Battery-powered vacuum cleaner
AssigneeBlack & Decker Inc.
InventorKevin SMITH
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Abstract
A vacuum cleaner comprising: a motor coupled to a fan for generating air flow; a body with a handle; a dirty air duct with a dirty air inlet; a battery pack housing at least one rechargeable cell for powering the motor; and a dirt separating means located in a path of the air flow generated by the fan, wherein the dirt separating means comprises: a hollow substantially cylindrical dirt container with a longitudinal central axis; and an air inlet port to the dirt container, wherein the air inlet port is in communication with the dirty air duct and wherein the battery pack has a curvilinear or annular cross-sectional profile transverse to the central axis and a curvilinear inner wall embracing the dirt container.
Claims14
A vacuum cleaner comprising:
- a motor coupled to a fan for generating air flow;
- a body with a handle;
- a dirty air duct with a dirty air inlet;
- a battery pack housing at least one rechargeable cell for powering the motor;
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- a dirt separating means located in a path of the air flow generated by the fan;
- wherein the dirt separating means comprises:
- a hollow substantially cylindrical dirt container with a longitudinal central axis;
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- an air inlet port to the dirt container;
- wherein the air inlet port is in communication with the dirty air duct and wherein the battery pack has a curvilinear or annular cross-sectional profile transverse to the central axis and a curvilinear inner wall embracing the dirt container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.