Vacuum cleaner

• US 5,329,666 A
• Filed: 06/15/1993
• Issued: 07/19/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Oreck Holdings LLC (Techtronic Industries Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: TRC Acquisition Corporation
• Inventors: Owens, Raymond D., Bartasevich, William E., Bowerman, Leonard E., Chumley, Eugene K., Waldo, Robert L., Caterinacci, John R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, Chris K.
• Application Number:
  US08/077,618
• Time in Patent Office: 399 Days
• Field of Search: 15/323, 15/344
• US Class Current: 15/323
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/26 with driven dust-loosening tools

Abstract

A hand-held corded vacuum cleaner having a housing with a motor compartment containing a motor mounted on partitions defining inlet, cooling and outlet chambers for efficient motor cooling by air which enters inlet and exits outlet vents in the inlet and outlet chambers, respectively. A dirt channel extends from a fan chamber having a fan mounted by being swaged on a motor shaft. A nozzle chamber is disposed at one end of the housing and a bag assembly is removably detached from the rear of the housing by means of a collar having a side hole through which a detent extends and which may be depressed to remove the bag assembly. The nozzle is in communication with the fan chamber and the fan pushes dirt through a dirt channel over the motor compartment into the bag of the bag assembly. The motor shaft has a pulley at the end thereof which is connected to a brush which is releasably retained in the nozzle compartment. A belt extends around the brush and the pulley. A door provides access to the belt and has a post which is coaxial with the motor shaft and extends into the immediate proximity of the end thereof to prevent the belt from meandering off the shaft. A well in the belly of the housing and a cooperating well defined between projections on the handle provide a receptacle for the line cord when it is wound around the housing and handle.

Claims

1. In a hand-held vacuum cleaner having a housing containing a motor, a power line cord for supplying electricity to said motor, the improvement for securing said line cord when said cleaner is not in use comprising a wall portion of said housing with a cylindrical surface extending longitudinally of said housing, a flat surface across said cylindrical surface defining opposing walls spaced longitudinally from each other to define a well for said line cord, and a second surface having spaced projections defining a second well positioned opposite to said first flat surface on said housing, said line cord being windable around said well and said second well.

2. In a hand-held vacuum cleaner having a housing containing a motor, a power line cord for supplying electricity for operating said motor, the improvement for securing said line cord when said cleaner is not in use comprising a wall portion of said housing with a cylindrical surface extending longitudinally of said housing, a flat surface across said cylindrical surface defining opposing walls spaced longitudinally from each other to define a well for said line cord, and further including a handle connected to said housing, said handle having spaced projections defining a second well opposite to said well on said housing, said line cord being windable around said well in said housing and said second well in said handle.