Vacuum cleaner attachment

• US 3,209,385 A
• Filed: 04/08/1963
• Issued: 10/05/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John P. Bruck
• Original Assignee: John P. Bruck
• Inventors: Bruck, John P.
• Application Number:
  US04/271,416
• Time in Patent Office: 911 Days
• US Class Current: 15/325
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/06 with fixed, e.g. adjustably fixed brushes or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0613 with means specially adapted for picking up threads, hair or the like, e.g. brushes, combs, lint pickers or bristles pads
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0666 with tilting, floating or similarly arranged brushes, combs, lips or pads

Claims

1. A VACUUM CLEANER ATTACHMENT COMPRISING A BODY HAVING MEANS FOR MAKING A CONNECTION WITH A VACUUM CLEANER HOSE CONNECTED TO A SOURCE OF VACUUM, SAID BODY HAVING A CENTRAL EXHAUST PASSAGE THEREIN FOR COMMUNICATING WITH THE SOURCE OF VACUUM, SAID BODY ALSO HAVING AN INTAKE PASSGE COMMUNICATING WITH SAID EXHAUST PASSAGE AND HAVING FLARED ENDS EXTENDING TOWARD ENDS OF SAID BODY, A SQUEEGEE MOUNTED FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT IN SAID INTAKE PASSAGE AND EXTENDING BEYOND IT, SAID SQUEEGEE HAVING A FLEXIBLE BLADE WITH A LOWER UNBROKEN EDGE, SAID SQUEEGEE HAVING A PLURALITY OF OPENINGS LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF SPACED ABOVE SAID UNBROKEN EDGE, SAID SQUEEGEE BEING MOVABLE BETWEEN TWO SLANTED POSITIONS IN EACH OF WHICH POSITIONS SAID SQUEEGEE IS TRANSVERSELY LOCATED WITH RESPECT TO SAID INTAKE PASSAGE TO AT LEAST PARTIALLY RESTRICT THE FLOW OF AIR THROUGHIT BY SUBSTANTIALLY CONTACTING ONE SIDE OF SAID INTAKE PASSAGE AT THE TRAILING SIDE OF SAID SQUEEGEE AND BY CLOSELY APPROACHIGN THE OPPOSTIE SIDE OF SAID INTAKE PASSAGE AT THE UPPER LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF SAID SQUEEGEE, WHEREBY SAID OPENINGS INFLUENCE THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FLOW OF AIR THROUGH SAID INTAKE PASSAGE.