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US 11,700,986 B2Granted
Vacuum cleaner
AssigneeBISSELL Inc.
InventorGary A. Kasper
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Abstract
A vacuum cleaner includes an upright handle assembly, a foot assembly adapted to be moved along a surface to be cleaned and having a suction nozzle, a multi-axis joint swivelably mounting the upright handle assembly to the foot assembly and defining a first axis about which the upright handle assembly twists relative to the foot assembly and a second axis about which the upright handle assembly pivot relative to the foot assembly, and a detachable vacuum module supported on the upright handle assembly by the module platform.
Claims19
An upright vacuum cleaner, comprising:
- an upright handle assembly comprising an elongated structural support and a module platform having an upper surface extending forwardly from the elongated structural support;
- a foot assembly adapted to be moved along a surface to be cleaned and having a suction nozzle;
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- a multi-axis joint swivelably mounting a lower portion of the module platform of the upright handle assembly to an upper portion of the foot assembly and defining a first axis about which the upright handle assembly twists relative to the foot assembly and a second axis about which the upright handle assembly pivots relative to the foot assembly a working air path formed from the suction nozzle and passing through the multi-axis joint, wherein the multi-axis joint comprises:
- a pivot neck coupled to the upright handle assembly;
- a pivot ring coupled with the foot assembly and rotatably mounted to the pivot neck to permit rotation about the first axis;
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- a biasing mechanism provided within the multi-axis joint and operable to bias the upright handle assembly about the first axis towards a neutral position centered along a vertical plane through the multi-axis joint.
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An upright vacuum cleaner, comprising:
- an upright handle assembly including an elongated structural support having a handle grip, the upright handle assembly including a module platform having an upper surface and a bottom surface, opposite the upper surface, the upper surface of the module platform extending forwardly from the elongated structural support;
- a foot assembly adapted to be moved along a surface to be cleaned and having a suction nozzle;
- a multi-axis joint swivelably mounting the bottom surface of the module platform of the upright handle assembly to the foot assembly and defining a first axis about which the upright handle assembly twists relative to the foot assembly and a second axis about which the upright handle assembly pivots relative to the foot assembly, wherein the multi-axis joint comprises a biasing mechanism provided within the multi-axis joint and operable to bias the upright handle assembly;
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- a detachable vacuum module selectively mounted on the upper surface of the module platform of the upright handle assembly with a working air path formed from the suction nozzle, passing through the multi-axis joint and to the detachable vacuum module.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.