Upright type vacuum cleaner
AssigneeSamsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJung-seon Park, Hyung-il Jeon
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Abstract
An upright type vacuum cleaner has a locking to selectively restrain the pivoting of a handle assembly when the handle assembly is pivoted to be in a right angle with respect to a base. The locking device includes a locking portion disposed at a side of the base, a locking protrusion movably disposed at the handle assembly and selectively moving between a locking position where the locking protrusion contacts with the locking portion and an unlocking position where the locking protrusion releases out of the locking portion, and a pedal member pivotably disposed at the handle assembly to move the locking protrusion. As the pedal member is disposed at the handle assembly, the size of the base can be reduced and the manipulation of the pedal member becomes easy.
Claims13
An upright type vacuum cleaner comprising:
- a base having a suction port therein through which contaminants are drawn in from a surface to be cleaned and a locking portion formed thereon;
- a handle assembly connected to the base to relatively rotate with respect to the base, the handle assembly including a locking protrusion movably disposed therein and selectively movable between a locked position where the locking protrusion contacts with the locking portion and an unlocked position where the locking protrusion releases out of the locking portion;
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- a locking device adapted to fix the handle assembly with respect to the base when the handle assembly and the base are at a predetermined angle, and
- the locking device including,
- the locking portion,
- the locking protrusion, and
- a pedal member pivotably disposed at the handle assembly to move the locking protrusion between the locked and unlocked positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.