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Portable hand held vacuum cleaner

  • US 5,025,529 A
  • Filed: 09/17/1990
  • Issued: 06/25/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a portable hand held vacuum cleaner having a housing with a handle permitting a user to lift and operate said vacuum cleaner and a nozzle/debris container releasably secured to said housing, said housing and container having lower complementary releasable interlocking fasteners and said housing having a push-button activated releasable lock positioned along an upper part of said housing for interengaging a complementary shaped locking shoulder along an upper part of said nozzle/debris container, the improvement comprising an integral one-piece push-button lever lock having an elongated body with hook shoulder at one end for engaging the locking shoulder on said nozzle/debris container, the other end of said elongated body having a ball portion for cooperative pivotal engagement with a corresponding pivot section provided on said housing, said elongated body further being provided with a depending finger adjacent said ball portion for engaging a supporting surface on said housing to spring bias a push button extending from said elongated body on an opposite side from said depending finger through and opening in said housing and for simultaneously engaging the hook shoulder thereof in resilient and releasable locking engagement with the locking shoulder of said nozzle/debris container.

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