Patent ID: 11903548
Assignee: OMACHRON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INC.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A hand vacuum cleaner having an upper end, a lower end, a front end, a rear end, a handle and first and second laterally opposed sides, each laterally opposed side extends in a forward/rearward direction, the hand vacuum cleaner comprising:
(a) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet provided at the front end of the hand vacuum cleaner to a clean air outlet positioned rearward of the dirty air inlet;
(b) a suction motor positioned in the air flow path upstream of the clean air outlet; and,
(c) a cyclone assembly positioned in the air flow path, the cyclone assembly comprising a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber exterior to the cyclone chamber, the cyclone chamber comprising a cyclone chamber sidewall extending between a first end wall and an opposed end wall, the dirt collection chamber is in communication with the cyclone chamber via a dirt outlet, the cyclone assembly comprises a stationary portion and an openable portion, the openable portion, which comprises a portion of the cyclone chamber sidewall, is rotatably mounted by a rotatable mount between a closed position in which the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber are closed and an open position in which the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber are open,
wherein the rotatable mount is located at a rearward end of the openable portion.