Wheeled adapter base for upright vacuum cleaners

The method of adapting an upright vacuum cleaner for vacuuming stairways comprising the steps of:

• extending a normally horizontally stowed leg to a generally vertical direction;
• partially supporting the cleaner on a step surface with a portion of the cleaner overhanging the step surface and the leg extending downwardly from that overhanging portion to engage and partially support the cleaner on the next lower step surface;
• coupling a flexible air transmitting hose to a cleaner suction inlet and a cleaning accessory to the hose end remote from the cleaner suction inlet;
• and
• vacuuming a plurality of steps before moving the cleaner to a position supported on a different pair of adjacent step surfaces.

A mobile adapter pedestal and accessory caddy for an upright vacuum cleaner comprising:

• a cleaner supporting bed having a plurality of depressions for accepting cleaner wheels, an opening for fitting snugly adjacent the suction mouth of the cleaner when the cleaner is supported in position on the bed, a coupler for receiving a flexible air hose, and a conduit leading from the opening to the coupler to transmit suction from the cleaner to a flexible air hose, the bed extending laterally beyond a supported cleaner, the laterally extending bed portion including means for supporting cleaner accessories;
• a plurality of wheels beneath the bed for rollably supporting the bed;
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• means for securing a cleaner in position on the bed with the cleaner wheels in the bed depressions and the cleaner suction mouth juxtaposed with the opening.

A mobile adapter pedestal and accessory caddy for an upright vacuum cleaner comprising:

• a cleaner supporting bed having a plurality of depressions for accepting cleaner wheels, an opening for fitting snugly adjacent the suction mouth of the cleaner when the cleaner is supported in position on the bed, a coupler for receiving a flexible air hose, and a conduit leading from the opening to the coupler to transmit suction from the cleaner to a flexible air hose;
• a plurality of wheels beneath the bed for rollably supporting the bid;
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• means for securing a cleaner in position on the bed with the cleaner wheels in the bed depressions and the cleaner suction mouth juxtaposed with the opening, comprising cam means selectively actuable to clear and to overlap an upper ledge of the cleaner.