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US2656009A
US2656009A US208304A US20830451A US2656009A US 2656009 A US2656009 A US 2656009A US 208304 A US208304 A US 208304A US 20830451 A US20830451 A US 20830451A US 2656009 A US2656009 A US 2656009A
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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
    • 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
    • A47L5/36—Suction cleaners with hose between nozzle and casing; Suction cleaners for fixing on staircases; Suction cleaners for carrying on the back
    • A47L5/365—Suction cleaners with hose between nozzle and casing; Suction cleaners for fixing on staircases; Suction cleaners for carrying on the back of the vertical type, e.g. tank or bucket type

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  • Shims- 1 fi his invention relates to new and useful -:lm provements in cleaners and has particular -rel-a tion to suction type cleaners.
  • Another object is to provide a suction type cleaner of simple and inexpensive construction and yet adapted for heavy use, as in office bui'ldings, apartment houses, hotels and the like, and which is also suitable for use in largeghomes.
  • a further object is to provide a suction cleaner comprising, essentially, a, receptacle and a cover device secured to the receptacle 'by ready releasable means and when in place serving to clamp in proper position -a dust bag supporting trame and divider and when removed -from position on the receptacle, ex-posing said parts tor removal and cleaning.
  • Yet another object is to provide a suction cleaner of the character indicated and wherein suction creating means is mounted in a removable cover device and the latter also mounts a miller.
  • An additional eobject is to provide a suction Receptacle L is a rigid structure, preferably of metal, and is open through its upper end at such and terminates in a continuous, as annular, H.
  • an inlet opening or port generally designated '13 equipped with .
  • a fitting 14 to which one end of a'flexihle hose or the like (not shown) is read-.- ily attachable. On the other end of such or like there will be attached any or the usual suction cleaning tools (not shown).
  • fitting 14 includes an outer element 4%) having its inner .end spun over edges of the opening is and within such element I5 is a swivel bushing J 6 held in place :by a retaining 4r].
  • a deflector shield ge'nenallydesignated .19.
  • the same comprises a transversely arcuate or semi-cylindrical body portion 2119f rigid material, such as metal, and within each per.- tion is a deflector shield lining 24, preferably .of rubber.
  • deflector-shield wiil be horeinafter turther considered, it-isnoted that the same extends across the inlet .port or open.- ing 13, is closed at one end as lay an angular bent portion 22 in cooperation with a, wall receptacle ill), :but is .open through its other end +23.
  • Fig. .2 a side elevational view thereof
  • .3 is an enlarged yertical .central sectional i w Rudough the upper portion of the cleaner
  • a-receptacle generally designated 10, shown comprising a continuous, as an annular, member 2 5 of rubber ror other compressible material and also a continuous, as annular, .metal member -26 comprising, in -.-transverse section, a horizontal portion embedded ;in the rubber member 25 and then .a downwardly and outwardly curved or ancuate portion 21.
  • the cleaner includes a cover device generally designated 34.
  • Such device comprises a hollow metal shell having an interlining 36
  • Shell 35 is open through its lower end but includes a top wall 31 having a central opening 36 thereof felt or other sound absorbing material.
  • a horizontal flange 43 from the outer periphery of which depends a skirt-like portion 44.
  • the parts are of such diameter that when the cover device is in place, as in Fig. 3, the flange 43 is disposed on the upper side of the compressible member 25 of frame 24 and the depending skirt 44 is about the outer periphery of the bead 12 of the receptacle.
  • the skirt 44 serves to insure a centering of the frame 24 on the bead I2.
  • suction creating units On the upper side of the motor supporting plate 40 is a sponge rubber pad 45 against the upper side of which suction creating units, generally designated 46, are secured as by clamping bolts 41 having hook-like portions 48 engaged over the upper edges of the walls of the units 46 and having their lower ends passing through the pad 45 and the motor supporting plate 40 and anchored as by nuts 49.
  • the desired number of theunits 46 may be employed, i. e., one or more such units, depending upon the size cleaner being made. I These units are those described in my co-pending application Ser. No. 172,758, filed July 8, 1950.
  • Mounted on a unit 46 is a thermally operated switch 50, the purpose of which is that set forth in. the co-pending application of Moss A. Kent, Ser. No. 199,429, filed December 6, 1950.
  • and 52 are registering openings 5
  • a mufiler 53 Onthe upper side of the cover device 34 and mounted thereon to form part thereof is a mufiler generally designated 53.
  • This mufiier includes an outer metal shell 54 and upper and lower felt structures 55 and 56 separated as by a disc 51 and having radially extending passages 58 therethrough all communicating at the center of the device.
  • This mufiler 53 is more particularly disclosed in my above mentioned co-pending application.
  • a rod or post 59 Extending upwardly through the mufiler device is a rod or post 59 at its upper end provided with a head 66 normally located under a latch device 6] pivoted for swinging movement as at 62.
  • a valve structure To the lower end of the post 59 there is attached a valve structure generally designated 63.
  • a bracket piece 64 serves as a guide limiting movements of the post 59 to vertical movements.
  • a handle 65 shown as formed of a piece of hollow tubing.
  • a pair of bolts 66 have their heads located at the inner side of the shell 36 of the cover device and then these bolts pass upwardly through tubular spacer elements 67 and at their upper ends are threaded into nuts 66 fixed within the end portions of the handle 65.
  • the mufiler device 53 is secured to the shell 35 so as to with the latter form part of the cover device 34 and at the same time the handle 65 is secured in place.
  • the spacers 61 prevent excessive tightening of the bolts in the nuts and thereby prevent collapse or compression of the sound absorbing materials 55 and 56 in the mufiier.
  • an opening 69 In a side wall of the shell 35 of the cover device is an opening 69 about which is secured a radially extending nipple 19 normally closed as by a plug H fixed to a handle device 12.
  • the plug II When the present machine is being used as a suction unit, the plug II will be in place completely closing the outlet 69. However, at certain'times, the machine may be used as a blower when a hose (not shown) may be attached to the nipple 10, the plug II and its handle 12 having been removed.
  • is swung on its pivot 62 so as to clear the head 60. Then, as the units 46 are operated, the flow of air toward and through the openings 38 and 39 results in the valve 63 being drawn upwardly to seat about the edges of the opening 39. This prevents movement of air from the interior of the cover device to the muffler and causes the air to blow out through the outlet 69, the plug H having been removed.
  • a hose or the like on the nipple conducts the air as desired for the operation of a cleaning tool or otherwise.
  • the units 46 are stopped, there is no longer any pressure of air within the shell 35 and the valve 63 drops to the position shown in Fig. 3 when the latch 6
  • the plug II will be returned to a position closing off passage through the nipple 10.
  • is disposed on the upper end of the receptacle I0, the dust bag depending into such receptacle.
  • the ring 28 carrying the foraminous member 29 is dropped into place and thereafter the operator reaches through the lower end of the member 29, grasps the lower portion or bottom wall 32 of the dust bag and draws the lower portion of the same upwardly into said member.
  • the operator positions the cover device 34 and, as above noted, the flange 43 of such cover device is located against the upper side of the compressible member 25 of frame 24 and the skirt 44 for the cover device centers said member with respect to the receptacle.
  • the dust and dirt is carried into the machine along with the flow of air created through the machine by the units 46 and as the dust and dirt laden air enters the inlet or intake [3, it engages the deflector shell l9 and is deflected laterally losing some of its momentum. All the air and dirt or dust is deflected in the same direction through the open end 23 of the deflector shell. The dirt and dust laden air then tends to travel about the vertical wall of the receptacle losing its momentum and dropping the dust and dirt to the bottom of the receptacle ID.
  • the air passes through the dust bag and is screened by the latter and then through the registering openings 5
  • Dirt laden water may be somewhat similarly taken up by the machine and z the water collects in the bottom of the receptacle
  • a temporary job of increasing the efiiciency of the machine may be accomplished by releasing the drawpull catch device 14 and lifting off the cover device 34 and then reaching in through the open upper end of the receptacle and grasping a portion of the dustbag within the member 29 and shaking the dust bag.
  • the cover device When the dust bag is to be more thoroughly cleaned, the cover device is removed as above described and the operator then lifts out the ring 28 with the truncated cone-shaped foraminous member 29 and then lifts out the frame 24 with the dust bag 3
  • the parts being out of the receptacle, the ring 28 and member 29 are separated from the dust bag. Thereafter, the dust bag may be thoroughly beaten or swept and cleaned before the cleaner is reassembled. At such times, that is, when the cover device is removed and the dust bag and member 29 are dismounted, the receptacle l0 may be emptied.
  • the machine is adapted for use with a variety of tools such as are well-known in the art, and where these tools are suction operated, they are placed in communication with the interior of the receptacle l0 through the attaching device l4. With the tools operated by air under slight pres- :sure or by blowing :action, the tools are attached to the nipple Iii and catch .51 is moved on its pivot to permit closingof the valve $3.
  • a receptacle hav'ingan annular side wall open at its upper end, an annular frame seated on the upper end of said receptacle and forming an annularly continuous air-tight seal therewith, an annular rigid screen member of truncated cone-shape with its larger end being the upper end, said screen member being open at its upper and lower ends and supported at its upper end by said frame and depending into said receptacle, a flexible dust bag having an open end and a closed end and of generally hourglass shape when extended, said open end being engaged and secured about said annular frame outwardly of said screen member. said bag extending in downwardly convergent relation about the outer side of said screen member.
  • a cover device normally closing the upper end of said receptacle in air-tight fashion and removable therefrom to expose the upper open end of said screen member supported within said receptacle, a suction unit in said cover device for creating a suction upwardly through said dust bag to draw the closed end of said dust bag upwardly within said screen.
  • a housing having a lower receptacle part and an upper cover part including a top wall and a side wall, said lower. receptacle part having an air inlet and said upper cover part having an exhaust outlet in said top wall and a blower outlet in said side wall.
  • a suction unit within said housing having a lower inlet end and an upper outlet end for creating a suction through said air inlet of said receptacle part, a removable means for normally closing said blower outlet, valve means for opening and clos-- ing said exhaust outlet comprising a vertically movable post within said exhaust outlet, guide means for said post, a valve head upon the lower end of said post adapted in a relatively raised Number said suction unit and movable thereby to close said exhaust outlet by the pressure of said air,
  • movable means 10 normally in the path of upward -movement of said post for maintaining said valve head in open position, and said movable means 10 shiftable to release said post for movement of said .valve head to closed relation with said exhaust outlet.

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US2721625A (en) * 1953-08-26 1955-10-25 Henney Motor Company Inc Canister type suction cleaner
US2741329A (en) * 1952-01-30 1956-04-10 Gen Electric Circumferential air discharge construction for suction cleaners
US2779432A (en) * 1953-05-07 1957-01-29 Lewyt Corp Vacuum cleaner assembly
US2790508A (en) * 1957-04-30 Apparatus for removing dust by centrifugal force
US2954843A (en) * 1956-07-18 1960-10-04 Babcock & Wilcox Co Pocket shot separator
US2962118A (en) * 1958-12-23 1960-11-29 Black & Decker Mfg Co Electric vacuum cleaner
US3045412A (en) * 1959-09-03 1962-07-24 Premier Company Float seal for vacuum cleaners
US3046718A (en) * 1959-04-08 1962-07-31 Kent Company Inc Suction cleaner
US3390514A (en) * 1966-12-07 1968-07-02 Bullard Co Distribution and control manifold for air purifying apparatus
USD286336S (en) 1984-02-15 1986-10-21 Shop-Vac Corporation Tank for electric vacuum cleaner
US5535500A (en) * 1994-01-06 1996-07-16 Royal Appliance Mfg. Co. Method for manufacturing a bucket for a wet/dry vacuum cleaner

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GB256407A (en) * 1925-08-25 1926-08-12 Arthur William Macleod Apparatus for eliminating air from the discharge of pressure pumps
GB379506A (en) * 1931-08-28 1932-09-01 Fisker & Nielsen As Improvements in and relating to vacuum cleaners
US2044827A (en) * 1935-03-13 1936-06-23 Joseph H Adams Vacuum cleaning apparatus
US2047594A (en) * 1935-08-23 1936-07-14 Spencer Turbine Co Dust and dirt separator
US2380382A (en) * 1941-11-29 1945-07-31 Black & Decker Mfg Co Vacuum cleaner
FR908627A (fr) * 1941-03-24 1946-04-15 Gazogenes Imbert Procédé et dispositif pour le fonctionnement de filtres munis de masses filtrantes, de préférence pour l'épuration du gaz de gazogène, notamment pour l'alimentation des véhicules
US2441365A (en) * 1945-01-15 1948-05-11 Harley J Mcallister Vacuum cleaner
US2500832A (en) * 1945-01-29 1950-03-14 James B Kirby Vacuum cleaner
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US2516707A (en) * 1947-01-11 1950-07-25 Lewyt Corp Vacuum cleaner

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GB256407A (en) * 1925-08-25 1926-08-12 Arthur William Macleod Apparatus for eliminating air from the discharge of pressure pumps
GB379506A (en) * 1931-08-28 1932-09-01 Fisker & Nielsen As Improvements in and relating to vacuum cleaners
US2044827A (en) * 1935-03-13 1936-06-23 Joseph H Adams Vacuum cleaning apparatus
US2047594A (en) * 1935-08-23 1936-07-14 Spencer Turbine Co Dust and dirt separator
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US2441365A (en) * 1945-01-15 1948-05-11 Harley J Mcallister Vacuum cleaner
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US2507672A (en) * 1946-04-12 1950-05-16 Franklin Mcallister Corp Vacuum cleaner
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US2790508A (en) * 1957-04-30 Apparatus for removing dust by centrifugal force
US2741329A (en) * 1952-01-30 1956-04-10 Gen Electric Circumferential air discharge construction for suction cleaners
US2779432A (en) * 1953-05-07 1957-01-29 Lewyt Corp Vacuum cleaner assembly
US2721625A (en) * 1953-08-26 1955-10-25 Henney Motor Company Inc Canister type suction cleaner
US2954843A (en) * 1956-07-18 1960-10-04 Babcock & Wilcox Co Pocket shot separator
US2962118A (en) * 1958-12-23 1960-11-29 Black & Decker Mfg Co Electric vacuum cleaner
US3046718A (en) * 1959-04-08 1962-07-31 Kent Company Inc Suction cleaner
US3045412A (en) * 1959-09-03 1962-07-24 Premier Company Float seal for vacuum cleaners
US3390514A (en) * 1966-12-07 1968-07-02 Bullard Co Distribution and control manifold for air purifying apparatus
USD286336S (en) 1984-02-15 1986-10-21 Shop-Vac Corporation Tank for electric vacuum cleaner
US5535500A (en) * 1994-01-06 1996-07-16 Royal Appliance Mfg. Co. Method for manufacturing a bucket for a wet/dry vacuum cleaner

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