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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2000
Terrance M. Roberts, Fayetteville, AR (US);
Oreck Holdings, LLC, Cheyenne, WY (US);
Abstract
A front edge cleaning device for an upright vacuum cleaner is disclosed. The front edge cleaning assembly comprises a flexible, resilient member frontally disposed on the head assembly of an upright vacuum cleaner. In one embodiment, the front edge cleaning device includes an elongated section having an upper section and a lower section with front and a rear faces, the rear face of the upper section being attached to the front wall of the vacuum cleaner and the lower section extending downwardly from the upper section and having the front face of the lower section beveled inwardly towards the rear face of the lower section to form an apical lower edge spaced apart from the floor with air openings positioned along the apical lower edge and projecting through the lower section. In another embodiment, the front edge cleaning device includes an elongated section having an upper section and a lower section with front and rear faces, the rear face of the upper section being at least partially attached to the front wall of the vacuum cleaner and the lower section extending downwardly from the upper section and having the front face of the lower section offset inwardly towards the rear face of the upper section to form a lower offset edge spaced apart from the floor with a plurality of air openings positioned along the lower offset edge and projecting through the lower section.