Vacuum cleaner robot with a dual-outlet volute for cleaning swimming pools
AssigneeKokido Development Limited
InventorsJean Bruneel, Max Roumagnac
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Abstract
A submersible vacuum cleaner robot for cleaning artificial basins, including: a main body having a debris container; a filter; a volute with two discharge outlets; a suction and propulsion system producing a water circulation in the volute and a propulsive water jet; and electric power supply means, the volute being fixed and including a flap at each of said outlets, each flap having an open position and a closed position, the positions of said flaps automatically alternating according to the direction of the water circulation in the volute so as to reverse the direction of the propulsive water jet.
Claims10
A vacuum cleaner robot, submersible, for cleaning artificial basins, including:
- a main body comprising a debris container;
- a filter;
- a volute (20) with two discharge outlets;
- a suction and propulsion system producing a water circulation in the volute and a propulsive water jet;
- and electric power supply means, characterised in that the volute is fixed and includes a flap at each of said two discharge outlets having an open position and a closed position, the respective open and closed positions of said flaps automatically alternating according to the direction of the water circulation in the volute so as to reverse the direction of the propulsive water jet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.