Patent ID: 11903547
Assignee: OMACHRON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INC.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
a hand vacuum cleaner comprising:
i. a main body comprising a bottom, a handle, the main body housing a suction motor and fan assembly, the suction motor and fan assembly having a suction motor axis of rotation; and,
ii. a cyclone unit provided on a front of the main body, the cyclone unit comprising a front, a rear and a cyclone chamber, the front of the cyclone unit having a cyclone unit air inlet that is centrally positioned on a front wall of the cyclone unit and the rear of the cyclone chamber having a cyclone chamber air outlet whereby air exits the cyclone unit in a rearward direction;

a surface cleaning head having a front, a rear, a dirt air inlet and a cleaning head air outlet; and,
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 which, when attached to the hand vacuum cleaner, is parallel to the rearward direction and when the hand vacuum cleaner is mounted to a downstream end of the rigid air flow conduit, the handle is a driving handle for the surface cleaning apparatus, wherein the hand vacuum cleaner air inlet comprises a hand vacuum cleaner inlet passage that comprises the cyclone unit air inlet, is generally parallel to the longitudinally extending conduit axis and extends through a central portion of the cyclone chamber, the hand vacuum cleaner inlet passage having an inlet end and an outlet end, the outlet end communicating with a cyclone chamber air inlet.