Portable surface cleaning apparatus
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorsWayne Ernest Conrad, Jason Boyd Thorne, Sam Liu, Amy Kwok
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Abstract
A hand carryable surface cleaning apparatus comprises a body housing a suction motor and comprising a handle. The handle has a handgrip portion that extends upwardly in an upward direction when the surface cleaning apparatus is disposed on a horizontal surface, wherein the handle and a rear surface of the body define a finger gap in which a user may place the user's fingers while gripping the handle. The suction motor is positioned adjacent the rear surface of the body.
Claims19
A hand carryable surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a body housing a suction motor and comprising a handle;
- (b) the handle having a handgrip portion that extends upwardly in an upward direction when the surface cleaning apparatus is disposed on a horizontal surface, wherein the handle and a rear surface of the body define a finger gap in which a user may place the user's fingers while gripping the handle;
- (c) the suction motor having an axis of rotation that is oriented upwardly when the surface cleaning apparatus is disposed on a horizontal surface, the suction motor is positioned adjacent the rear surface of the body;
- (d) an air treatment member mounted to the body and having a central longitudinal axis;
- and,
- (e) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and including the suction motor and the air treatment member
- wherein the dirty air inlet has an inlet axis which intersects the handgrip portion.
A hand carryable surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a body having a suction motor housing which houses a suction motor and comprising a handle;
- (b) the handle having a handgrip portion that extends upwardly from a rearmost portion of the handgrip to a forward most portion of the handgrip when the surface cleaning apparatus is disposed on a horizontal surface, wherein the handle and a rear surface of the suction motor housing define a finger gap in which a user may place the user's fingers while gripping the handle;
- (c) the suction motor having an axis of rotation;
- (d) an air treatment member mounted to the body and having a central longitudinal axis and an openable door;
- and,
- (e) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and including the suction motor and the air treatment member,
- wherein the dirty air inlet comprises an inlet conduit that has an inlet axis which intersects the handgrip portion, the inlet conduit is provided at an upper end of the hand carryable surface cleaning apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.