Vacuum-cleaner floor head

• US 6,675,438 B2
• Filed: 01/02/2002
• Issued: 01/13/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Wessel-Werk GmbH
• Original Assignee: Wessel-Werke GmbH
• Inventors: Dilger, Horst, Kaffenberger, Dieter, Steudtner, Hans-Joachim
• Primary Examiner(s): Snider, Theresa T.
• Application Number:
  US10/039,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20020083552A1
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• Field of Search: 154/01, 154/02, 154/151, 154/20, 153/73, 152/45
• US Class Current: 15/420
• 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 9/0653 with mechanical actuation, e.g. using a lever

Abstract

A vacuum-cleaner floor head has a base plate formed with an elongated mouth through which air is aspirated, a frame vertically displaceable between a lower position and an upper position, and a plastic tube carried on the frame, engaging a floor underneath the head in the lower position, and clear of the floor in the upper position. The plastic tube is elastomerically compressible, surrounds the mouth, and is sufficiently firm to support the head off the floor without substantial deformation during normal back and forth stroking of the head on the floor in the lower position of the frame. The plastic tube has at least to a front side of the mouth a profiled lower surface formed with a plurality of alternating ridges and hollows so that in the lower position the ridges engage the floor and air can be aspirated through the hollows between the floor and the strip.

Claims

1. A vacuum-cleaner floor head for dry vacuuming of a smooth floor, the head comprising:

a base plate formed with an elongated mouth through which air is aspirated;

a frame vertically displaceable between a lower position and an upper position; and

a plastic tube carried on the frame, engaging a floor underneath the head in the lower position, and clear of the floor in the upper position, the plastic tube being annularly continuous and elastomerically compressible, surrounding the mouth, and sufficiently firm to support the head off the floor without substantial deformation during normal back and forth stroking of the head on the floor in the lower position of the frame, the plastic tube having at least to a front side of the mouth a pro-filed lower surface formed with a plurality of alternating ridges and hollows, whereby in the lower position the ridges engage the floor and air can be aspirated through the hollows between the floor and the plastic tube.

2. The vacuum-cleaner floor head defined in claim 1 wherein the plastic tube is straight and extends parallel to the mouth at the front side thereof.