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US 9,060,665 B2Granted
Floor cleaning appliance
AssigneeEuro-Pro Operating LLC
InventorsJason Boyd Thorne, Kai Xu
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Abstract
A pivoting and swiveling floor treatment appliance includes a lock-prevention member that prevents a body from becoming pivotally locked in a forward/backward direction when a portion of the body is in a swiveled position. The lock-prevention member may move relative to an appliance head and to a portion of the body that swivels. In some embodiments, components of the lock-prevention member contribute to locking the swivel of the body when the body is pivotally locked.
Claims24
A floor treatment appliance comprising:
- an appliance head to treat a floor surface;
- a body pivotally connected to the appliance head, the body being pivotable between a use position and a locked position in which at least one of an upper portion of the body and a lower portion of the body is lockable against pivoting;
- the body including a swivel joint that allows at least one of the upper portion of the body and the lower portion of the body to swivel relative to the appliance head between at least a home swivel position and a non-home swivel position;
- the body including a lock-prevention member which prevents the lower portion of the body from becoming locked in the locked position when the upper portion of the body is in the non-home swivel position, and permits the lower portion of the body to become locked in the locked position when the upper portion of the body is in the home swivel position, the lock-prevention member being movable relative to at least one of the upper portion of the body and the lower portion of the body that swivels relative to the appliance head, and the lock-prevention member being moveable relative to the appliance head;
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- wherein the body further includes a swivel disk that rotates relative to the lock-prevention member, and wherein when the body is in the non-home swivel position, the swivel disk limits the distance which the lock-prevention member can move relative to the body.
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A floor treatment appliance comprising:
- an appliance head to treat a floor surface;
- a body pivotally connected to the appliance head, the body being pivotable between a use position and a storage position;
- wherein the body includes a swivel joint that allows an upper portion of the body to swivel relative to a lower portion of the body between at least a home swivel position and a non-home swivel position;
- the body includes a swivel-prevention member that prevents swiveling of the upper body portion by interlocking the upper portion of the body and the lower portion of the body across the swivel joint whenever the body is brought to the storage position;
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- wherein the body includes a swivel disk that is rotatable relative to the swivel-prevention member when the body is in the use position, and wherein when the body is in the storage position, the swivel-prevention member prevents the swivel disk from rotating relative to the appliance head.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.