Vacuum cleaner assembly

• US 3,085,279 A
• Filed: 01/05/1961
• Issued: 04/16/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Carl E. Meyerhoefer
• Original Assignee: Carl E. Meyerhoefer
• Inventors: Meyerhoefer, Carl E.
• Application Number:
  US04/080,781
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• US Class Current: 15/323
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/362 of the horizontal type, e.g. canister or sledge type
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0009 Storing devices winding devices for electric cables A47L9/26; Supports, stands or holders
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0027 specially adapted for holding the suction cleaning tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/26 Incorporation of winding devices for electric cables devices specially adapted for repeatedly paying-out or re-storing cables B65H75/34; arrangements of electrical cables or lines between relatively-movable parts H02G11/00

Claims

5. A VACUUM CLEANER INCLUDING IN COMBINATION A CASING FORMED WITH INLET AND OUTLET OPENINGS, A MOTOR-BLOWER UNIT, A SHELL SECURED TO SAID CASING AND EXTENDING INWARDLY THEREOF, SAID SHELL INCLUDING SURFACES PROJECTING AT ANGLES WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER, A GASKET CARRIED FOR MOVEMENT WITH SAID UNIT, A FLEXIBLE PORTION FORMING A PART OF SAID GASKET AND ENGAGEABLE WITH ONE OF SAID SHELL SURFACES, A SUPPORTING BEARING CONNECTED TO SAID UNIT AND ENGAGEABLE WITH ANOTHER OF SAID SURFACES WHEREBY SAID UNIT MAY ROTATE WITH RESPECT TO SAID CASING, AN ELECTRICAL CORD-RECEIVING MEMBER SUPPORTED FOR ROTATION WITH SAID UNIT AND DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CASING, THE LATTER BEING FORMED WITH AN OPENING THROUGH ONE END OF WHICH A CORD MAY PASS AND MANUALLY CONTROLLED MEANS EXTERIORLY OF SAID CASING AND CONNECTED WITH SAID RECEIVING MEMBER FOR ROTATING IT AND SAID UNIT.