All in the head surface cleaning apparatus

• US 11,013,383 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2018
• Issued: 05/25/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
• Original Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
• Inventors: Conrad, Wayne Ernest
• Primary Examiner(s): Redding, David
• Application Number:
  US16/011,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20180353031A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,072 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/30 with driven dust-loosening tools, e.g. rotating brushes
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/32 with means for connecting a hose hose couplings for suction cleaners A47L9/24
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1608 Cyclonic chamber constructions
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1683 Dust collecting chambers; Dust collecting receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2878 Dual-powered vacuum cleaners, i.e. devices which can be operated with mains power supply or by batteries
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/325 for wheeled suction cleaners with steering handle
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 1/04 telescopic; extensible; sectional

Abstract

A surface cleaning apparatus comprises having a primary dirty air inlet and a drive handle drivingly connected to the surface cleaning head and comprising an above floor cleaning wand, a flexible hose and an auxiliary dirty air inlet, wherein the all in the head surface cleaning apparatus is useable in a floor cleaning mode in which the drive handle is drivingly connected to the surface cleaning head and air enters the all in the head surface cleaning apparatus via the primary dirty air inlet of the surface cleaning head and an above floor cleaning mode wherein the above floor cleaning wand is extended from a stored position and air enters the all in the head surface cleaning apparatus via the auxiliary dirty air inlet.

Claims

1. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising a surface cleaning head, the surface cleaning head comprising:

(a) a front end, a rear end, first and second laterally opposed sidewalls;

(b) a cyclone assembly comprising a carry handle, a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the carry handle having a hand grip portion, the cyclone chamber having a longitudinal cyclone axis, a cyclone assembly air inlet port and a cyclone assembly air outlet port, wherein the cyclone assembly is moveable from a cleaning position to a cyclone assembly removal position in which the cyclone assembly is solely supported by the surface cleaning head; and

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(c) a suction motor having a suction motor air inlet and a suction motor axis;

wherein, when the cyclone assembly is moved to the removal position, the hand grip portion is positioned spaced from the cyclone assembly in the absence of any reconfiguration of the carry handle by a user.

2. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1, wherein the cyclone assembly is laterally rotatably moveable from the cleaning position to the removal position.

3. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 2 wherein the cyclone assembly is pivotally moveable from the cleaning position to the removal position.

4. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 2 wherein the cyclone assembly has a lateral outward end and an opposed lateral inward end when the cyclone assembly is in the cleaning position and the lateral inward end moves upwardly to a location above the lateral outward end as the cyclone assembly is moved to the removal position.

5. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 4 wherein the lateral inward end of the cyclone assembly comprises an openable end of the cyclone assembly and the carry handle is provided on the openable end.

6. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the cyclone assembly is moveable vertically from the cleaning position to the removal position.

7. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the hand grip portion is spaced from the cyclone assembly when the cyclone assembly is in the cyclone assembly removal position.

8. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 7 wherein the carry handle is located at a lateral inward end of the cyclone assembly when the cyclone assembly is in the cleaning position.

9. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the surface cleaning head further comprises a platform moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a cleaning position and a cyclone assembly removal position and the cyclone assembly is removably mounted to the platform.

10. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 9 wherein the cyclone assembly is vertically removable from the platform when the platform is in the cyclone assembly removal position.

11. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a cyclone assembly lock actuatable by a foot operable lock release actuator, the cyclone assembly lock is moveable between a locked position in which the cyclone assembly is secured in the surface cleaning head and an unlocked position in which the cyclone assembly is moveable.

12. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the cyclone assembly further comprises a pre-motor filter.

13. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein, when the cyclone assembly is in the cleaning position, the cyclone assembly further comprises a pre-motor filter chamber, and the carry handle extends inwardly from a position laterally inward of an air inlet end of the pre-motor filter chamber.

14. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a cyclone assembly lock moveable between a locked position in which the cyclone assembly is secured in the surface cleaning head and an unlocked position in which the cyclone assembly is moveable, the lock comprising a moveable locking arm and a locking portion provided on the cyclone assembly.

15. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 14 wherein the locking arm is moved forwardly when the lock is moved to the unlocked position.

16. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 14 wherein the locking arm comprises a biasing member.

17. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a biasing member biasing the cyclone assembly away from the cleaning position.

18. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein the carry handle is mounted in a fixed position to the cyclone assembly.

19. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein when the cyclone assembly is in the cleaning position the cyclone assembly extends generally horizontally and, when the cyclone assembly is in the cyclone assembly removal position, the cyclone assembly extends generally vertically.

20. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 wherein when the cyclone assembly is in the cleaning position the hand grip portion is inaccessible by a user and, when the cyclone assembly is in the cyclone assembly removal position the hand grip portion is accessible by a user.

21. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising a surface cleaning head, the surface cleaning head comprising:

(a) a front end, a rear end, first and second laterally opposed sidewalls;

(b) a cyclone assembly comprising a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the cyclone chamber having a longitudinal cyclone axis, a cyclone assembly air inlet port and a cyclone assembly air outlet port, wherein the cyclone assembly is moveable from a cleaning position to a cyclone assembly removal position in which the cyclone assembly is supported by the surface cleaning head; and

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(c) a suction motor having a suction motor air inlet and a suction motor axis;

wherein the cyclone assembly has a lateral outward end and an opposed lateral inward end when the cyclone assembly is in the cleaning position and wherein the lateral inward end of the cyclone assembly comprises a carry handle and wherein the carry handle extends laterally away from the lateral inward end of the cyclone assembly when the cyclone assembly is in the cleaning position.

22. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 21 wherein the carry handle is mounted in a fixed position to the cyclone assembly.

23. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising a surface cleaning head, the surface cleaning head comprising:

(a) a front end, a rear end, first and second laterally opposed sidewalls;

(b) a cyclone assembly comprising a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the cyclone chamber having a longitudinal cyclone axis, a cyclone assembly air inlet port and a cyclone assembly air outlet port, wherein the cyclone assembly is moveable from a cleaning position to a cyclone assembly removal position; and

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(c) a suction motor having a suction motor air inlet and a suction motor axis;

wherein the cyclone assembly comprises at least one carry handle and a lower portion of the carry handle is recessed below an upper surface of the surface cleaning head when the cyclone assembly is in the in use position, wherein the cyclone assembly is moveable from the cleaning position to the cyclone assembly removal position while the handle remains in a fixed orientation with respect to the cyclone assembly.

24. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 23 wherein an upper portion of the carry handle is flush with a top surface of the surface cleaning head when the cyclone assembly is in the in use position.

25. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising a surface cleaning head, the surface cleaning head comprising:

(a) a front end, a rear end, first and second laterally opposed sidewalls;

(b) a cyclone assembly comprising a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the cyclone chamber having a longitudinal cyclone axis, a cyclone assembly air inlet port and a cyclone assembly air outlet port, wherein the cyclone assembly is moveable from a cleaning position to a cyclone assembly removal position in which the cyclone assembly is supported by the surface cleaning head; and

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(c) a suction motor having a suction motor air inlet and a suction motor axis;

wherein the cyclone assembly further comprises a carry handle and the carry handle comprises an open frame and the open frame seats around a clean air outlet when the cyclone assembly is in the cleaning position.

26. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 25 wherein the carry handle is mounted in a fixed position to the cyclone assembly.