Vacuum cleaner with a moveable divider plate
AssigneeG.B.D. Corp.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a dirt inlet, a handle, a cyclone separator having an outer wall, a fluid inlet downstream from the dirt air inlet and a fluid outlet, a plate having a cyclone chamber surface and positioned to substantially divide the cyclone separator into a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the plate being removably mounted in the cyclone separator, a passage extending between the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber and a fluid flow motor.
Claims20
A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- a. a dirt inlet;
- b. a handle;
- c. a cyclone separator having an outer wall, a fluid inlet downstream from the dirt air inlet and a fluid outlet;
- d. a plate having a cyclone chamber surface and positioned between a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the dirt collection chamber having an openable end, the plate being moveable between an in use position and an emptying position when the openable end is opened wherein, in the emptying position, the plate is in a position to permit dirt in the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber to be removed concurrently;
- and,
- e. a fluid flow motor.
A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a dirt inlet;
- (b) a handle;
- (c) a cyclone separator comprising a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the cyclone separator having a fluid inlet downstream from the dirt air inlet, an openable end and a fluid outlet;
- (d) a plate positioned between the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber at an openable end, the plate is moveably mounted between an in use position and an emptying position wherein the plate is in a position to permit dirt in the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber to be removed concurrently;
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- (e) a fluid flow motor.
A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a dirt inlet;
- (b) a handle;
- (c) a cyclone separator comprising a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the cyclone separator having a fluid inlet downstream from the dirt air inlet, an openable end and a fluid outlet;
- (d) a plate positioned between the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber, wherein the plate is pivotally mounted to the outer wall of the cyclone separator;
- and,
- (e) a fluid flow motor.
A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a dirt inlet;
- (b) a handle;
- (c) a cyclonic unit comprising a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber and having an openable end;
- (d) the cyclone chamber having an outer wall, a fluid inlet downstream from the dirt air inlet and a fluid outlet;
- (e) a plate positioned at the openable end and having a cyclone chamber surface and positioned between the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber, the plate being supported by the openable end;
- the plate is moveably mounted between an in use position and an emptying position wherein, in the emptying position, the plate is in a position to permit dirt in the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber to be removed concurrently and,
- (f) a fluid flow motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.