Tufting method and brushroll for vacuum cleaner
AssigneeBISSELL Homecare, Inc.
InventorGary A. Kasper
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Abstract
A method of tufting, with a tufting tool, a brushroll dowel for a vacuum cleaner having a bristle stiffener protruding from the dowel and a bristle hole adjacent the bristle stiffener. The tufting tool includes a notch. The method provides a brushroll with bristles tufted into the bristle hole adjacent the bristle stiffener. A brushroll for a vacuum cleaner can be made using an injection molding process, with bristle stiffeners integrally molded with the dowel and a plurality of stiffened bristles protruding from the brush dowel adjacent to the bristle stiffeners.
Claims16
A method of tufting, with a tufting tool, a brushroll dowel for a vacuum cleaner having a bristle stiffener protruding from the dowel and a bristle hole adjacent the bristle stiffener, comprising:
- positioning the tufting tool relative to the brushroll dowel to at least partially receive the bristle stiffener within a notch on the tufting tool;
- inserting bristles into the tufting tool;
- guiding the bristles from the tufting tool into the bristle hole;
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- fastening the bristles in the bristle hole.
A method of tufting, with a tufting tool, a brushroll dowel for a vacuum cleaner having a bristle stiffener protruding from the dowel and a bristle hole adjacent the bristle stiffener, wherein the bristle stiffener projects beyond one side of the bristle hole in a radial direction from the dowel, the method comprising:
- positioning the tufting tool comprising a notch relative to the brushroll dowel to at least partially receive the bristle stiffener within the notch on the tufting tool;
- inserting bristles into the tufting tool;
- guiding the bristles from the tufting tool into the bristle hole;
- and
- fastening the bristles in the bristle hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.