Patent ID: 11903546
Assignee: OMACHRON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INC.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 13:
14. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
(a) a hand vacuum cleaner comprising:
(i) a main body comprising a lower end, an upper end, a front end, a rear end and a pistol grip handle, the main body housing a suction motor and fan assembly, the suction motor and fan assembly having a suction motor axis of rotation, the pistol grip handle is provided at the rear end of the main body and extends upwardly and forwardly when the hand vacuum cleaner is positioned with the front end forward of the rear end; and,
(ii) a cyclone unit comprising a cyclone chamber having a cyclone axis of rotation, a front end and a rear end wherein air exits the cyclone chamber at the rear end of the cyclone chamber, wherein the suction motor axis of rotation is generally parallel to the cyclone axis of rotation; and

(b) a surface cleaning head having a front end, a rear end, a dirty air inlet and a cleaning head air outlet; and,
(c) a rigid air flow conduit that is removably mountable to the surface cleaning head and, when attached to the hand vacuum cleaner and the surface cleaning head, extends between the cleaning head air outlet and a hand vacuum cleaner air inlet, the rigid air flow conduit having a longitudinally extending conduit axis,
wherein the hand vacuum cleaner is removably mountable to a downstream end of the rigid air flow conduit and, when the hand vacuum cleaner is mounted to the downstream end of the rigid air flow conduit, the handle is a driving handle for the surface cleaning apparatus and the longitudinally extending conduit axis of the rigid air flow conduit is parallel to the cyclone axis of rotation, and
wherein a finger grip area is provided at a location that is forward of the pistol grip handle and rearward of the cyclone, and
wherein a pre-motor filter has a height in a direction transverse to the cyclone axis and the height is larger than a diameter of the cyclone.