Patent ID: 11950752
Assignee: OMACHRON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INC.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 15:
16. A hand vacuum cleaner comprising:
(a) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet provided at a front end of the hand vacuum cleaner to a clean air outlet;
(b) a main body housing a suction motor;
(c) an air treatment member having a front end and a rear end with a longitudinal axis extending between the front and rear ends;
(d) a bleed valve having a bleed air flow path that extends from a bleed air inlet to a bleed air outlet, and a bleed valve axis which is a long dimension of the bleed valve; and,
(e) a handle,
wherein the hand vacuum cleaner has a rear end axially spaced from the front end, an upper end, a lower end and first and second laterally opposed sides, and
wherein, when the hand vacuum cleaner is oriented with the dirty air inlet at the upper end of the hand vacuum cleaner and with the longitudinal axis extending horizontally, the bleed valve axis also extends horizontally and in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis, the bleed valve is positioned below the suction motor and air travels upwardly to the suction motor from the bleed air outlet.