Support tray for disposable filter bag
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1. In a vacuum cleaner having a housing enclosing a dirt collecting compartment, and a motor blower unit associated with said housing for producing a vacuum therein, said housing being formed with an access opening communicating with said compartment the improvement comprising,a tray insertable into said compartment through said access opening, including:
- a front wall complemental in size and shape to that of said access opening, said front wall including means defining an inlet opening into said compartment for accommodating a dirt collecting nozzle,sidewalls and a bottom wall each joined at one extremity to said tray front wall and each extending from said front wall to a free extremity, andretaining means on said tray for sustaining a disposable dirt collecting bag on said bottom wall and between said sidewalls in operative registration with said inlet opening whereby modification of the shape of a filled dirt collecting bag sustained on said tray by said retaining means is unimpeded during withdrawal of said tray through said compartment access opening.
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Abstract
A disposable filter bag accommodating tray insertable through an opening in a vacuum cleaner includes a front wall closing the cleaner opening and features absence of a tray rear wall permitting rearrangement of bag shape during tray withdrawl to minimize bag rupture and easy bag disposal by simply inverting the tray.
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1. In a vacuum cleaner having a housing enclosing a dirt collecting compartment, and a motor blower unit associated with said housing for producing a vacuum therein, said housing being formed with an access opening communicating with said compartment the improvement comprising,
a tray insertable into said compartment through said access opening, including: -
a front wall complemental in size and shape to that of said access opening, said front wall including means defining an inlet opening into said compartment for accommodating a dirt collecting nozzle, sidewalls and a bottom wall each joined at one extremity to said tray front wall and each extending from said front wall to a free extremity, and retaining means on said tray for sustaining a disposable dirt collecting bag on said bottom wall and between said sidewalls in operative registration with said inlet opening whereby modification of the shape of a filled dirt collecting bag sustained on said tray by said retaining means is unimpeded during withdrawal of said tray through said compartment access opening. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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