Divided dust collector housing

• US 3,304,572 A
• Filed: 01/06/1965
• Issued: 02/21/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Adolph H. Wendel
• Original Assignee: Adolph H. Wendel
• Inventors: Wendel, Adolph H.
• Application Number:
  US04/423,720
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• US Class Current: 15/352
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/20 combined with vacuum cleaning devices
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/40 Parts or details of machines not provided for in groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, or not restricted to one of these groups, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4013 Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4025 Means for emptying
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/403 Means for monitoring filtering operation
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4033 Means for cleaning filters
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4044 Vacuuming or pick-up tools; Squeegees
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4075 Handles; levers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4094 Accessories to be used in combination with conventional vacuum-cleaning devices
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 1/0854 Apparatus in which the mechanically dislodged dirt is partially sucked-off, e.g. dislodging- sweeping apparatus with dirt collector in brush housing or dirt container mechanical dislodging machines with independent suction nozzles E01H1/0827; combined with blowing and suction E01H1/0872

Claims

4. IN A SWEEPING MACHINE HAVING A BRUSH AND A SUCTION BLOWER THEREON, A DUST COLLECTOR HOUSING COMPRISING AN ENCLOSURE MOUNTED ON THE MACHINE AND HAVING A DEBRIS OPENING ADJACENT THE BRUSH TO RECEIVE SWEPT DEBRIS THEREFROM AND AN AIR OUTLET, MEANS TO CONNECT THE AIR OUTLET TO THE SUCTION BLOWER TO PARTIALLY EVACUATE THE HOUSING, A FILTER BARRIER IN SAID HOUSING, AND AN AIR TIGHT BAFFLE IN SAID HOUSING DIVIDING SAID HOUSING INTO UPPER AND LOWER COMPARTMENTS WITH THE DEBRIS OPENING IN THE LOWER COMPARTMENT AND THE FILTER AND AIR OUTLET IN THE OTHER COMPARTMENT, SAID BAFFLE HAVING AN OPENING DEFINED THERETHROUGH TO FORM A PREDETERMINED PATH OF AIR FLOW FROM THE DEBRIS OPENING TO THE AIR OUTLET OF THE HOUSING, AND THE BAFFLE BEING SPACED DOWNWARDLY FROM AN UPPER WALL DEFINING THE UPPER COMPARTMENT OF SAID HOUSING TO FORM A DUST OUTLET FOR THE UPPER COMPARTMENT ADJACENT TO THE DEBRIS OPENING AND FLEXIBLE SEALING MEANS ON SAID SWEEPING MACHINE ADAPTED TO COVER SAID DUST OUTLET AND SUBSTANTIALLY PREVENT MOVEMENT OF AIR THROUGH THE DUST OUTLET INTO THE UPPER COMPARTMENT WHEN SAID HOUSING IS MOUNTED ON SAID MACHINE IN SWEEPING POSITION.