Vacuum cleaner with a divider

Details Vacuum cleaner with a divider Vacuum cleaner with a divider

2010-08-25

2011-11-01

Greene, Jason M (Department: 1776)

Gas separation

With concentrate backflow or re-entrainment preventing means

Baffle intermediate concentrate collector zone and gas...

C055S345000, C055S337000, C055S346000, C055S424000, C055S428000, C055S429000, C055S467000, C055SDIG030, C015S353000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08048183

ABSTRACT:
An indoor vacuum cleaner comprises a dirty air inlet, a handle, a cyclone separator having an outer wall, a fluid inlet downstream from the dirty air inlet and a fluid outlet, a plate having a cyclone chamber surface and positioned to substantially divide the cyclone separator into a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, each of the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber having an outer wall, the outer wall of each of the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber having an outer perimeter, the dirt collection chamber having a cyclone chamber end spaced from a dirt collection floor, a passage extending between the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber, the passage configured such that separated dirt travels at least outwardly as the dirt travels through the passage and, an air flow motor.

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