Cleaner with scent dispensing
AssigneeThe Hoover Company
InventorRobert C. Shorthill
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Abstract
A hard bag portion of a vacuum cleaner is provided with a scent dispensing arrangement where suction airflow is valved at the hard bag portion before the downstream disposed scent tablet. It includes a manually actuated loosely mounted, slide member having a pocket for containing a scent tablet. This slide and its pocket move sidewardly to be centered on or offset from a slot in the hard bag through which vacuum cleaner discharge air flows. This air flow impinges directly or indirectly of the scent tablet to provide a flow of lesser or greater scented air which escapes around the loosely mounted slide member.
Claims5
A scent dispensing arrangement for a vacuum cleaner including:
- a) a hard bag housing door of said vacuum cleaner;
- b) a depression formed in said hard bag housing door and having an opening;
- c) a scent dispenser slide mounted generally outwardly of said hard bag door and being capable of reciprocatory motion in said depression;
- d) said scent dispenser slide including a medallion portion substantially covering said depression opening;
- e) said scent dispenser slide inwardly mounting a scent tablet;
- f) said scent dispenser serving to at least partially obscure said opening during portions of its said reciprocatory motion;
- g) a flow of vacuum cleaning exhaust air flowing to said scent tablet through an exit port in said hard bag housing to receive scent for its flow;
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- h) said scent dispensing arrangement having no external venting downstream of said scent tablet so that said scented exhaust flow solely escapes directly, closely around the perimeter said medallion portion.
A scent dispensing arrangement utilized with a vacuum cleaner including:
- a) a vacuum cleaner hard housing portion;
- b) an exhaust port in said hard housing portion for the discharge of cleaner suction air;
- c) a movable scent dispenser mounted movably in a depression formed in said hard housing portion;
- d) said movable scent dispenser disposed outwardly of said exit port and downstream thereof;
- e) a scent tablet disposed in a well in said scent dispenser;
- f) said exhaust port being disposed in said hard housing portion to open outwardly towards said well;
- g) said scent tablet being situatable centered directly adjacent said exhaust port in at least one position of said movable scent dispenser and offset from a centered relationship in at least one other position of said scent dispenser;
- i) said movable scent dispenser thereby providing a selected scent concentration flow of cleaner exhaust air to ambient by moving relative to said exhaust port to move said scent tablet relative to said exhaust port;
- j) whereby said discharge of suction cleaner air impinges directly outwardly on said scent tablet to a greater or lesser degree depending on the movable position of said scent dispenser within said depression.
A scent dispensing arrangement for a vacuum cleaner including:
- a) a hard housing portion of said vacuum cleaner;
- b) a depression formed in said hard housing portion and having an opening;
- c) a scent dispenser slide mounted generally outwardly of said hard bag housing portion and being capable of reciprocating motion in said depression;
- d) said scent dispenser slide including a medallion portion substantially covering said depression opening;
- e) said scent dispenser slide mounting a scent tablet;
- f) said scent dispenser serving to at least partially obscure said opening during portions of said reciprocatory motion;
- g) said hard housing portion having an exit port;
- h) a flow of vacuum cleaning exhaust air flowing to said scent tablet through said exit port to receive scent for its flow;
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- i) said scent dispensing arrangement having no external venting so that said scented exhaust flow escapes solely around said medallion portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.