Waste recuperating electrical appliance with tubular filter

• US 6,536,075 B1
• Filed: 09/29/2000
• Issued: 03/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SEB SA
• Original Assignee: SEB SA
• Inventors: Bonnet, Jacques, Saude, Jose
• Primary Examiner(s): Snider, Theresa T.
• Application Number:
  US09/647,299
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: 153/44, 153/47, 153/50, 153/52, 153/98
• US Class Current: 15/347
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/24 Hand-supported suction cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 7/00 Suction cleaners adapted for additional purposes suction devices for removing ash F23J1/02; Tables with suction openings for cleaning purposes; Containers for cleaning articles by suction; Suction cleaners adapted to cleaning of brushes; Suction cleaners adapted to taking-up liquids
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 7/009 Details of suction cleaner tools for additional purposes
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1409 Rigid filtering receptacles dust collecting receptacles for cyclones A47L9/1683
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1427 Means for mounting or attaching bags or filtering receptacles in suction cleaners; Adapters
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1454 Self-sealing closures, e.g. valves

Abstract

A waste recuperating electrical apparatus (13) composed of a suction device that includes in particular an electric motor (20) and a suction turbine (22), a suction aperture (16a), and a tubular filter (1) forming a waste receptacle. The apparatus (13) further has a housing (14) arranged between the suction aperture (16a) and the suction turbine (22) with both of which it communicates on either side through ducts (16b) and the tubular filter (1) is arranged in the housing (14) such that one of its end orifices (6) is sealed and the opposite end orifice (4) is directly connected to the suction nozzle duct (16b). The filter housing has elements maintaining (3) the filter spaced from the filter (1) housing (14) inner wall so as to increase the volume around the duct enclosing the filter periphery in the suction turbine direction.

Claims

1. An electrical waste recovering appliance (13, 40), comprising a suction device composed of an electric motor (20, 60) and of a suction turbine (22, 62) a suction mouthpiece (16a, 56), a tubular filter (1, 41) constituting a waste material receptacle, a housing (14, 54) having an interior wall which encloses a space that is interposed between the suction mouthpiece (16a, 56) and the suction turbine (22, 62), a first conduit establishing communication between the suction mouthpiece and the space, and a second conduit establishing communication between the suction turbine and the space, wherein the tubular filter (1, 41) has first and second opposed end orifices that are both open to permit passage of waste, the tubular filter is held in the space in such a manner that the first end orifice allows waste to pass from the first conduit via the first end orifice into the tubular filter, and the appliance further comprises a blocking member that is movable relative to the housing between a closed position for blocking the second end orifice and an open position to permit waste to be removed from the tubular filter via the second end orifice.

2. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 1, further comprising means (3, 7, 17, 43) for maintaining the tubular filter spaced from the interior wall of the housing.

3. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 2, wherein the means (3, 7, 17, 43) for maintaining the tubular filter spaced from the interior wall of the housing are fixed to the housing (14, 54).

4. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 2, wherein the means (3, 7, 17, 43) for maintaining the tubular filter spaced from the interior wall (14, 54) of the housing are fixed to the tubular filter (1, 41).

5. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 1, wherein the tubular filter (1, 41) has at least one joint (10, 34, 35, 47, 50) providing a pneumatic seal at one of its orifices (4, 6, 44, 46).

6. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 1, wherein the tubular filter (1, 41) has a rigid zone (8, 32) impermeable to air, at each orifices.

7. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 1, wherein the tubular filter (1, 41) has a rigid mechanical reinforcing structure (9, 27) for mechanical reinforcement along its length.

8. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 1, wherein the blocking member comprises a trap door (18, 58).

9. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 8, wherein the trap door (18, 58) is fixed to the housing (14, 54) thus closing said housing, said trap door (18, 58) opening toward the outside of the housing.

10. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 8, wherein the trap door (18, 58) is fixed to the tubular filter (1, 41).

11. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 1, wherein the tubular filter (1, 41) has a shutter (32), situated at the first end orifice (4, 44) for initial blocking of the first end orifice (4, 44), capable of being retracted by contact with an exterior object or by the low pressure created by the rotation of the suction turbine (22, 62), and returning to its initial blocking position when the interaction with the exterior object ceases or when the turbine (22, 62) is stopped.

12. The electrical waste recovering appliance according to claim 1, further comprising a sealing joint (10, 35, 50) disposed adjacent the second orifice end of the tubular filter, said joint having a groove (12b) capable of cooperating, in view of its positioning and its maintenance, with at least one positioning bulge (36) arranged in an interior part of the housing (14, 54).