The Hoover Comapny

Richard A Wareham

David W Moine

Ronald J Stephens

Nick M Bosyj

Darwin T McKnight

Edgar A Maurer

Donald R Bowers

Nicholas Koukourakis

Conway Vincent

Sidney H Bradd

Lynn A Frederick

Darwin S Crouser

Kurt D Harsh

John D Essex

Kenneth L Symensma

Dean H Buchtel

Richard R Tucker

Keith G Minton

Paul L Moss

Douglas C Barker

Donald B Tschudy

Douglass A King

Arne J Diehl

John Charles Porter

David M Allgeier

Timothy B Hisrich

Robert C Shorthill

David M J Allgeier

Peter Ho Ka Nam

Gary M Johns

Michael W Crine

A cleaning apparatus for cleaning a surface is provided. The cleaning apparatus has a housing for movement along a surface with a suction nozzle assembly having an inlet and outlet provided on the housing. A recovery container is removably mounted to the housing. A hose having a first end detachably connected to the outlet of the suction nozzle and a second end in fluid communication with the recovery container floor-scrubbing machine is provided. A vacuum source is in fluid communication with the suction nozzle, hose, and recovery container for drawing dirt from the cleaning surface into the inlet of the suction nozzle and into. The cleaning apparatus further includes a handle movably connected to the housing and movable between a first position that locks the first end of the hose to the housing to a second position that unlocks the first end of the hose to the housing.

Portable cleaning machine

Mechanical sweeper

Suction nozzle for an upright extractor

Upper portion for an upright extractor

Base for an upright extractor

Tool caddy for a cleaner

Extractor base module hood

Medial front portion of a suction nozzle

Headlight for a carpet extractor

A hose and tool caddy removably mounts to an upright vacuum cleaner. The hose and tool caddy stores the vacuum cleaner hose and accessory tools, such as a dusting brush, furniture nozzle, extension wand and crevice tool, which are used for above-the-floor cleaning. When the upright vacuum cleaner is being used for floor care, the hose and tool caddy may be removed from the upright vacuum cleaner and hung-up. The hose and tool caddy includes a base and a guide member. The base is formed with a looped channel for receiving the hose, a pair of resilient C-clamps for supporting the dusting brush and furniture nozzle and a vertically extending channel for receiving the extension wand with the crevice tool stored therein. The upright vacuum cleaner includes a track member for slidably receiving the guide member when the hose and tool caddy is being mounted to the upright vacuum cleaner. The base includes an upwardly extending hook for grasping the hose and tool caddy when the hose and tool caddy is being mounted on or removed from the upright vacuum cleaner. The hook is used to hang the hose and tool caddy on a closet bar, door handle or the like.

Removable hose and tool caddy for a vacuum cleaner

A vacuum cleaner suction nozzle is provided with inner front and rear ducts and a duct cover piece disposed within the agitator chamber. This chamber is formed by a tunnel piece that is at least partly user observable from above the nozzle. The nozzle includes a hood piece which melds with its underbody at, at least, a portion of their juncture. This is occasioned by an offset in their underbody.

Vacuum cleaner suction nozzle configuration

Vacuum cleaner nozzle

Vacuum cleaner tool caddy

Growing community of inventors

North Canton, OH, United States of America

Richard A Wareham