Hand carryable surface cleaning apparatus
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorsWayne Ernest Conrad, Daniel Innes
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Abstract
A hand vacuum cleaner has an air treatment chamber, which comprises a stationary portion and an openable portion. The openable portion is moveably mounted by a mount between a closed position in which the air treatment chamber is closed and an open position in which the air treatment chamber is open. The Air treatment chamber has an air outlet comprising a screen and the screen is moveable with the openable portion.
Claims19
A hand vacuum cleaner having an upper end, a lower end, a front end, a rear end, a handle and first and second laterally opposed sides, each laterally opposed side extends in a forward/rearward direction, the hand vacuum cleaner comprising:
- (a) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet provided at the front end of the hand vacuum cleaner to a clean air outlet positioned rearward of the dirty air inlet;
- (b) a suction motor positioned in the air flow path upstream of the clean air outlet;
- and,
- (c) an air treatment member positioned in the air flow path, the air treatment member comprising an air treatment chamber, the air treatment chamber having a front end, a rearwardly disposed rear end, a sidewall that extends in a forward/rearward direction between the front end of the air treatment chamber and the rear end of the air treatment chamber, an air treatment chamber air inlet and an air treatment chamber air outlet, the air treatment chamber air outlet comprising a screen, the air treatment member comprises a stationary portion and an openable portion, the openable portion comprises a lower portion of the air treatment chamber, the openable portion is moveably mounted by a mount between a closed position in which the air treatment chamber is closed and an open position in which the air treatment chamber is open,
- wherein, when screen is moveable concurrently with the openable portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.