Vacuum cleaner

• US 3,170,184 A
• Filed: 06/30/1960
• Issued: 02/23/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ivar Jepson, Julius P. Wied
• Original Assignee: Ivar Jepson, Julius P. Wied
• Inventors: IVAR JEPSON, Wied, Julius P.
• Application Number:
  US04/039,865
• Time in Patent Office: 1,699 Days
• US Class Current: 15/323
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/22 with rotary fans
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/362 of the horizontal type, e.g. canister or sledge type
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/00 Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2842 Suction motors or blowers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2857 User input or output elements for control, e.g. buttons, switches or displays
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2868 Arrangements for power supply of vacuum cleaners or the accessories thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2889 Safety or protection devices or systems, e.g. for prevention of motor over-heating or for protection of the user

Claims

1. IN A SUCTION CLEANER THE COMBINATION OF A HOUSING, SPACED MEANS FOR SUPPORTING SAID HOUSING, SWITCH MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID HOUSING COMPRISING RELATIVELY MOVABLE CONTACTS, A SWITCH ACTUATING MEMBER PROJECTING FROM THE BOTTOM OF SAID HOUSING AND OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO ACTUATE SAID CONTACTS WHEN MOVED TOWARD THE BOTTOM OF SAID HOUSING, SPRING MEANS NORMALLY BIASING SAID SWITCH ACTUATING MEMBER AWAY FROM THE BOTTOM OF SAID HOUSING, MOTOR DRIVEN FAN MEANS SUPPORTED BY SAID HOUSING, THE CENTER OF GRAVITY OF SAID SUCTION CLEANER WITH RESPECT TO SAID SPACED MEANS BEING SUCH AS TO CAUSE UNTIL SAID SWITCH PIVOT ABOUT THE AXIS OF SAID SPACED MEANS UNTIL SAID SWITCH ACTUATING MEMBER ENGAGES THE SURFACE SUPPORTING SAID CLEANER, WHEREBY SAID CONTACTS ARE ACTUATED BY APPLYING A FORCE TO THE TOP OF SAID HOUSING DIRECTLY ABOVE SAID SWITCH ACTUATING MEMBER OF SUFFICIENT MAGNITUDE MOMENTARILY TO COMPRESS SAID SPRING.

7. A SUCTION CLEANER COMPRISING A PANLIKE HOUSING HAVING A DIAMETER SEVERAL TIMES THE DEPTH THEREOF, A COVER HINGED TO THE OPEN TOP OF AID HOUSING, A SEALING GASKET INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID COVER AND SAID HOUSING, A PAIR OF WHEELS FOR SUPPORTING SAID HOUSING DISPOSED AT DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED PORTIONS OF SAID HOUSING, ELECTRIC MOTOR MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID HOUSING, A POWER CORD CONNECTED TO SAID MOTOR MEANS AND EXTENDING FROM SAID HOUSING, A CARRYING HANDLE CONNECTED TO SAID COVER AND PROJECTING FROM THE PERIPHERY THEREOF, A SUPPORTING STAND PROJECTING FROM SAID HOUSING AT A POINT DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE SAID HANDLE, SAID HANDLE AND AT LEAST A PORTION OF SAID STAND PROVIDING A CORD SUPPORT FOR SAID POWER CORD.