Floor nozzle for vacuum cleaner

• US 4,977,640 A
• Filed: 07/18/1989
• Issued: 12/18/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hirano, Akihiro, Hayashi, Seizo
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, Chris K.
• Application Number:
  US07/381,280
• Time in Patent Office: 518 Days
• Field of Search: 15/388, 15/389, 15/390, 15/339, 15/340.3, 15/340.4, 15/340.2
• US Class Current: 15/339
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0411 driven by electric motor
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2847 Surface treating elements
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2863 Control elements activated by pivoting movement of the upright vacuum cleaner handle
• 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

Abstract

A floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner which includes a housing, and an agitator, a driving motor for the agitator, and a switch for changing over rotating directions of the motor which are accommodated in the housing, and a coupling pipe connected to the housing so as to be displaceable at least back and fourth, and communicated with a suction passage to a vacuum cleaner main body, and an associating device for transmitting the back and forth displacement of the coupling pipe to the switch. The associating device is adapted to be held at two stabilized positions with respect to a boundary dead point and provided with a movable member arranged to be displaced through quick action, to one of the stabilized positions after passing through the dead point, with the movable member being associated with the switch.

Claims

1. A floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner which comprises a housing, and an agitator, a driving motor for the agitator, and a switch for changing over rotating directions of said motor which are accommodated in said housing, a coupling pipe connected to said housing so as to be displaceable at least back and forth, and communicated with a suction passage to a vacuum cleaner main body, and an associating means for transmitting the back and forth displacement of said coupling pipe to said switch, said associating means being adapted to be held at two stabilized positions with respect to a boundary dead point and provided with a movable member arranged to be displaced, through quick action, to one of the stabilized positions after passing through said dead point, said movable member being associated with said switch.

2. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 1, wherein rotating direction of said agitator is set so as to be in a forward direction with respect to advancing or retreating function of the floor nozzle.

3. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 1, wherein rotating direction of said agitator is set so as to be in an opposite direction with respect to advancing or retreating function of the floor nozzle.

4. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said movable member for said associating means is constituted by a plate spring which is held by a holding means at intervals, with a portion of the plate spring between holding points thereof being resiliently curved.

5. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 4, wherein an actuator for said switch is associated with an intermediate point of curvature of said movable member constituted by a plate spring.

6. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 4, wherein one end of said plate spring is further extended from the holding point to form an acting piece, with which a back and forth displacing member of said coupling pipe is associated.

7. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 1, wherein an actuator for said switch is associated with an intermediate point of curvature of said movable member constituted by a plate spring.

8. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 1, wherein one end of said movable member constituted by a plate spring is further extended from the holding point to form an acting piece, with which a back and forth displacing member of said coupling pipe is associated.

9. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 1, wherein one end of said coupling pipe is pivotally connected to the housing of the floor nozzle for back and forth rocking motion.

10. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 9, wherein ring members pivotally supported at upper portions thereof for back and forth rocking motion are provided in said housing of the floor nozzle, with support pipes laterally projecting outwardly from a forward end of said coupling pipe being rotatably supported by said ring members.

11. A floor nozzle as claimed in claim 1, wherein ring members pivotally supported at upper portions thereof for back and forth rocking motion are provided in said housing of the floor nozzle, with support pipes laterally projecting outwardly from a forward end of said coupling pipe being rotatably supported by said ring members.