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

Claim 11:
12. 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 when the dirty air inlet faces forwardly, a suction motor and fan assembly having a suction motor axis of rotation and a pistol grip handle
wherein the suction motor axis of rotation is generally parallel to the cyclone axis of rotation;
(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 which is mountable 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, 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 the pistol grip handle extends generally radially away from 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.