Vacuum cleaner with a divider

US7803207B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• G.B.D. CORP. · BS

Inventor

• Wayne Ernest Conrad · Hampton, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 2007
• Grant date: Sep 28, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 28, 2029

Classification

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

Abstract

An indoor vacuum cleaner comprises a dirty air inlet, a handle, a cyclone separator having an outer wall, a fluid inlet downstream from the dirty 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, each of the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber having an outer wall, the outer wall of each of the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber having an outer perimeter, the dirt collection chamber having a cyclone chamber end spaced from a dirt collection floor, a passage extending between the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber, the passage configured such that separated dirt travels at least outwardly as the dirt travels through the passage and, an air flow motor.