Vacuum-cleaner attachment

• US 4,180,887 A
• Filed: 01/16/1978
• Issued: 01/01/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Vorwerk & Company Interholding Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (Vorwerk & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Vorwerk & Company Interholding Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (Vorwerk & Company KG)
• Inventors: Haase, Georg, Wudel, Egon
• Primary Examiner(s): Coe, Philip R.
• Application Number:
  US05/869,855
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• Field of Search: 15/415 R, 15/359, 15/360, 15/371, 15/372
• US Class Current: 15/415.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/02 Nozzles suction nozzles for fluid transport B65G51/00

Abstract

A vacuum-cleaner attachment includes a mouthpiece and a suction nipple which communicates with a suction space bounded by the mouthpiece. Two stub shafts mount the mouthpiece on the suction nipple for relative pivoting, and an elastic element is interposed between the suction nipple and the mouthpiece and urges the latter toward a predetermined position thereof relative to the suction nipple. The elastic element may be a spring which is convoluted about an extension of one of the stub shafts and having two end portions, one of which is received in a slot-shaped depression of the stub shaft and the other of which abuts against the mouthpiece.

Claims

1. A vacuum-cleaner attachment comprising, in combination, a mouthpiece member bounding a suction space;

a suction nipple member;

means for so mounting said members on one another that said suction nipple member communicates with said suction space and is movable relative to said mouthpiece member along a plane which is substantially normal to a surface being vacuum cleaned during the use of the attachment, said mounting means including at least one pivot which connects said members for relative pivoting along said plane, said pivot being rigid with one of said members and having an extension; and

biasing means interposed between said members for urging one of said members toward a predetermined position relative to the other of said members, and to said surface in response to movement of said other member and including an elastic element which is affixed to said extension and has an engaging portion that acts on the other of said members to urge the same towards said predetermined position, said elastic element being a spring which is convoluted about said extension of said pivot, said spring having two end portions one of which is affixed to said extension and the other of which constitutes said engaging portion and abuts said other member.

2. A combination as defined in claim 1, wherein said pivot is a stub shaft rigid with said suction nipple member and extending therefrom normal to and away from said plane;

and wherein said mounting means further includes an additional stub shaft similar to and aligned with said stub shaft and located across said plane from the latter.

3. A combination as defined in claim 1, wherein said extension has a channel which receives said one end portion of said spring to affix the latter to said pivot.

4. A combination as defined in claim 3, wherein said extension has an end face;

and wherein said channel is configurated as a slot-shaped depression that extends across said extension and opens onto said end face.