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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1998
Melvin E Wolfe, Jr, Hallstead, PA (US);
Mark E Baer, Williamsport, PA (US);
Felchar Manufacturing Corporation, Kirkland, NY (US);
Abstract
A motor housing for a vacuum cleaner includes a main body, a peripheral rim, and an interconnecting base bounding portions of a working air chamber. A portion of the peripheral rim defines a sidewall having a plurality of vanes and a plurality of exhaust openings, with the vanes and the exhaust openings cooperating to exhaust air from the working air chamber in response to rotation of the impeller. Each of the vanes having an airfoil-shaped cross section, and each vane is oriented such that the airfoil of each vane is oriented oppositely relative to the airfoil of its adjacent vanes. Thus, a first set of the vanes are positioned to direct air through the exhaust openings, while a second set of vanes are positioned to direct excess air from adjacent the exhaust openings toward the chamber and back into the flow pattern. The excess air is thus smoothly remixed at a different velocity with the air moving through the working air chamber such that synchronization of the air flow is reduced, and harmonic induced noise is minimized.