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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert C Shorthill, Canton, OH (US);
Assignee:
The Hoover Company, North Canton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
152462 ; 15339 ; 55279 ;
Abstract
A hard bag portion of a vacuum cleaner is provided with a scent dispensing arrangement where suction airflow is valved at the hard bag portion before the downstream disposed scent tablet. It includes a manually actuated loosely mounted, slide member having a pocket for containing a scent tablet. This slide and its pocket move sidewardly to be centered on or offset from a slot in the hard bag through which vacuum cleaner discharge air flows. This air flow impinges directly or indirectly of the scent tablet to provide a flow of lesser or greater scented air which escapes around the loosely mounted slide member.