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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shinichiro Kajihara, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
15325 ; 15339 ; 15351 ;
Abstract
An upright vacuum cleaner includes a suction port body and a handle body which incorporates a fan motor and a dust collecting case and which is mounted to the suction port body to be tiltable about the rotating shaft of the fan motor as the tilting fulcrum. The suction port body is constituted by a suction port base, having a substantially rectangular suction port at a front lower surface thereof through which a rotary brush is exposed, for rotatably axially supporting the rotary brush, and a suction port hood detachably mounted to the suction port base.