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US 2026/0053313 A1Published application
Air treatment unit
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
A docking station has an openable dirt collection region which, during an evacuation operation of the docking station, receives dirt that is transferred from a surface cleaning apparatus; and a lock having a locked position in which the dirt collection region is secured in a closed position, and an unlocked position in which the dirt collection region is openable. During the evacuation operation, the lock is inhibited from moving to the unlocked position.
Claims15
A docking station comprising:
- (a) an openable dirt collection region which, during an evacuation operation of the docking station, receives dirt that is transferred from a surface cleaning apparatus,
- (b) a lock having a locked position in which the dirt collection region is secured in a closed position, and an unlocked position in which the dirt collection region is openable,
- wherein, during the evacuation operation, the lock is inhibited from moving to the unlocked position.
An apparatus comprising:
- (a) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet with a suction motor positioned in the air flow path;
- (b) an openable dirt collection region into which dirt is pneumatically transferred when the suction motor is actuated,
- (c) a lock having a locked position in which the dirt collection region is secured in a closed position, and an unlocked position in which the dirt collection region is openable,
- wherein, during operation of the suction motor, the lock is inhibited from moving to the unlocked position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.