Dual purpose cleaning apparatus

In cleaning apparatus of the type including a main container having an inlet port open to the atmosphere, a second container supported within the main container and adapted to hold a detergent solution, a blower fan having an intake port communicating with the interior of the main container and a discharge port communicating through a first conduit to the interior of the second container and communicating through a second conduit to a bag means for collection contamination, the second container having a discharge conduit leading from the interior thereof and external to the main container, the improvement comprising:

• baffle means arranged with the discharge conduit of the second container and including means selectively operator-operated to a first position for permitting air drawn into the main container through the inlet nozzle upon operation of the blower fan to flow through the first conduit to the second container for passage through the detergent solution therein to provide suds for delivery through the discharge conduit;
• the baffle means selectively operator-operated to a second position for blocking delivery of suds through the discharge conduit of the second container, whereupon the air backs up in the first conduit and flows through the second conduit;
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• valve means supported within the collection bag means and closed when the air flows through the first conduit for sealing the bag means, and opened by the air flowing through the second conduit for unsealing the bag means whereupon said bag means receives the air flow.