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Electric vacuum cleaner

US5557822A · kind A · utility

44Cited by
7References
17Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 14, 1994
Grant dateSep 24, 1996
Priority date
Expiry dateOct 14, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47L9/0483
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An electric vacuum cleaner having a suction nozzle comprising a dust inlet formed in a bottom surface of a nozzle body and a rotary brush rotatably mounted therein along said dust inlet, wherein said electric vacuum cleaner having either or both of configurations that said nozzle body has a flexible member mounted to a front wall thereof to rotate back and forth corresponding to the backward and forward movement of said nozzle body so that the flexible member comes in contact with a floor to cover a lower portion of said front wall, and that said nozzle body has a sliding piece slidably mounted on at least one of side walls thereof to open and close the side face corresponding to the backward and forward movement of said nozzle body.

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