Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Reeling device – With orbital wrapping guide
Reexamination Certificate
2001-01-17
2002-12-10
Walsh, Donald P. (Department: 3654)
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Reeling device
With orbital wrapping guide
24
Reexamination Certificate
active
06491249
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a device for winding a power cord of an upright vacuum cleaner, and more particularly to a device for winding the power cord, which is excellent in sanitation without directly touching the power cord by hands.
2. Description of the Related Art
An up-right vacuum cleaner generally sucks alien substances on a floor through a sucking hose and a sucking inlet.
The up-right vacuum cleaner is designed to clean at a point far from an electric outlet by a power cord. As shown in FIG.
5
through
FIG. 8
, a conventional power cord
30
is wound and stored into a rotary cord hanger
20
engaged on the point of forming a triangle shape with a couple of fixed cord hanger
11
equipped in a rear central lower part of a main body
10
.
The fixed cord hanger
11
is unified as a ┐-shape on the rear side of the main body
10
. The rotary cord hanger
20
is roughly formed as a ┐-shape and inserted into a hole
12
a
formed on an inserting section
12
of the main body
10
, while the rotary cord hanger
20
includes a slot
21
b
slotted at an angle of 90 degrees the inserting section
21
having a hook
21
a
for safely reaching to a hanging-sill
12
b
arranged and formed at the angle of 90 degrees within the inside of the wall.
Accordingly, the rotary cord hanger
20
is released downward by rotating the angle of 180 degrees to use the power cord
30
in the state of FIG.
5
and then plugged in the electric outlet for freely moving within the length of the power cord
30
.
At this time, the hook
21
a
is rotated at every 90-degree angle and safely reached by the hanging-sill
12
b
if the rotary cord hanger
20
is pivoted to left or right direction in the case of a rotation.
Then the power cord
30
is gripped to hang on the fixed cord hanger
11
and the rotary cord hanger
20
and fastened to the fixed cord hanger
11
and the rotary cord hanger
20
with rotating as like in FIG.
5
.
However, winding the power cord
30
by the fixed cord hanger
11
and the rotary cord hanger
20
is obviously less satisfactory in sanitation because of staining alien substances on the floor.
It is still less satisfactory to complicate the winding operation because of directly winding the power cord
30
by hands.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to solve the problems involved in the related art and provide a device for winding a power cord of an up-right vacuum cleaner on a fixed cord hanger and a rotary cord hanger by the rotation of a winding device engaged on a main body without a direct hand-gripping.
To achieve the above objects, a device for winding the power cord of an up-right vacuum cleaner according to the present invention, is provided to wind the power cord on a rear side of a main body. A rotary member is inserted from the front side of the main body into the rear side thereof. A power cord holder is coupled from the rear side of the main body into the front side to wind with guiding the power cord toward a circumference direction by the rotation of the rotary member. A rotary hanger is engaged on the upper part of the main body within a radius of the power cord holder for pivoting to allow winding of the power cord when the power cord holder rotates past the rotary hanger, and then repatriating to prevent the power cord from becoming unwound after a passing of the rotary hanger by the power cord holder. A fixed cord hanger is positioned on the lower part inside of the radius of the power cord holder for winding the power cord while passing the power cord holder.
Thereby, the device for winding the power cord is provided for an excellent sanitation and for the easy winding.
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Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis L.L.P.
Samsung Kwangiu Electronics Co. Ltd.
Schlak Daniel K
Walsh Donald P.
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