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US 9,427,126 B2Granted
Surface cleaning apparatus
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
A surface cleaning apparatus, wherein the pre-motor filter dirt chamber is openable.
Claims20
A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a cyclone chamber having a first end having a first end wall, a second end having a second end wall, an air inlet, an air outlet and a sidewall;
- (b) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and including a suction motor and the cyclone chamber;
- and,
- (c) a pre-motor filter positioned in the air flow path downstream from the cyclone chamber and a pre-motor filter dirt chamber, wherein the pre-motor filter dirt chamber is openable and the pre-motor filter dirt chamber is contiguous with and exterior to the air flow path whereby air passing through the surface cleaning apparatus does not pass through the pre-motor filter dirt chamber.
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A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a cyclone chamber having a first end having a first end wall, a second end having a second end wall, an air inlet, an air outlet and a sidewall;
- (b) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and including a suction motor and the cyclone chamber;
- (c) a pre-motor filter positioned in the air flow path downstream from the cyclone chamber and a pre-motor filter dirt chamber, wherein the pre-motor filter dirt chamber is openable;
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- (d) a dirt collection chamber in communication with a dirt outlet of the cyclone chamber and having a dirt collection surface moveable between a closed and an open position wherein the pre-motor filter dirt chamber is concurrently openable with the dirt collection surface.
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A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a cyclone chamber having a first end having a first end wall, a second end having a second end wall, an air inlet, an air outlet, a sidewall and a dirt collection surface moveable between a closed and an open position;
- (b) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and including a suction motor and the cyclone chamber;
- (c) a pre-motor filter positioned in the air flow path downstream from the cyclone chamber and a pre-motor filter dirt chamber, wherein the pre-motor filter dirt chamber is openable;
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- (d) wherein the pre-motor filter dirt chamber is concurrently openable with the dirt collection surface of the cyclone chamber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.