Shop Vac Corporation

Mcculloch Corporation

Hoggan Health Industries, Inc.

H-tech, LLC

Hayward Industries, Inc.

General Instrument Corporation

John Griffin

Robert L Crevling, Jr

Craig A Seasholtz

Kevin D Fry

Jason S Gottschall

Melvin E Wolfe, Jr

Li H Liu

Robert L Crevling

David M Martinez

Lynn D Hoggan

Michael K Durtschi

James R Richards

Jonathan Miller

Gary Ortiz

Ronald H Griffin

Jeffrey P Pecca

Liu H Li

Earl Van Wagoner, Iii

Robert C Berfield

Ronald F Meland

David Grubb

Joseph B Glaab

Dwayne Emory Clark

Melvin E Wolfe

Joel Brent Bowman

Marchal Depasquale

Cory F Girton

David Ebersole

Arnold Gee

Richard J Cipriano, Jr

Robert Lent Crevling

A vacuum cleaner handle mount assembly securable to a vacuum cleaner having a handle that can be pivoted from a storage position to an in-use position is disclosed. The vacuum cleaner handle mount assembly has a housing with a first and second channel, a handle with a first and second leg for respectively connecting to the first and second channel of the housing, a first and second locking mechanism for preventing the handle from pivoting during use, and a first and second nest respectively disposed in a side of the first and second channel for holding the first and second locking mechanisms respectively. The first and second locking mechanisms are rotatable from an in-use position extending across the respective first and second channels above the respective first and second legs and a storage position wherein the first and second locking mechanisms are located within the first and second nest respectively.

Vacuum cleaner handle mount assembly

Vacuum cleaner

Vacuum cleaner head

Mating connectors enable a vacuum cleaner section to be releasably attached to a toolbox section. The connectors include a downward-facing tongue that fits in a corresponding horizontal slot. The tongue has a vertical slot that corresponds with a vertical flange adjacent the slot. An interacting tab and slot prevent the vacuum cleaner section from being removed from the toolbox section when a closeable top on the toolbox section is closed. The two sections attach in a position in which upright side walls on the vacuum cleaner section align with the upright sides on the toolbox section, and an extended horizontal work surface is formed by portions of the hinged top on the toolbox section and the vacuum cleaner section. A handle on the vacuum cleaner section can form part of the horizontal work surface, which has parallel lateral grooves with co-linear segments on opposite sides of a recessed channel. A wheeled version has a handle hinged to a mount and a pocket that encircles and supports the vacuum cleaner section. Another version has a handle that retracts into the recessed channel and is arranged to support the top against the ground when the top is fully open.

Portable combined toolbox and vacuum cleaner

Combined handheld vacuum cleaner and mount

Blower

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Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

John Griffin