Domestic electrical vacuum cleaner with suction tube holder

• US 5,142,731 A
• Filed: 08/10/1990
• Issued: 09/01/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Rowenta-Werke GmbH (SEB SA)
• Original Assignee: Rowenta-Werke GmbH (SEB SA)
• Inventors: Resch, Gerald
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US07/565,350
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: 15/323, 15/339
• US Class Current: 15/339
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0045 specially adapted for holding the suction tube

Abstract

The invention relates to a vacuum cleaner with a suction tube nozzle unit, consisting of suction hose, handle, suction tube and suction nozzle, the suction nozzle unit being releasably connected to the vacuum cleaner housing by a coupling device.

Claims

1. A domestic electrical vacuum cleaner, comprising:

an appliance housing;

a suction hose releasably secured to the housing;

a suction tube and a suction nozzle arranged on the suction hose; and

coupling means for connecting at least one of the suction tube and the suction nozzle to the appliance housing, the coupling means (1) including two adjacent spaced longitudinal L-shaped sections (2,

     3), each L-shaped section having a web (4,

     5) and a flange (6,

     7) which are of unequal length, the flange (6,

     7) being arranged at one end of the webs (4,

     5) of the L-shaped sections (2,

     3) being spaced and fixedly secured to one of the suction tube or the suction nozzle at ends remote from the flanges (6,

     7) of the L-shaped sections, the coupling means further including two L-shaped retaining members (11,

     12) with legs of unequal length and with opposing flanges (13,

     14) formed on the appliance housing (10) at a spacing from one another, the spacing between the opposing flanges (13,

     14) being at least equal to the spacing of the webs (4,

     5) of the L-shaped sections (2,

     6), the opposing flanges (13,

     14) being engageable behind the flanges (6,

     7) of the L-shaped sections (2,

     3) in a coupling position.

2. A domestic electrical vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the flanges (6, 7) are shorter than the webs (4, 5), at least one of the flanges (6, 7) and of the members (11, 12) having contact surfaces shaped so as to facilitate sliding contact between the flanges (6, 7) and the members (11, 12).

3. A domestic electrical vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, and further comprising at least one compression spring (15) arranged between the webs (4, 5).

4. A domestic electrical vacuum cleaner according to claim 3, wherein the at least one spring (15) is a spring bar (16) having a length which is greater than the spacing of the webs (4, 5), the spring bar (16) and the webs (4, 5) being fixedly connected to one another so that the webs (4, 5) and the spring bar (16) enclose angles which are not equal to a right angle.

5. A domestic electrical vacuum cleaner according to claim 4, wherein the L-shaped sections (2, 3) are part of a collar-shaped tube section (17) which is connectable to the suction tube (18).

6. A domestic electrical vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the coupling means (1) is fixedly connected to the suction nozzle (19).

7. A domestic electrical vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein a contact breaker point (22) is provided in the region of the retaining members (11, 12).

8. A domestic electrical vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the L-shaped sections (2, 3) are longitudinally inclined relative to one another in a V-shape, and an arcuate spring bar (20) is clamped between the webs (4, 5).

9. A domestic electrical vacuum cleaners according to claim 1, wherein the longitudinal L-shaped sections (2, 3) are parallel.