Floor cleaner dock
AssigneeDyson Technology Limited
InventorOliver Dodgson
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Abstract
A dock for receiving a floor cleaner with a cleaning head, the dock including a receiving unit for receiving the cleaning head of the floor cleaner, and a hair removal unit for removing hair from a cleaning head received by the receiving unit. The hair removal unit may take a number of forms, for example a cutter and/or hook, a toothed comb, or a tapered roller. The removal of hair from the cleaning head of the floor cleaner may improve or maintain cleaning performance, and/or improve the aesthetics of the floor cleaner during use.
Claims13
A method of removing hair from a cleaning head of a floor cleaner, the method comprising the steps of:
- docking the floor cleaner with a dock such that the cleaning head is received in a receiving unit of the dock;
- wherein the dock comprises:
- a hair removal unit for removing hair from the cleaning head received by the receiving unit, wherein the hair removal unit comprises a tapered roller configured to rotate about a rotational axis and relative to the cleaning head;
- and
- activating the hair removal unit, resulting in rotation of the tapered roller about the rotational axis to remove hair from the cleaning head of the floor cleaner,
- wherein the tapered roller has opposite, first and second ends spaced from one another along the rotational axis and an outer peripheral surface extending therebetween, wherein an outer diameter of the tapered roller decreases along the rotational axis in a direction from the first end to the second end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.