Vacuum cleaner nozzle

• US 5,497,532 A
• Filed: 02/01/1994
• Issued: 03/12/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Wessel-Werk GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Wessel-Werk GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Glatz, Dietmar
• Primary Examiner(s): Scherbel, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Till, Terrence R.
• Application Number:
  US08/190,339
• Time in Patent Office: 770 Days
• Field of Search: 15/393, 15/396, 15/397, 15/398, 15/401, 15/415.1
• US Class Current: 15/401
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/02 Nozzles suction nozzles for fluid transport B65G51/00
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/06 with fixed, e.g. adjustably fixed brushes or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0613 with means specially adapted for picking up threads, hair or the like, e.g. brushes, combs, lint pickers or bristles pads
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0626 Rigidly anchored lips, e.g. nozzles adapted for picking up liquids

Abstract

The vacuum cleaner nozzle of the invention is provided with a nozzle body equipped with a suction pipe connecting piece and with a bottom plate which closes off the nozzle body towards the bottom, whereby at least one flow channel which is open towards the bottom and lets out into a central suction channel connected to the pipe connecting piece is located in the bottom plate. The flow channel is here double-parabolic in profile, meaning that it is parabolic in its cross section as well as in its longitudinal section extending perpendicularly to the bottom plate in relation to the longitudinal axis of the flow channel. The cross-section increases in this case from the bottom of the flow channel in the direction of the floor and from the end of the flow channel away from the suction channel in the direction of said suction channel. Thanks to this configuration of the suction channel, even distribution of the suction capacity is achieved over the entire width of the vacuum cleaner nozzle.

Claims

1. Vacuum cleaner nozzle comprising:

a nozzle body, said nozzle body having;

at least one edge,

a bottom side,

a nozzle, said nozzle having a nozzle bottom,

a suction pipe connecting piece to connect a suction pipe to said nozzle body, and

a bottom plate, said bottom plate closing off said nozzle bottom towards said bottom side, said bottom plate having at least one flow channel, said flow channel having a bottom directed and opening toward a floor to be cleaned, said flow channel further having a longitudinal axis and a longitudinal cross section, said flow channel further having a second cross section perpendicular to said longitudinal axis, said flow channel further open towards said bottom side, said flow channel leading into a common suction channel connected to said suction pipe connecting piece, said flow channel further having an end on said longitudinal axis away from said suction channel, wherein at least two of said flow channels are placed symmetrically in relation to said suction channel, said flow channels further being substantially parallel to said edge of said nozzle body, said second cross section of said flow channels further being parabolic in shape whereby said second cross-section increases toward said suction channel from said end, said longitudinal cross section of said flow channels being parabolic in shape, said longitudinal cross section extending substantially at a perpendicular to said bottom plate along said longitudinal axis of said flow channels whereby said longitudinal cross-section increases from said bottom of said flow channel towards the floor and from said end of said flow channel towards said suction channel.

2. Vacuum cleaner nozzle as in claim 1, wherein said flow channels are parabolic also in a longitudinal section parallel to a plane along said bottom plate, whereby the cross-section increases from said end of said flow channel toward the direction of said suction channel.

3. Vacuum cleaner nozzle as in claim 1, characterized in that said suction channel is located centrally on said nozzle body.

4. Vacuum cleaner nozzle as in claim 1, wherein said flow channels are open in an axial direction.

5. Vacuum cleaner nozzle as in claim 1, wherein said flow channels further have a forward edge and a rear edge each of which is located on a different side of said longitudinal axis, at least one of said edges is made at least in part as a flow edge to form a forward flow channel edge and a rear flow channel edge.

6. Vacuum cleaner nozzle as in claim 5, said flow edge are formed such that a surface area in front of at least one of said flow channel edges is inclined at least slightly in relation to a plane along said bottom plate so that said flow channel edge is given a wedge-shaped profile.

7. Vacuum cleaner nozzle as in claim 1, wherein at least one of said flow channels has a sealing element surrounding at least part of said flow channel.

8. Vacuum cleaner nozzle as in claim 7, wherein said sealing element is a sealing lip, said sealing lip is made of an elastomer material.