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US 9,999,333 B2Granted
Floor cleaning appliance
AssigneeSharkNinja 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.
Claims14
A floor treatment appliance comprising:
- an appliance head to treat a floor surface;
- a body having a lower body portion pivotally connected to the appliance head, the lower body portion being pivotable about a first axis between a use position and a locked position in which the body is pivotally lockable, the body including a swivel joint that allows an upper body portion of the body to swivel about a second axis transverse to the first axis relative to the appliance head between at least a home swivel position and a non-home swivel position;
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- a sensor component that prompts a stopping of operation of at least one powered component of the appliance when the body is brought to the locked position with the body in the home swivel position,
- wherein the sensor does not prompt a stopping of operation of the at least one powered component of the appliance when the body is pivoted as far forward as possible with the body in the non-home swivel position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.