Vacuum cleaner with a moveable divider plate

US7776120B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• G.B.D. CORP. · BS

Inventor

• Wayne Ernest Conrad · Hampton, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 2007
• Grant date: Aug 17, 2010
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S55/03
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a dirt inlet, a handle, a cyclone separator having an outer wall, a fluid inlet downstream from the dirt air inlet and a fluid outlet, a plate having a cyclone chamber surface and positioned to substantially divide the cyclone separator into a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the plate being removably mounted in the cyclone separator, a passage extending between the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber and a fluid flow motor.