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Filtering system

US7018438B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 29, 2002
Grant dateMar 28, 2006
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 30, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47L9/1666
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A vacuum cleaner having a reduced velocity chamber with a high velocity air inlet, an electric motor, a rotary blade driven by the motor to create a vacuum in the chamber, an outlet for exhausting air from the chamber, which air flows in a selected path from the air inlet, through the chamber and out the air exhaust outlet, a disposable porous sheet filter layer in the chamber for removing large solid particles from the air, and a disposable noncollapsible filter liner in the chamber and connected to the filter.

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