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US 4,539,026 AGranted
Suction cleaner bag
AssigneeThe Hoover Company
InventorHarbey Kuplas
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Abstract
A dirt collecting bag is disclosed having a face plate or collar with a slotted configuration along one of its edges to aid in mechanical transfer of it from a storage magazine to a bag mounting and transfer apparatus in a vacuum cleaner.
Claims3
A pleated bag having an aperture therein and an apertured collar attached thereto about said bag aperture, and including;
- (a) said collar having a margin extending therearound,
- (b) at least a first tab attached to the collar and extending along said margin and jutting outwardly from said margin,
- (c) said tab spaced outwardly from such margin to form a slot between said tab and said margin,
- (d) said first tab is formed in alignment with at least a second tab attached to said collar,
- (e) said second tab is spaced from said margin to form a slot therebetween and juts outwardly therefrom,
- (f) said tabs include a hook-shaped portion at their free ends,
- (g) said first tab and said second tab attached to a single edge of said margin and extending generally parallel thereto, and
- (h) said tabs being substantially aligned with each other in end to end relationship.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.