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Portable hand held vacuum cleaner

  • US 4,920,608 A
  • Filed: 08/08/1988
  • Issued: 05/01/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A portable hand held vacuum cleaner comprising a housing having a handle permitting a user to lift and operate said vacuum cleaner and a nozzle/debris container releasably secured to said housing, said housing having a motor, a blower driven by said motor and being in communication with said nozzle/debris container for forcibly drawing air and debris entrained in the air into the nozzle/debris container to deposit debris within said container while also exhausting air from the nozzle/debris container and then through exhaust openings in said housing to the atmosphere, said housing and said nozzle/debris container being releasably secured and also sealed to one another in the vicinity of complementary interfitting circumferential portions of the housing and nozzle/debris container, a combined outer circumferential compressible seal and inner filter for joint insertion or removal relative to the housing and nozzle/debris container, and said outer circumferential compressible seal being in compressible sealing engagement between said complementary interfitting circumferential portions while said inner filter extends substantially across the nozzle/debris container when said housing and nozzle/debris container are releasably secured to one another, in order to seal off from the atmosphere the air communication between the blower in the housing and nozzle/debris container while requiring air exhausted from the nozzle/debris container to pass through the inner filter.

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