Suction device and method for operating a suction device
AssigneeAlfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsStefan Hess, Daniel Eckstein, Guenther Holzwarth, Juergen Steinbach
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Abstract
A suction device, including a suction unit, a suction line arrangement that is fluidically connected to the suction unit, a fluid supplying arrangement, a discharge arrangement for fluid, which is fluidically connected to the fluid supplying arrangement, and a guide element that is couplable to the discharge arrangement and the suction line arrangement and that guides fluid from the discharge arrangement into the suction line arrangement, for cleaning the suction line arrangement.
Claims30
A suction device, comprising:
- a suction unit;
- a suction line arrangement that is fluidically connected to the suction unit;
- a fluid supplying arrangement;
- a discharge arrangement for fluid, which is fluidically connected to the fluid supplying arrangement;
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- a guide element that is couplable to the discharge arrangement and the suction line arrangement and that guides fluid from the discharge arrangement into the suction line arrangement, for cleaning the suction line arrangement.
A method for operating a suction device, which comprises a suction line arrangement and a discharge arrangement for fluid, said method comprising:
- for cleaning the suction line arrangement, introducing fluid from the discharge arrangement into the suction line arrangement;
- and removing fluid by suction in the suction line arrangement by way of a suction unit of the suction device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.