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US 11,026,550 B2Granted
Surface cleaning apparatus, cyclonic air treatment member and surface cleaning apparatus including the same
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
A surface cleaning apparatus comprises an air treatment member having an air treatment chamber. A moveable member is positioned in the air treatment chamber. A driving assembly is drivingly connected to the moveable member wherein the driving assembly is reconfigurable between a stored position and an operable position in which the driving assembly is operable to longitudinally translate the moveable member through at least a portion of the chamber.
Claims20
A vacuum cleaner or extractor comprising:
- (a) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet;
- (b) an air treatment member having an air treatment chamber positioned in the air flow path, the air treatment chamber comprising an air treatment chamber air inlet, an air treatment chamber air outlet, an openable first end, a longitudinally spaced apart second end having the air treatment chamber air outlet and a longitudinally extending sidewall, wherein the air treatment chamber air outlet comprises a longitudinally extending porous member having a longitudinally extending porous sidewall;
- (c) a suction motor positioned in the air flow path upstream of the clean air outlet;
- (d) a moveable member positioned in the air treatment chamber, the moveable member comprising at least one of the porous member and a cleaning member positioned in the air treatment chamber between the sidewall of the air treatment chamber and the porous sidewall;
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- (e) a driving assembly comprising a handle and a driving linkage wherein the driving assembly is reconfigurable between a stored position in which the moveable member is in a storage position and an operable position in which the moveable member is translatable through at least a portion of the chamber, wherein when the driving assembly is in the operable position, the driving linkage consisting of a single longitudinally extending driving member which is connected to the moveable member, whereby, when the driving assembly is in the operable position, the driving assembly is operable to longitudinally translate the moveable member through at least a portion of the chamber.
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