US1884866A - Airway cleaner support - Google Patents

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Oct.25, 1932. REPLOGLE 1,884,866

AIRWAY CLEANER SUPPORT Filed June 7, 1928 1 2 Sheets-Sheet l h l9 fi IF INVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS.

Oct; 25, 1932.

D. B. REPLOGLE 1,884,866 AIRWAY CLEANER SUPPORT Filed June 7. 1928 2 Sheets-sheaf 2 A TTORNEYS.

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Patented Oct. 25, 1932 I UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE DANIEL BENBCN REPLOGLE, F BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND IESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE COMMERCE GUARDIAN TRUST & SAVINGS BANK,

TRUSTEE, or romeo, onro AIRWAY CLEANER SUPIOE'I Application filed June 7,

6 handle. In such cleaners it is usual in applying the floor tool to use floor roller supports which ,normally support the device at an angle of about or degrees with the floor, which is about the most convenient angle 1 for sweeping purposes; but when the cleaner is to be set away, it is found more economical of space, and more easily concealed from view, to stand it in the erect position. In the erect position however, it has been neces- 15 sary to lean the cleaner against a wall or some support, since the body and handle thereof are rigid and will not bend into POSI- tion so as to throw their weight over the motor as is the case with the swinging handle type of cleaner.

Moreover, in the airway type of cleaner, which uses a suction handle, a hose-pipe extension of the handle, for other than floor cleaning, extension tubes and tools for further extension of the hose-pipe, and also paper dust filters forinterior use in the device; it is desirable to provide a convenient place for keeping these accessor es near the cleaner, where they may be readily seen and used, instead of having them at remote places where they are forgotten.

The objects of the present invent1on,therefore, are to provide an easel or standard for resting the cleaner in an erect position, 'to

provide means for holding the suction hosepipe in working connection therewith, to provide for holding extension pipes and other accessories for the cleaner, to display the same, and other objects as may appear in the specifications and claims.

To these ends, the invention consists of the design, construction and arrangement of parts as specified herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the easel with a pair of extension tubes and a dust filter in place and with an airway cleaner with its hose connection in place, ready to be set away. v

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same,

stan 1928. Serial No. 883,688.

suggesting one of the extension tubes attached to the hose-pipe for service.

F gure 3 shows a side view of the two main portions of the easel separated and placed in pos tion for convenient wrapping or pack- 1n Tigure 4 is a perspective of the easel or ard hooked to a wall, carrying the hosepipe and an L connection for the same, but 4 with the cleaner removed. F lgure 5 is a view suggesting the manner of nooking the easel and cleaner with the hosepipe attached to the swinging door of a closet, so that the hose-pipe shall be ready for use.

Like characters of reference denote like and corresponding parts in the several views. Referring to the drawings, 1 denotes the body of a cleaner to be supported and 2 the suction pipe handle thereof which is to be operatively connected to the hose-pipe 3 through the medium of the swivelled member 4, supported by a wire frame easel or standard comprising an upper frame 5 and a base frame 6. The upper frame v5 has a resilient loop or eye 7 preferably formed integral therewith, into which a neck of the L member 4 is inserted and permitted to have a rotative or swivellin motion; a mouth 7 of the member 4 being isposed'to receive the end of the suction handle 3 and effect a seal therewith by the tension of the flexible wires of the frame 5. Since the wires are bent forward at 8, 8, when the rear roller support 21 of the cleaner sits on the rests 12, 12, the handle will not enter the mouth 7 without the wires being sprung upward and backward-stressing the resilient frame. When so stressed it snaps the L member 4 into engagement with the handle, in response to the handle being pressed in by the hand. This arrangement also serves to firmly hold the handle of the cleaner and keep the whole in an erect position on the easel. A pair of loops, 9, 9, suitable on which to hang accessorles, such as an electric cord, are formed from a wire which also having bent into it a hanger 100 19, is spot-welded to the frame 5, prefera 1y near its upper end.

Another wire clamp 10, having pipe retaining lugs 10', 10' bent into it, is connected to the frame 5 below the hanger loops 9, 9, etc... The latter is designed in addition to clamping .pipes like 16, to hold dust filtering bags as suggested at 13. A 'oke 14 rigidly secured at both sides of the ase frame 6 is arranged so that over turned lugs thereof are in vertical line over the eyes 15, 15, WhlCh are formed from a single wire having its ends spot-welded to both sides of the base 6. These lugs and eyes serve as sliding ways for the two wire legs of the upper frame 5 and permit it to be slid upwards or downwards to adjust the easel to a proper length before it is to be fastened into place at the length required. The feet 11, 11, of the base 6, are mainly formed from loops 11, 11, which are spread wide enough to serve as holders for the lower end of extension pipes as 16, the upper ends of which are retained by lugs 10 of the wire clamp 10. Bracing wires may be crossed between the feet 11, 11 so as to form a V-shaped loop 20 to cooperate with the loop 19 when the easel with its contents are to be hooked to a wall or door by hooks 19 and 20.

In using the device, when disconnected from the wall or door, the feet 11, 11, in conjunction with the end rollers of the floor tool 18, make the four points of support on which the easel and its lading are held erect while cleaning at remote places with extension tools such as the tool 17 and the like.

Having now described the device and its use, it is evident that the construction may be greatly varied and made from materials.

other than wire, Without departing from the spirit of the invention. What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A standard provided with supports for the body and detachable suction hose-pipe of a suction cleaner, the said standard comprising an upper frame and a base frame, the upper frame carrying the hose-pipe support and the base frame carrying the body support for the cleaner, and the frames being adj ustably connected to vary the distance be tween said supports.

2. A standard for supporting a suction cleaner having a suction inlet, said standard including an upper frame and a base frame, means on said base frame for supporting the body of the cleaner, the said upper frame having integrally constructed therewith a looped member, a hollow L member detachably swivelled in said looped member, said L member being adapted to connect with a suction inlet of the cleaner, when said cleaner is supported by said standard.

3. A standard for a suction cleaner, which cleaner includes a body and a suction handle; said standard including a lower frame and an upper frame slidably connected to vary the length of the standard, means on said lower frame for supporting the body of said cleaner with its suction handle extending u wardly, a resilient looped member carried y said upper frame and bent toward the suction handle, a hollow L member carried by said resilient loop and held against said handle by the resiliency of said loop.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

DANIEL BENSON REPLOGLE.

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