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US 2020/0047192 A1Published application
Cyclonic air treatment member and surface cleaning apparatus including the same
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
A cyclonic air treatment member comprises a cyclone and a dirt collection chamber external to the cyclone chamber. The cyclone chamber extends longitudinally in an axial direction between a cyclone first end and a cyclone second end. The cyclone chamber includes an axially extending dirt outlet. A removable dirt outlet insert member may be removably receivable by a portion of the dirt outlet.
Claims20
A surface cleaning apparatus comprising an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet with a cyclone and a suction motor positioned in the air flow path, the cyclone comprising:
- (a) a cyclone chamber having a cyclone sidewall, a longitudinally extending cyclone axis of rotation, a cyclone first end, an cyclone second end spaced apart in a longitudinal axial direction from the cyclone first end, a cyclone air inlet proximate the cyclone first end, a cyclone air outlet located at the cyclone second end and a dirt outlet, wherein the dirt outlet has a length in the axial direction and a width in a circumferential direction and the length is greater than the width;
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- (b) a dirt collection chamber external to the cyclone chamber and in communication with the cyclone chamber via the dirt outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.