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US 2008/0172992 A1Published application
Vacuum cleaner with openable lid
AssigneeG.B.D. Corp.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
A surface cleaning apparatus comprises two or more side-by-side housings, which contain operating components of the surface cleaning apparatus, such as fluid cleaning members or one or more fluid cleaning members and the suction motor of the cleaning apparatus, to provide a cleaning apparatus having a reduced height.
Claims34
A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) at least first and second adjacent housings, each housing having an upper portion;
- (b) at least one openable lid provided on the upper portions, the lid having an inner surface;
- (c) a fluid flow path extending from a dirty fluid inlet to a clean air outlet of the surface cleaning apparatus and including a suction motor;
- and,
- (d) an air flow passage from the first housing to the second housing forming part of the fluid flow path and defined as a volume between the inner surface of the lid and the upper portions of the first and second housings,
- whereby, when the lid is opened, the airflow passage is accessible.
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A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a fluid flow path extending from a dirty fluid inlet to a clean air outlet of the surface cleaning apparatus and including a suction motor
- (b) at least first and second adjacent housings, each housing having an upper portion, the first housing includes a cyclone and the second housing includes the suction motor;
- (c) at least one top panel provided on the upper portions, the top panel having an inner surface;
- and,
- (d) an air flow passage from the first housing to the second housing forming part of the fluid flow path and defined as a volume between the inner surface of the top panel and the upper portions of the first and second housings.
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A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a fluid flow path extending from a dirty fluid inlet to a clean air outlet of the surface cleaning apparatus and including a suction motor;
- (b) at least first and second adjacent housings, each housing having an upper portion, the first housing having at least one cyclone having a cyclone chamber and a cyclone chamber outlet, wherein air travels from the cyclone chamber to the cyclone chamber outlet without passing through a porous member;
- (c) at least one top panel provided on the upper portions, the top panel having an inner surface;
- and,
- (d) an air flow passage from the first housing to the second housing forming part of the fluid flow path and defined as a volume between the inner surface of the top panel and the upper portions of the first and second housings.
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A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a fluid flow path extending from a dirty fluid inlet to a clean air outlet of the surface cleaning apparatus and including a suction motor;
- (b) at least first and second adjacent housings, each housing having an upper portion;
- (c) an air flow passage from the first housing to the second housing forming part of the fluid flow path and defined as a volume between the inner surface of the lid and the upper portions of the first and second housings;
- and,
- (d) at least one filter that is visible when the top panel is opened.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.