Patent ID: 11910983
Assignee: OMACHRON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INC.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
(a) a hand vacuum cleaner having a front end having a dirty air inlet, a rear end, a clean air outlet, an upper end, a lower end, a cyclone unit comprising a cyclone chamber having a cyclone axis of rotation that extends in a forward/rearward direction, a suction motor and fan assembly having a suction motor axis of rotation and a pistol grip handle;
(b) a surface cleaning head having a front end, a rear end, a dirty air inlet and a surface cleaning head air outlet; and,
(c) a rigid air flow conduit which, when mounted to the surface cleaning head and the hand vacuum cleaner, extends between the surface cleaning head air outlet and the dirty air inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner,, wherein the pistol grip handle has a pistol grip portion and an end that is mounted to an outer wall of the hand vacuum cleaner at a location rearward of the front end and forward of a rear end of the suction motor and wherein a plane that is transverse to the cyclone axis of rotation extends through the pistol grip portion and the hand vacuum cleaner at a location rearward of the front end and forward of a rear end of the suction motor,, wherein the dirty air inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner is removably drivingly mountable to a downstream end of the rigid air flow conduit whereby when the hand vacuum cleaner is mounted to the downstream end of the rigid air flow conduit, the pistol grip handle is a driving handle for the surface cleaning apparatus, and, wherein when the hand vacuum cleaner is positioned with the front end of the hand vacuum cleaner in front of the rear end of the hand vacuum cleaner and the dirty air inlet faces forwardly, the cyclone axis of rotation is generally horizontal.