Patent ID: 6026541
Filing Date: 2000-02-22
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
A single, multi-purpose attachment tool for a hand-held vacuum cleaner operable in one mode as a crevice tool and in another mode as an extension wand, thereby overcoming the need to provide separate tools for different functions and therewith overcoming the need to provide storage space for multiple attachment tools and reducing the possibility of loss or misplacement of several, different attachment tools, comprising:an attachment end adapted for mounting to a hand-held vacuum cleaner;a nozzle end; anda self-supporting and selectably configurable accordion-joint integrally formed with and interconnecting said attachment and nozzle ends in fluid-tight communication;in one configuration, the self-supporting accordion-joint is axially collapsed on itself to provide operation in a crevice tool mode;in another configuration, the self-supporting accordion-joint is axially extended to provide operation in an elongated extension wand mode; andin a third configuration, the self-supporting accordion-joint is both axially extended and bent off-axis to provide operation in at least one of a crevice tool mode and an extension wand mode.