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US 2017/0245701 A1Published application
Hand vacuum cleaner
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
A hand vacuum cleaner has a cleaner body and a post-motor filter is positioned in the air flow passage downstream from and aligned with the suction motor and, the post-motor filter and the cleaner body are separable.
Claims20
A hand vacuum cleaner comprising:
- a) an air flow passage extending from a dirty air inlet to a clear air outlet;
- b) a main body comprising a suction motor positioned in the air flow passage, a front end, a rear end spaced apart from the front end in a rearward direction, the suction motor having a front inlet end, an opposed rear end and a suction motor axis;
- c) a cyclone unit positioned in the air flow passage upstream from the suction motor;
- and,
- d) a post-motor filter housing provided at a rear end of the suction motor, the post-motor filter housing defining a post-motor filter chamber which contains a post-motor filter, wherein the suction motor axis extends through the post-motor filter chamber and wherein the post-motor filter housing is removably mounted at the rear end of the main body.
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The hand vacuum cleaner of claim 17, further comprising a finger gap defined in part by the handle wherein the finger gap is forward of the post-motor filter and rearward of the cyclone unit.
A hand vacuum cleaner comprising:
- a) an air flow passage extending from a dirty air inlet to a clear air outlet;
- b) a main body comprising a suction motor positioned in the air flow passage, a front end, a rear end spaced apart from the front end in a rearward direction, the suction motor having a front inlet end, an opposed rear end and a suction motor axis;
- c) a cyclone unit positioned in the air flow passage upstream from the suction motor;
- d) a post-motor filter housing provided at a rear end of the suction motor, the post-motor filter housing defining a post-motor filter chamber which contains a post-motor filter, and,
- e) a handle and finger gap defined in part by the handle wherein the finger gap is forward of the post-motor filter and rearward of the cyclone unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.