The Scott-Fetzer Company

Philip G Hays

Diane L Dodson

Robert L Petrosky

Phillip E Bearden

An apparatus for use with a vacuum cleaner filter bag comprises a vacuum cleaner fill tube. The fill tube is configured for the bag to be mounted on the fill tube. The fill tube has an outlet through which a working flow of vacuum cleaner air can exit the fill tube to enter the bag when the bag is mounted on the fill tube. Additionally, the apparatus comprises a valve shiftable into and out of a closed condition in which the valve blocks the air from exiting the fill tube through the outlet.

Vacuum cleaner fill tube with valve

A brush roll assembly for an upright vacuum cleaner having mounting blocks at each end to support the brush at different levels, to account for wear, depending on the selected angular orientation of such blocks. The blocks, while of different size to prevent improper installation end-for-end, are relatively large for convenience and performance and are configured to avoid obstruction of edgewise air flow and to avoid improper installation in an angular sense.

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Westlake, OH, United States of America

Philip G Hays