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US 6,883,202 B2Granted
Cleaning and tool storage assembly
AssigneeWhite Consolidated, Ltd.
InventorsCennert Steffen, Arnie Sepke, Vince Bobrosky, Scott Terven, John Morphey
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Abstract
A cleaning and tool storage assembly includes a housing having a base and a lid which is hingedly connected with the base. A vacuum cleaner assembly is disposed within the housing. A handle on the lid may be utilized to retain an electrical power cord. Articles, such as a hose, which are utilized in association with the vacuum cleaner, may be retained on the lid. A tray for holding items may be provided in the base of the housing. The tray may be removable from the housing to provide access to storage space. A cover for a dust bin of the vacuum cleaner may be opened with the tray in the housing.
Claims20
An assembly comprising:
- a vacuum cleaner;
- a housing defining a chamber containing said vacuum cleaner, said housing including a base and a lid hingedly connected to said base for movement between open and closed conditions, said lid having a manually engageable handle to facilitate carrying of said assembly when said lid is in the closed condition;
- and
- a tray to hold items in said base, said items being removable from said tray when said lid is in the open condition;
- said handle is movable relative to said lid between a stored condition and a carrying condition, said handle being disposed in a recess in said lid when said handle is in the stored condition, said handle being at least partially disposed outside of said recess in said lid when said handle is in the carrying condition, said handle includes projections to hold an electrical power cord on said handle when said handle is in the carrying condition.
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An assembly comprising:
- a vacuum cleaner;
- a housing defining a chamber containing said vacuum cleaner, said housing including a base and a lid hingedly connected to said base for movement between open and closed conditions, said lid having a manually engageable handle to facilitate carrying of said assembly when said lid is in the closed condition;
- and
- a tray to hold items in said base, said items being removable from said tray when said lid is in the open condition;
- said vacuum cleaner includes a motor, an impeller, and a dust bin which are disposed in said base, said dust bin having an inlet through which air with material entrained therein is drawn and an outlet through which a flow of air is conducted from said dust bin during operation of said motor, and a filter disposed in said dust bin to remove material entrained in the flow of air through said inlet.
2 more elements
An assembly comprising:
- a vacuum cleaner;
- a housing defining a chamber containing said vacuum cleaner, said housing including a base and a lid hingedly connected to said base for movement between open and closed conditions, said lid having a manually engageable handle to facilitate carrying of said assembly when said lid is in the closed condition;
- said handle includes a retainer which is movable between an extended position in which said retainer is effective to retain an electrical power cord on said handle and a retracted position;
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- a tray to hold items in said base, said items being removable from said tray when said lid is in the open condition.
2 more elements
An assembly comprising:
- a vacuum cleaner;
- a housing defining a chamber containing said vacuum cleaner, said housing including a base and a lid hingedly connected to said base for movement between open and closed conditions, said lid having a manually engageable handle to facilitate carrying of said assembly when said lid is in the closed condition;
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- a tray to hold items in said base, said items being removable from said tray when said lid is in the open condition;
- said handle includes a pair of mounting sections which are connected with said lid, a manually engageable grip section which extends between said mounting sections, a first retainer member which is movable between a retracted position in which said first retainer member is at least partially enclosed by said grip section and an extended position in which said first retainer member extends outward from said grip section in a first direction, and a second retainer member which is movable between a retracted position in which said second retainer member is at least partially enclosed by said grip section and an extended position in which said second retainer member extends outward from said grip section in a second direction opposite from said first direction, said first and second retainer members being effective to retain an electrical power cord on said handle when said first and second retainer members are in their extended positions.
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An assembly comprising:
- a vacuum cleaner, said vacuum cleaner includes a dust bin having a cover which is movable from a closed condition to an open condition to provide access to an interior of said dust bin;
- a housing defining a chamber containing said vacuum cleaner, said housing including a base and a lid hingedly connected to said base for movement between open and closed conditions, said lid having a manually engageable handle to facilitate carrying of said assembly when said lid is in the closed condition;
- and
- a tray to hold items in said base, said items being removable from said tray when said lid is in the open condition, said tray having a recess which provides access to said cover and enables said cover to be moved between the open and closed conditions when said tray is disposed in said base.
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An assembly comprising:
- a vacuum cleaner, said vacuum cleaner includes a dust bin having a cover which is movable from a closed condition to an open condition to provide access to an interior of said dust bin, and a suction inlet connected with said dust bin cover and adapted to be connected with a hose through which a flow of air with material entrained is conducted;
- a housing defining a chamber containing said vacuum cleaner, said housing including a base and a lid hingedly connected to said base for movement between open and closed conditions, said lid having a manually engageable handle to facilitate carrying of said assembly when said lid is in the closed condition;
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- a tray to hold items in said base, said items being removable from said tray when said lid is in the open condition.
1 more element
An assembly comprising:
- a vacuum cleaner;
- a housing defining a chamber containing said vacuum cleaner, said housing including a base and a lid hingedly connected to said base for movement between open and closed conditions, said lid having a manually engageable handle to facilitate carrying of said assembly when said lid is in the closed condition;
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- a tray to hold items in said base, said items being removable from said tray when said lid is in the open condition;
- said base has a generally rectangular configuration, said vacuum cleaner includes a dust bin disposed in a first corner portion of said base and a motor disposed in a second corner portion of said base, said dust bin and motor being spaced from third and fourth corner portions of said base, said tray being disposed above a bottom wall of said base and being at least partially disposed in said third and fourth corner portions of said base.
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An assembly comprising:
- a housing including a base and a lid movable between open and closed conditions;
- a dust bin disposed in said base, said dust bin having a cover which is movable from a closed condition to an open condition to provide access to an interior of said dust bin when said lid is in the open condition;
- a motor disposed in said base;
- an impeller connected in fluid communication with said dust bin and rotatable by said motor to induce a flow of air into said dust bin through an inlet to said dust bin and to induce a flow of air from said dust bin through an outlet from said dust bin, said inlet to said dust bin being connected with said cover and being movable with said cover between the open and closed conditions of said cover;
- a hose which is connectable with said inlet to said dust bin to enable a flow of air with material entrained therein to be conducted from said hose through said inlet to said dust bin during rotation of said impeller, said hose being connectable with said outlet from said dust bin to enable a flow of air to be conducted from said dust bin to said hose, said hose being connectable with said inlet to said dust bin when said lid is in the closed condition;
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- a storage area located within said base, said storage area having at least one compartment to accommodate storage of hand held articles.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.