Patent ID: 9591958
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: A47L

Claim:
1. A hand vac comprising: (a) a body housing a suction motor and having an upper end, a lower end, a front end and a rear end; (b) a cyclone bin assembly comprising a cyclone chamber that extends along a cyclone axis and has a sidewall, a cyclone air inlet, a cyclone air outlet, and a dirt collection chamber exterior to the cyclone chamber, the cyclone chamber comprising two dirt outlets provided in a lower portion of the sidewall of the cyclone chamber wherein a front dirt outlet is positioned on a front side of the cyclone chamber and a rear dirt outlet is positioned on a rear side of the cyclone chamber wherein a plane bisecting the housing along a front to rear direction extends through each of the front dirt outlet and the rear dirt outlet and wherein the lower portion of the sidewall of the cyclone chamber at an elevation of the dirt outlets is continuous from the front dirt outlet to the rear dirt outlet; (c) a handle positioned rearward of the cyclone bin assembly, the handle extending upwardly and forwardly from a lower end of the handle to an upper end of the handle when the hand vac is oriented with the upper end above the lower end and the cyclone axis is vertically oriented; and, (d) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet provided on the front end of the body to a clean air outlet and including the suction motor and the cyclone chamber.