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

Claim 7:
8. 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 and a pistol grip handle, the hand vacuum cleaner comprising:
(i) a main body comprising an upper end, a lower end, a front end and a rear end, 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 comprising a cyclone chamber having a cyclone axis of rotation, a front end, an axially spaced apart rear end, a cyclone air inlet, and a cyclone air outlet provided at the rear end of the cyclone unit, wherein the cyclone axis of rotation intersects the 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 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 surface cleaning head air outlet and the dirty air inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner,
wherein the dirty air inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner is removably drivingly mounted 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, the cyclone axis of rotation is generally horizontal,
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.