Recirculating type cleaner

• US 5,457,848 A
• Filed: 10/22/1993
• Issued: 10/17/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: MIWA Science Laboratory Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Cosmos Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Miwa, Hirohide
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US08/139,714
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• Field of Search: 15/319, 15/345, 15/346, 15/420
• US Class Current: 15/346
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/14 cleaning by blowing-off, also combined with suction cleaning

Abstract

A recirculating type cleaner having a dust collecting port including a suction port and an outlet in which downstream flow of a fan is recirculated, discharged through said outlet, and drawn into said suction port. Said dust collecting port means has an outer peripheral wall defining an outer boundary of said suction port. The outlet is located within the region of the suction port and has an orifice or opening so constricted as to discharge the downstream flow in the form of a jet and so oriented as to discharge the jet at an angle in the range of 90°±30° relative to a surface to be cleaned. The end surface of the boundary wall between the outlet and the suction port and/or the flange or a outer peripheral wall are formed with a plurality of minute channels.

Claims

1. A recirculating type cleaner comprising:

a dust collecting port means including a suction port and an outlet means in which downstream flow of a fan disposed at the rear of a dust collecting chamber is recirculated through a recirculating flow path to said outlet means, discharged through an outlet port in said outlet means, and drawn from said suction port into said dust collecting chamber through a suction flow path;

said dust collecting port means having an outer peripheral wall which defines an outer boundary of said suction port;

said outlet means being located within the region of said suction port and having an orifice constructed to discharge the downstream flow in the form of a jet and so oriented as to discharge the jet at an angle in the range of 90°

±

30°

relative to a surface to be cleaned; and

said outlet port and said suction port being separated from each other by a boundary wall having an end surface adjacent the surface to be cleaned, the end surface of said boundary wall being formed with a plurality of minute channels to communicate the outlet port with the suction port thereby to permit passage of air from the outlet port to the suction port.

3. A recirculating type cleaner according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the width of each of said channels is sized relative to the depth thereof so that a deformed portion of any laminar pliable object that may stick to the dust collecting port means is prevented from entering the channel.

2. A recirculating type cleaner comprising:

a dust collecting port means including a suction port and an outlet means in which downstream flow of a fan disposed at the rear of a dust collecting chamber is recirculated through a recirculating flow path to said outlet means, discharged through an outlet port in said outlet means, and drawn from said suction port into said dust collecting chamber through a suction flow path;

said dust collecting port means having an outer peripheral wall which defines an outer boundary of said suction port;

said outlet means being located within the region of said suction port and having an orifice or opening so constricted as to discharge the downstream flow in the form of a jet and so oriented as to discharge the jet at an angle in the range of 90°

±

30°

relative to the surface to be cleaned; and

said outer peripheral wall having an end surface adjacent the surface to be cleaned, an end face of said outer peripheral wall being formed with a plurality of minute channels to communicate the surrounding atmosphere with the suction port thereby to permit passage of air from the atmosphere to said suction port.