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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kevin J O'Dea, Southbury, CT (US);
Maurice Anthony Melito, East Haven, CT (US);
Michael Kin-Chung Ho, Shau Kei Wan, HK;
Assignee:
Black & Decker, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
15391 ;
Abstract
A vacuum cleaner with a handle and a floor traveling head. The head has a housing, a rotatable brush and a drive system. The housing has a bottom member with an aperture directly under a transmission belt of the drive system. A removable door is mounted to the bottom member such that a user can access the transmission belt without removing the bottom member.