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US 2014/0245555 A1Published application
Floor cleaning appliance
AssigneeEuro-Pro Operating LLC
InventorsJason Boyd Thorne, Kai Xu
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Abstract
A pivoting and swiveling floor treatment appliance includes a lock-prevention member that prevents a body from becoming pivotally locked in a forward/backward direction when a portion of the body is in a swiveled position. The lock-prevention member may move relative to an appliance head and to a portion of the body that swivels. In some embodiments, components of the lock-prevention member contribute to locking the swivel of the body when the body is pivotally locked.
Claims33
A floor treatment appliance comprising:
- an appliance head to treat a floor surface;
- and
- a body pivotally connected to the appliance head, the body being pivotable between a use position and a locked position in which the body portion is lockable against pivoting,
- the body including a swivel joint that allows at least a portion of the body to swivel relative to the appliance head between at least a home swivel position and a non-home swivel position, and
- the body including a movable lock-prevention member which prevents the body from becoming pivotally locked in the locked position when the body is in the non-home swivel position, and permits the body to become pivotally locked in the locked position when the body is in the home swivel position, the movable lock-prevention member being movable relative to the portion of the body that swivels relative to the appliance head, and the lock-prevention member being moveable relative to the appliance head.
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A floor treatment appliance comprising:
- an appliance head to treat a floor surface;
- and
- a body pivotally connected to the appliance head, the body being pivotable between a use position and a pivotally-locked storage position, wherein
- the body includes a swivel joint that allows an upper portion of the body to swivel relative to a lower portion of the body between at least a home swivel position and a non-home swivel position, and
- the body includes a moveable swivel-prevention member that prevents swiveling of the upper body portion by interlocking the upper and lower body portions across the swivel joint whenever the body is brought to the pivotally-locked storage position.
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A floor treatment appliance comprising:
- an appliance head to treat a floor surface;
- a body pivotally connected to the appliance head, the body being pivotable between a use position and a locked position in which the body is pivotally lockable, the body including a swivel joint that allows a portion of the body to swivel relative to the appliance head between at least a home swivel position and a non-home swivel position;
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- a sensor component that prompts a stopping of operation of at least a portion of the appliance when the body is brought to the locked position with the body in the home swivel position,
- wherein the sensor does not prompt a stopping of operation of at least a portion of the appliance when the body is pivoted as far forward as possible with the body in the non-home swivel position.
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33-45. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.