Vacuum cleaner having a vacuum hose holder

• US 4,697,299 A
• Filed: 10/27/1986
• Issued: 10/06/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Miele & CIE KG
• Original Assignee: Miele & CIE KG
• Inventors: Brinkhoff, Helmut, Gloning, Gunter, Steinkotter, Heinz-Gunter
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US06/923,664
• Time in Patent Office: 344 Days
• Field of Search: 15/327 C, 15/339, 15/323, 15/327 F
• US Class Current: 15/323
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/362 of the horizontal type, e.g. canister or sledge type
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0045 specially adapted for holding the suction tube

Abstract

There is provided a vacuum cleaner, particularly a floor vacuum cleaner with a rack or holder for the vacuum hose pipe, the rack is a two-part unit consisting of a separate pipe holder which can be slid onto the pipe extension of a vacuum hose and a mount for the pipe holder assembled on the vacuum cleaner housing. The arrangement and the configuration of the vacuum hose rack are such that the vacuum hose pipe can be secured onto the side of the vacuum cleaner housing.

Claims

1. In a vacuum cleaner, such as a floor vacuum cleaner having a housing, a carrying handle, a vacuum hose, a vacuum hose pipe, and a vacuum hose pipe rack mounted on the cleaner housing, the improvement comprising said vacuum hose pipe rack being formed in a two-part structure, consisting of a pipe holder adapted to slide onto the vacuum hose pipe and a mount on the vacuum cleaner housing for the pipe holder.

2. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the vacuum hose pipe is detachably stored on the side of the vacuum cleaner housing and said pipe holder is mounted on the vacuum hose pipe to be pivotable and height adjustable.

3. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 2, wherein the pipe holder connected to the mount on the vacuum cleaner housing so as to be detachable, comprises a clamping and fastening segment which permits in and out movement, and a pivoted element connected therewith.

4. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 3, wherein the pipe holder is connected to the vacuum hose pipe by said pivoted element, and the clamping and fastening segment is connected with the pivoted element so that it can be swung out from its position of rest parallel to the axis of the vacuum hose pipe into a position perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vacuum hose pipe.

5. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 4, wherein said clamping and fastening segment of the pipe holder is formed integrally as a one-piece unit with the pivoted element.

6. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 5, wherein said clamping and fastening segment comprises a vacuum hose pipe collet in a half-shell configuration matching the diameter of the vacuum hose pipe with fasteners molded onto a first end thereof perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the collet which interconnect with the mount on the vacuum cleaner housing, and a plug-in pipe socket bearing the pivoted element at a second end of said clamping and fastening segment.

7. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 6, wherein said plug-in pipe socket is articulated and provided with two plug-in sockets for the vacuum hose pipe, one of said plug-in sockets being arranged as an extension of the longitudinal axis of the clamping and fastening segment and the other being perpendicular to the first plug-in socket and mounted inside a common aperture in the plug-in pipe socket accommodating both orifices.

8. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 7, wherein said common aperture is provided with molded detent cams.

9. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 8, wherein said pipe holder is held onto the vacuum hose pipe by means of contact friction.

10. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 9, wherein said pipe holder is constructed as a carrying handle for the vacuum hose pipe which mates with the vacuum hose and the floor nozzle of the vacuum cleaner.

11. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 5, wherein the fasteners on the clamping and fastening segment of the pipe holder are designed as elastic springs.

12. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 4, wherein the vacuum cleaner carrying handle is mounted at the front end of the vacuum cleaner and the vacuum hose pipe rack mount is provided at the point where the carrying handle joins the vacuum cleaner housing so that the swing-mounted clamping and fastening segment of the pipe handle spans the gap between the mount and the long side of the vacuum cleaner housing in such a way that the pipe holder connects laterally to the cleaner housing.

13. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the mount on the vacuum cleaner housing for the pipe holder is mounted in the cradle of the carrying handle of the vacuum cleaner.

14. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 13, wherein said mount forms a fork-shaped enclosure for the carrying handle of the vacuum cleaner and is provided on its upper side with plug-in sockets for the pipe holder.

15. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the vacuum hose pipe rack is made of plastic.