers as follows. Connection hose 34
Of the L-shaped pipe 37 of the floor nozzle 33 is made to project in the width direction of the cleaner body 11 more than the connection pipe 44 provided in the extension hose 43. The extension hose 43 is arranged on the inner side of the maximum width and the straight line C connecting to the outer shape of the L-shaped pipe 37.

On the opposite side, the outer diameter of the extension pipe 46 holding the extension hose 43 and the extension pipe 4
An extension hose 43 is arranged inside a straight line D connecting the maximum width of the floor nozzle 33 on the 6 side.

With this construction, when the cleaner body 11 is accidentally tilted in the side direction, no impact load is directly applied to the hose as shown in FIG. There is no deformation of the cloth.

[0027]

As described above, with the structure of the present invention, even if the cleaner body is accidentally tilted backward, the hoses are not deformed because the hoses are provided on the side surfaces.

Further, even if the side surface is broken by hand, the L-shaped pipe or the extension pipe does not hit the floor surface and directly apply an impact load to the hose, so that the hose is not deformed.

Furthermore, since the hoses are provided on the side surface of the cleaner body, the overall height can be lowered when the cleaner body is tilted down when cleaning the bed or the like. You will be able to clean the inside of the bed.

Further, since the cord reel is arranged with respect to the cleaner body and the outlet of the cord is provided obliquely rearward of the cleaner body, the hoses provided on the side surface are When pulling out the code, the usability can be further improved without getting in the way.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a rear view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a central sectional view seen from the front.

FIG. 3 is a central sectional view seen from the same side.

FIG. 4 is a partial cross-sectional view of the cord reel portion.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged sectional view of a tail key portion of the handle.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view seen from the diagonal rear side.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the attachment cleaning.

FIG. 8 is a side view when the main body of the vacuum cleaner is tilted rearward.

FIG. 9 is a rear view when the main body of the vacuum cleaner is tilted to the side.

FIG. 10 is a view of a vertical cleaner in a conventional example seen from behind.

FIG. 11 is a side view of the same vacuum cleaner body when it is tilted backward.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 vacuum cleaner body 12 fan motor 15 cord reel 16 code outlet 17 handle 18 handle storage 33 floor nozzle 34 connection hose 35 connection pipe 37 L-shaped pipe 43 extension hose 44 connection Pipe 46 Extension pipe

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A cleaner main body having a fan motor built-in, and a floor nozzle provided on the suction side of the cleaner main body. The suction of the fan motor is floored from one side surface of the cleaner main body. A connection hose that communicates with the nozzle is provided, and a connection pipe is detachably provided at the connection part on the floor nozzle side of the connection hose, and the connection pipe is connected to the extension to clean a gap or a shelf. A hose is provided, the extension hose has an extension pipe on one side and a connection pipe on the other end, and the extension hose is provided on the connection hose. Vertical vacuum cleaner characterized in that it is detachably arranged on the remaining side surface and upper surface other than the above parts. 2. A straight line connecting the outermost shape of the L-shaped pipe portion provided at the outlet of the cleaner body of the connecting hose and the maximum width of the floor nozzle on the side surface having the L-shaped pipe. , Connection ho
A straight line that connects the outermost shape of the extension pipe of the extension hose provided on the opposite side and the maximum width of the floor nozzle on this side. 2. The vertical vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the hose portion of the connecting hose extension hose is provided inside. 3. A connection provided on a rear central portion of a cleaner body in a vertical direction with a bar-shaped handle, and a cord reel provided on a main body of the cleaner, and a side portion of the cleaner body. At the diagonal rear part of the hose part of the hose or the extension hose and the handle storage part accommodating the handle described above, a cord reel is provided.
3. The cord is slanted with respect to the main body of the vacuum cleaner, and a lead-out port for the cord of the cord reel is provided.
Vertical vacuum cleaner.