Bottom plate for a carpet power cleaner
AssigneeVorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
InventorHans Schmitz
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Abstract
A bottom plate for a carpet power cleaner has a body part, detents provided on the body part and detachably engageable in a housing of a carpet power cleaner. The detents may be of one piece with the body part. The detents may extend through cutouts provided in a lower wall of the housing so as to engage with the latter. The detents may have bent end sections which are engageable with detent edges located downstream of the cutouts of the housing. The body part may have a rear edge provided with inwardly extending flanging.
Claims9
A bottom plate for a carpet power cleaner having a housing and a brush arranged in the housing, the bottom plate comprising a body part including two portions which are spaced from one another, one of said portions being attached to the housing, whereas the other of said portions is provided with a detent which is detachably engageable in the housing;
- and a plurality of transverse bar members extending between and connecting said two portions with one another and guiding the brush, said transverse members being pivotally connected to said body part, so that said other portion, after being disengaged from the housing, can be turned together with said transverse member relative to said one portion to allow removal of the brush without detachement of said one portion and thereby without detachment of the whole body part from the housing.
A carpet power cleaner, comprising a housing;
- a brush arranged in the housing;
- and bottom plate having a body part including two portions which are spaced from one another, one of said portions being attached to said housing, whereas the other of said portions is provided with a detent which is detachably engageable in said housing, said body part also including a plurality of transverse bar members extending between and connecting said two portions of said body part with one another and guiding the brush, said transverse members being pivotally connected to said body part, so that said other portion of said body part after being disengaged from said housing can be turned together with said transverse member relative to said one portion of said body part to allow removal of said brush without detachement of said one portion and thereby without detachment of the whole body part from said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.