Dust collector

• US 4,360,947 A
• Filed: 10/30/1980
• Issued: 11/30/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles Decosa, George Spector
• Original Assignee: Charles Decosa, George Spector
• Inventors: Spector, George, DeCosa, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US06/202,370
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 15/310, 15/311, 15/339, 15/347, 15/352, 15/353, 15/415 R, 15/323, 55/359, 55/428
• US Class Current: 15/323
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 7/0071 with containers for ash, soot, contaminant or harmful materials suction devices for removing ashes F23J1/02

Abstract

A bucket into which ashes and dust from a wood stove or fireplace is shoveled by a vacuum cleaner so as to prevent it blowing into the atmosphere, the bucket including a removable cover having a connection to a vacuum cleaner hose, for transferring the dust and ash from the bucket to the vacuum cleaner, and the invention, in one design thereof including a shovel connected by another hose to the bucket so that shoveled dust and ash is pulled directly therefrom into the bucket.

Claims

1. A dust collector, comprising in combination, a bucket, a cover fitted in a top opening of said bucket, an upwardly pivotable lid on said cover for closing a semi-circular hole in said cover, an upwardly extending spout on said cover for connection with a vacuum cleaner hose, and a flexible hose on a side of said bucket connnected to a scoop, whereby the inside of said scoop is in suction communication with the interior of said bucket.

2. The combination as set forth in claim 1, wherein said lid includes means for storage of said scoop on an underside thereof.