Vacuum cleaner having an integral tool holder
First Claim
1. In a vacuum cleaner having a housing, a tool holder for a plurality of vacuum cleaner tools, including wands and a nozzle, said holder comprising a flexible wall of said housing having recesses defining lands and depressions between said lands, said depressions defining compartments for releasably retaining said tools, one of said compartments having a first wall extending therein from one of said lands, said one compartment also having a second wall opposite to said first wall and having an edge, a member attached to said housing and disposed along said edge in overlapping relationship with said edge to define a lip over which said nozzle can snap into retained position between said first and second walls.
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Abstract
An upright vacuum cleaner which is convertible for floor cleaning and above the floor cleaning, has a housing mounted on a floor nozzle in which a vacuum is drawn. A hose extending from the housing is insertable into a conduit which leads into the floor nozzle for floor cleaning. The hose also receives tools for above the floor cleaning. These tools are removably held in a tool holder on the rear wall of the housing with recesses and lands in the wall which is flexible. The recess at one end of the wall is defined by a member which overlaps the wall to define a lip. A nozzle for above the floor cleaning snaps over the lip and is held in the compartment between the wall and the end of a land between the recesses with the mouth of the nozzle behind the lip and the open end of the nozzle opposite its mouth on a rib on the end of that land which catches the open end of the nozzle.
The flexible wall can readily be depressed so as to release the nozzle when it is to be used.
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6 Claims
- 1. In a vacuum cleaner having a housing, a tool holder for a plurality of vacuum cleaner tools, including wands and a nozzle, said holder comprising a flexible wall of said housing having recesses defining lands and depressions between said lands, said depressions defining compartments for releasably retaining said tools, one of said compartments having a first wall extending therein from one of said lands, said one compartment also having a second wall opposite to said first wall and having an edge, a member attached to said housing and disposed along said edge in overlapping relationship with said edge to define a lip over which said nozzle can snap into retained position between said first and second walls.
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