Multi-purpose household appliance particularly for cleaning floors, carpets, laid carpetings, and the like

• US 4,696,074 A
• Filed: 11/21/1985
• Issued: 09/29/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Simac SPA - Macchine Alimentari
• Original Assignee: Simac SPA - Macchine Alimentari
• Inventors: Cavalli, Alfredo
• Primary Examiner(s): Feldbaum, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US06/799,772
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 15/321, 15/322, 15/320, 15/353
• US Class Current: 15/321
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/34 Machines for treating carpets in position by liquid, foam, or vapour, e.g. by steam
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4016 specially adapted for collecting fluids
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4083 Liquid supply reservoirs; Preparation of the agents, e.g. mixing devices
• CPC Class Codes: F22B 1/28 in boilers heated electrically superheating using an electrical heat source independent from heat supply of the steam boiler F22G1/165

Abstract

A household appliance for cleaning generic surfaces comprises a wheel mounted working head incorporating a steam generator and an air liquid part in communication with a suction conduit. This household appliance is particularly useful for cleaning floors, carpets, and the like.

Claims

1. A household appliance for cleaning substantially flat surfaces such as floors, carpets and the like comprising a working head, a handle connected to said working head, a steam generator mounted in said working head in communication with a water supply conduit and a vacuum chamber having an air-liquid suction port located in said working head in communication with a vacuum conduit comprising a portion of said handle, said steam generator being comprised of two superimposed metal plates having electrical heating means incorporated in at least one of said plates, a vaporizing chamber disposed in one of said plates in communication with said water supply conduit, steam passages located between said plates in communication with said vaporizing chamber and a plurality of holes extending through the other of said plates in communication with said steam passages for dispensing steam outwardly of said head adjacent said suction port.