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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2017
Rug Doctor, Llc, Plano, TX (US);
Ernest Matthew Chavana, Jr., Villa Ridge, MO (US);
Richard Foster, Powell, OH (US);
Stanley Anderson, Fenton, MO (US);
Christopher Terpstra, Frisco, TX (US);
Jan Valentic, Plano, TX (US);
Xintao Ma, Suzhou, CN;
RUG DOCTOR, LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a body, a first tank, a second tank, a vacuum motor, a fluid pump, and a controller. The body comprises a handle and an accessory connection receptacle comprising a fluid output and an electrical contact. The first tank comprises a first vessel configured to accommodate a fluid. The second tank comprises a second vessel separated from the first vessel. The controller is configured to activate the fluid pump to cause fluid contained in the first tank to be supplied to the fluid output, and to activate the vacuum motor to draw one or more of air, debris, a liquid or a portion of the fluid into the second tank. The accessory connection receptacle is configured to accommodate a correspondingly shaped accessory connector configured to mate with the accessory connection receptacle and be communicatively coupled with the fluid output and with the electrical contact.