Surface cleaning apparatus with different cleaning configuration
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
A reconfigurable surface cleaning apparatus has a surface cleaning head, a support structure moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a storage position and a floor cleaning position and a portable cleaning unit removably mountable to the support structure. The support structure has a pair of laterally extending portions and the portable cleaning unit has a first mounting member comprising mating grooves which slideably receive the laterally extending portions when the portable cleaning unit is mounted to the support structure.
Claims18
A reconfigurable upright surface cleaning apparatus comprising, when configured in an upright operating mode:
- (a) a surface cleaning head having a dirty air inlet;
- (b) a support structure moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a storage position and a floor cleaning position;
- (c) a portable cleaning unit removably mountable to the support structure, the portable cleaning unit comprising an air treatment member and a suction motor;
- and,
- (d) an upright mode air flow path extending from the dirty air inlet to the air treatment member to a clean air outlet provided on the portable cleaning unit, the upright mode air flow path comprising the support structure, a wand and a flexible air flow conduit,
- wherein the reconfigurable upright surface cleaning apparatus is reconfigurable into a first portable mode in which the wand is removed from air flow communication with the surface cleaning head while the portable cleaning unit remains mounted to the support structure and a portable mode air flow path extends from an inlet of the wand to the clean air outlet provided on the portable cleaning unit and the portable mode air flow path comprises the wand and the flexible air flow conduit, and
- wherein the reconfigurable upright surface cleaning apparatus is reconfigurable into a second portable mode in which the wand is removed from air flow communication with the surface cleaning head and the portable cleaning unit is removed from the support structure, and
- wherein the support structure has a pair of laterally extending portions and the portable cleaning unit has a first mounting member comprising mating grooves which slideably receive the laterally extending portions when the portable cleaning unit is mounted to the support structure.
A reconfigurable upright surface cleaning apparatus comprising, when configured in an upright operating mode:
- (a) a surface cleaning head having a dirty air inlet;
- (b) a support structure moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a storage position and a floor cleaning position;
- (c) a portable cleaning unit removably mountable to the support structure, the portable cleaning unit comprising an air treatment member and a suction motor;
- and,
- (d) an upright mode air flow path extending from the dirty air inlet to the air treatment member to a clean air outlet provided on the portable cleaning unit, the upright mode air flow path comprising the support structure, a wand and a flexible air flow conduit,
- wherein the support structure has a pair of laterally extending portions and the portable cleaning unit has a first mounting member comprising mating grooves which slideably receive the laterally extending portions when the portable cleaning unit is mounted to the support structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.