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US 4,506,406 AGranted
Attachment tool for a vacuum cleaner hose
OwnerSalvatore LaMonteinventor
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Abstract
An attachment tool for a vacuum cleaner hose is disclosed taking the form of an elongated flattened tubular housing; one end being adapted to connect to a vacuum cleaner hose, and the other end terminating in a flattened air intake opening. One flat face of the housing has an elongated opening therein adjacent the other end of the housing; the elongated opening having a means for selectively covering it. A pair of elongated strip brushes extend along opposite sides of the elongated opening.
Claims6
An attachment tool for a vacuum cleaner hose, comprising:
- an elongated tubular housing having an end adapted for connection to a vacuum cleaner hose and an opposite end providing a flattened air intake opening,
- the flattened face of said housing being formed to provide an elongated opening therethrough,
- means on said housing formed for selectively covering said elongated opening for admitting air therethrough to the interior of said housing,
- and elongated brush means carried on said flattened face of said housing and extending along said elongated opening in immediate proximity thereto,
- said means for selectively covering said elongated opening comprising a flattened elongated rectangular panel mounted on said housing for endwise movement between a closed position fully covering said elongated opening and an open position uncovering said elongated opening,
- said housing being formed with confronting grooves running along the longer opposite sides of said opening, with the longer side edges of said panel being slideably mounted in said grooves.
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An attachment tool for a vacuum cleaner hose, comprising:
- an elongated flattened tubular housing having an end adapted for connection to a vacuum cleaner hose and an opposite end providing a flattened air intake opening,
- the flattened face of said housing being formed to provide an elongated opening therethrough,
- means on said housing for selectively covering said elongated opening for admitting air therethrough to the interior of said housing,
- and elongated brush means carried on said flattened face of said housing and extending along said elongated opening in immediate proximity thereto,
- said housing and said panel being of molded plastic having slots formed in said housing along the opposite longer sides of said opening,
- said elongated brush means being mounted in said slots.
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An attachment tool for a vacuum cleaner hose, comprising:
- an elongated flattened tubular housing having an end adapted for connection to a vacuum cleaner hose and an opposite end providing a flattened air intake opening,
- the flattened face of said housing being formed to provide an elongated opening therethrough,
- means on said housing formed for selectively covering said elongated opening for admitting air therethrough to the interior of said housing,
- a pair of elongated brush means carried on said flattened face of said housing and extending along said elongated opening in immediate proximity thereto,
- said brush means each being formed with a row composed of short nylon and boar's hair bristles held in a U-shaped elongated metal strip,
- said strip being removably secured to said housing alongside the longer opposite sides of said elongated opening.
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An attachment tool for a vacuum cleaner hose, comprising:
- an elongated tubular housing having an end adapted for connection to a vacuum cleaner hose and an opposite end providing a flattened air intake opening,
- the flattened face of said housing being formed to provide an elongated opening therethrough,
- means on said housing formed for selectively covering said elongated opening for admitting air therethrough to the interior of said housing,
- and elongated brush means carried on said flattened face of said housing and extending along said elongated opening in immediate proximity thereto,
- said brush means comprising a pair of strip brushes carried on said flattened face of said housing along both the longer sides of said opening and in immediate proximity to said opening.
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