Black Decker Inc.

Black & Decker Inc.

Graeme Crawley

Stephen Andrew Houghton

Martin Harnett

Jamie S Munn

Gary Spratt

James R Standaloft

Leighton Alexander Merritt

Evan G Eskridge

Genzhang Ye

Suhu Zhou

Carl Malia

Paul Ringer

Ryan Hargett

Robert P Welsh

Tylan A Tschopp

Lea Kobeli

Oleksiy P Sergyeyenko

James Douglas Marshall

Oleksiy Petrovych Sergyeyenko

Mark James Baxter

Samuel P Thompson

Edward Wilson Licitra

Jonathan Patrick Summers

Derek Muir

Robert J B Hobden

Germain Verbrackel

Corey Donald MacTavish

Christopher Hussey

Steven R Wiezorek

Ana Garcia

Stacey Ellen Black

Neil Walmsley

Mark Thomas Davies

Hayley Chalmers

Conor James Kirkpatrick

Mark Reeves

Conor Kirkpatrick

Steam cleaner

A vacuum cleaner comprising: a housing; a fan; a dirt collection chamber having an opening for emptying dirt from the dirt collection chamber; and a cover movable between a closed position, in which the cover seals the opening, and an open position, wherein the vacuum cleaner is configured to operate: in a suction mode in which the fan generates a suction airflow from an air inlet to an air outlet; and in a blow mode in which the fan generates a blowing airflow from the air outlet to the opening when cover is in the open position.

Vacuum cleaner

Vacuum

Handheld vacuum cleaner

Portable wet dry vacuum cleaner

A vacuum cleaner comprises a housing and a motor fan assembly arranged to generate an air flow. A detachable dirt container is mountable to the housing and the dirt container has a dirty air inlet in fluid communication with the motor fan assembly. A filter is for separating dirt from the air flow and the filter is mounted between the dirt container and the motor fan assembly. Wherein the detachable dirt container comprises an emptying aperture in a wall of the dirt container, the emptying aperture being downstream in the air flow from the dirty air inlet and upstream of the filter. Wherein the housing comprises an overlap portion for covering the emptying aperture in the dirt container and sealing the emptying aperture when the detachable dirt container is mounted to the housing.

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Graeme Crawley