US 8,117,714 B2 · Vacuum cleaner with hair collection element

Abstract

A vacuum cleaner comprises a hair collection assembly having a hair collection element adapted to collection hair from a surface. The hair collection assembly can be mounted to the cleaning head of the vacuum cleaner for movement between a use position in which the hair collection element is in contact with the surface and a second position in which the hair collection element in spaced from the surface. The hair collection element can further be configured to collect hair from the surface when the cleaning head is moved in a first direction and to not collect hair from the surface when the cleaning head is moved in a second direction. A method of removing hair from a surface is also described.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A vacuum cleaner comprising:

a cleaning head having a suction nozzle adapted to be moved along a surface to be cleaned;
and
a hair collection assembly comprising:
a mounting assembly coupled with the cleaning head;
at least four link arms coupled to the mounting assembly;
and
a hair collection element adapted to collect hair from the surface to be cleaned, and pivotally mounted to the at least four link arms to maintain a parallel relationship between the hair collection element and the surface to be cleaned;
wherein the hair collection assembly is mounted to the cleaning head for movement of the hair collection element between a first position in which the hair collection element is in contact with the surface to be cleaned, and a second position, in which the hair collection element is spaced from the surface to be cleaned.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/683,744Filed 8 Mar 2007 · continuation in part

Priority

9 Mar 2005

Published

US 2007/0143954 A128 Jun 2007

Granted

21 Feb 2012

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

A47L 9/0613
Rigidly anchored brushes, combs, lips or pads: with means specially adapted for picking up threads, hair or the like, e.g. brushes, combs, lint…
A47L 7/0066
Suction cleaners adapted for additional purposes ; Tables with suction openings for cleaning purposes; Containers for cleaning articles by…:…
A47L 9/02
Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices…:…
A47L 9/0422
Driving means for the brushes or agitators: driven by the rotation of the supporting wheels on which the nozzle travels over the floor

Family

Application60/659,786Us provisional application · filed 9 Mar 2005

Application11/371,721Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 9 Mar 2006

US 2007/0143954 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Jun 2007

US 7,305,731 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2006/0200926 A1Published application

US 8,117,714 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

Vacuum cleaner with hair collection element

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Abstract

Claims22