Vacuum cleaner tool storage

• US 5,247,719 A
• Filed: 05/18/1992
• Issued: 09/28/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Healthy Gain Investments Limited
• Original Assignee: Hoover Company (Whirlpool Corporation)
• Inventors: Maurer, Edgar A., Shorthill, Robert C., Wareham, Richard A.
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US07/885,930
• Time in Patent Office: 498 Days
• Field of Search: 15/323, 15/331
• US Class Current: 15/323
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0009 Storing devices winding devices for electric cables A47L9/26; Supports, stands or holders
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0027 specially adapted for holding the suction cleaning tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0036 specially adapted for holding the suction hose
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0045 specially adapted for holding the suction tube

Abstract

A tool storage arrangement is provided for a hard bag upright cleaner by forming a covered compartment in the hard bag portion and tool mounting means in the compartment.

Claims

1. A tool storage arrangement for a hard bag cleaner including;

a) a handle extending upwardly from the top of a hard bag cleaner,

b) said tool storage arrangement being disposed at least partially below said top of said hard bag cleaner adjacent said handle in a closed compartment in said hard bag cleaner,

c) said closed compartment mounting cleaning tools therein,

d) said tool storage arrangement including a movable door opening to expose a portion of said hard bag cleaner,

e) said hard bag including a top surface,

f) said movable door including a top surface, and

g) said movable door top surface, in closed position, being generally aligned with said hard bag top surface.

2. A tool storage arrangement for a hard bag cleaner including;

a) a handle extending upwardly from the top of a hard bag cleaner,

b) said tool storage arrangement being disposed at least partially below said top of said hard bag cleaner adjacent said handle in a closed compartment in said hard bag cleaner,

c) said close compartment mounting cleaning tools therein,

d) said tool storage arrangement including a movable door opening to expose a portion of said hard bag cleaner,

e) said hard bag includes side surfaces,

f) said movable door including side surfaces, and

g) at least one of said movable door side surfaces being generally aligned with at least one of said hard bag side surfaces when said movable door is closed.

3. A tool storage arrangement for a hard bag cleaner including;

a) an upwardly extending hard bag portion,

b) a suction nozzle attached to said hard bag portion adjacent its bottom,

c) a handle extending upwardly from the top of said hard bag portion,

d) said tool storage arrangement being disposed below said top of said hard bag portion adjacent said handle in a closed compartment in said hard bag cleaner,

e) said closed compartment including a tool door,

f) said tool door being movable to expose said closed compartment, and

g) said movable door being limited in its movement by a strap connection.

4. A tool storage arrangement for a hard bag cleaner including;

a) an upwardly extending hard bag portion,

b) a suction nozzle attached to said hard bag portion adjacent its bottom,

c) a handle extending upwardly from the top of said hard bag portion,

d) said tool storage arrangement being disposed below said top of said hard bag portion adjacent said handle in a closed compartment in said hard bag cleaner,

e) said closed compartment including a tool door,

f) said tool door being hinged to said hard bag portion,

g) tools disposed in said closed compartment,

h) said hard bag cleaner including a bag lid, and

i) said tool storage arrangement being disposed at least partly in said bag lid.

5. A tool storage arrangement for a hard bag cleaner including;

a) a handle extending upwardly from the top of a hard bag cleaner,

b) said tool storage arrangement being disposed at least partially below said top of said hard bag cleaner adjacent said handle in a closed compartment in said hard bag cleaner,

c) said closed compartment mounting cleaning tools therein, said cleaning tools being disposed in said closed compartment in an upper position immediately below said top,

d) said tool storage arrangement including a movable door opening to expose a portion of said hard bag cleaner,

e) said handle of said hard bag cleaner extending partly within a hard bag of said hard bag cleaner, and

f) at least one of said tools, in said upper position, disposed to extend in an overlapping vertical direction with at least a portion of said inwardly extending handle.

6. A tool storage arrangement for a hard bag cleaner including;

a) a handle extending upwardly from a bag of said hard bag cleaner,

b) said tool storage arrangement being disposed below said top of said hard bag cleaner in a closed compartment in said hard bag cleaner,

c) said tool storage arrangement mounting cleaning tools therein,

d) said tool storage arrangement including a movable door,

e) said hard bag cleaner including a bag lid, and

f) said tools mounted in said movable door, said movable door covering a cavity in said bag lid receiving jutting portions of said tools.

7. A tool storage arrangement for a hard bag cleaner including;

a) a handle extending upwardly from the top of said hard bag cleaner,

b) said tool storage arrangement being disposed below said top of said hard bag cleaner in a closed compartment in said hard bag cleaner,

c) said tools of said tool storage arrangement include a crevice tool member and at least one nozzle member,

d) said crevice tool member disposed adjacent to said at least one nozzle member when in said arrangement, and

e) said crevice tool also disposed in a well extending below a compartment mounting the remainder of said tools of said tool storage arrangement.

8. A tool storage arrangement for a cleaner having a hard housing portion including;

a) said hard housing portion extending upwardly,

b) a suction nozzle attached to said hard housing portion adjacent its bottom,

c) a handle extending upwardly from the top of said hard housing portion,

d) said hard housing portion having at least one face having a generally vertical, continuous planar extent from top to bottom,

e) said tool storage arrangement being disposed below said top of said hard housing portion adjacent said handle in a closed compartment in said hard housing portion cleaner,

f) said closed compartment being wholly sequestered from the remainder of a dirt receiving cavity formed by said hard housing portion by a generally vertically extending partition forming a wholly inwardly displaced inside wall of said closed compartment, wholly inwardly displaced from said generally vertical planar extent,

g) said closed compartment including a tool door,

h) said tool door being hinged to said hard housing portion on a horizontal axis spaced substantially above said suction nozzle to extend, in closed position, in a facing relationship to said vertically extending partition,

i) tools disposed in said closed compartment between said closed tool door and said vertically extending partition,

j) said tool door having at least a front, a top edge wall and side edge walls,

k) said top edge wall and said side edge walls, when said door is closed, extending at least partly inwardly beyond said hard housing portion face having a generally vertical continuous planar extent so that the said edge walls are substantially flush with the portions of the housing surface forming the opening closed by said door so that the entire periphery of said door is substantially flush, with said housing and

l) said tool swinging downwardly on said horizontal axis to an open position whereby said tools are readily accessible from the front of said compartment of said hard housing portion.

9. The tool storage arrangement for a hard housing cleaner as set out in claim 8 wherein;

a) said movable door is pivoted for movement relative to said hard housing portion of said hard housing cleaner by cam angled pivot lugs.

10. The tool storage arrangement for an upright vacuum cleaner as set out in claim 8 wherein;

a) said latch means is at the top and medially disposed relative to the width of said door.