Vacuum cleaner accessory bracket

• US 4,683,607 A
• Filed: 05/09/1985
• Issued: 08/04/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: The Scott Fetzer Company (Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: The Scott Fetzer Company (Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated)
• Inventors: Bartasevich, William E. Jr., Lackner, John R.
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US06/732,395
• Time in Patent Office: 817 Days
• Field of Search: 15/323, 15/339, 15/410
• US Class Current: 15/323
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/28 Suction cleaners with handles and nozzles fixed on the casings, e.g. wheeled suction cleaners with steering handle A47L5/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0009 Storing devices winding devices for electric cables A47L9/26; Supports, stands or holders

Abstract

A bracket for carrying an accessory appliance on an elongate handle of a primary appliance comprises a bracket body which is contoured to fit on the handle in a sleeve-like manner. The bracket body is pivoted to the primary appliance by a pivot pin which also pivotally connects the handle to the primary appliance. The bracket has a pocket which slidably receives and supports one end of the accessory appliance. Means are provided on the bracket for releasably attaching the accessory appliance to the bracket. This attachment means is in the form of resilient snap action detents which engage recessed body portions of the accessory appliance. The bracket holds the accessory appliance in a close parallel relationship to the handle and provides for the convenient removal of the accessory appliance from such held condition and replacement of the accessory appliance in such held condition.

Claims

1. In combination, a vacuum cleaner having an elongate handle, an elongate accessory cleaner and a bracket, said bracket being adapted for removable mounting on the handle, said bracket including means for securely holding the accessory cleaner proximate the handle, said holding means providing for convenient removal of the accessory cleaner from such held condition and replacement of the accessory cleaner in such held condition, said bracket providing a rigid body portion contoured to the handle and mountable as a sleeve on the handle.

2. The combination of claim 1, wherein said holding means includes a pocket which slidably receives a portion of the accessory cleaner and securely supports the accessory cleaner on the handle for movement therewith.

3. The combination of claim 1, wherein said holding means includes a pocket which slidably receives one end of the accessory cleaner and supports the accessory cleaner, and wherein said bracket and accessory cleaner have cooperating means for holding the accessory cleaner in a close parallel relationship to the handle.

4. The combination of claim 3, wherein said cooperating means provides for a releasable attachment of the accessory cleaner to said bracket.

5. The combination of claim 4, wherein said cooperating means includes resilient members on said bracket which engage with recessed body portions of the accessory cleaner to form a snap-fit attachment of the accessory to the bracket.

6. The combination of claim 1, wherein the handle and said bracket body have complementary tapered widths, said bracket body being removably mounted on the handle with a slip-on engagement.

7. The combination of claim 6, wherein the handle is pivoted to a body portion of the vacuum cleaner by a removable pivot pin, said bracket body having a portion in hinging engagement with said pivot pin.

8. A bracket for securely holding a portative accessory appliance on a primary appliance and for convenient removal from and replacement in such held condition, comprising a bracket body adapted to be removably mounted on an elongate handle of the primary appliance, said bracket body having a rigid pocket for slidably receiving and supporting an end portion of the accessory appliance, and snap action detents on said bracket body which receive and releasably retain the accessory appliance in such held condition, said bracket body being contoured to fit on said primary appliance handle in a sleeve-like manner.

9. A bracket according to claim 8, wherein said snap action detents are resilient rib members which engage recessed body portions of the accessory appliance to maintain the accessory appliance with said bracket and handle.

10. In combination, a primary floor care appliance having an elongate handle, an elongate portable accessory appliance and a bracket, said bracket having a body part in the nature of a sleeve contoured to be removably mounted on the handle, said bracket body having means for securely holding the accessory appliance in a proximate parallel relationship to the handle, said holding means providing for convenient removal of the accessory appliance from said bracket and replacement of the accessory appliance to said bracket.

11. The combination of claim 10, wherein said bracket is removably mounted on the handle with a sliding engagement, and wherein said holding means includes an open-top receptable for slidably receiving one end of the accessory appliance, said accessory appliance and bracket having cooperating means for releasably attaching the accessory appliance to said bracket.

12. In combination, a vacuum cleaner having an elongated handle, an elongated accessory cleaner, and an elongated substantially rigid bracket, said bracket being adapted for removably mounting directly on said handle independently of any other component of the vacuum cleaner and in a fixed position substantially aligned with said handle for support by said handle and for movement with said handle independently of any other component of the vacuum cleaner, said bracket including means for securely holding an accessory cleaner proximate the handle in a fixed position substantially aligned with said handle, said holding means providing for convenient removal of the accessory cleaner from such held position and replacement of the accessory cleaner in such held position.

13. The combination of claim 12 wherein said holding means includes a pocket which slidably receives a portion of the accessory cleaner and securely supports the accessory cleaner on the handle for movement therewith.

14. In the combination of claim 13 snap action detents on said bracket releasably retaining said accessory cleaner in said fixed position aligned with that handle.