Quick release cord storage hook
AssigneeConsolidated Foods Corporation
InventorJames W. Momberg
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Abstract
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an improved hook for use on an electrical appliance such as an upright vacuum cleaner or floor polisher, around which may be wound or looped the electric cord for storing the latter when the appliance is not in use, but which may be moved so as to quickly release all turns but one of the cord.
Claims6
In an electrical appliance having an upwardly extending handle for propelling the appliance over a surface, an electric motor located near the lower portion of said appliance, an electric cord for supplying current to said motor, a member movably secured to the upper end of said handle, said member having a first arm of sufficient extent to retain, when said member is in a first position, all of the turns of said electric cord looped therearound, said member being movable to a second position in which said first arm releases all of said turns, and said member having a second shorter arm so positioned as to catch and retain the first turn only of the looped cord when said member is moved to said second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.