Patent ID: 6209169
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
A vacuum-cleaner nozzle comprising:a housing forming a turbine compartment and a brush compartment and having an outlet opening into the turbine compartment and adapted for connection to a fan input and a slot opening into the brush compartment;a brush rotatable in the brush compartment and having bristles projecting from the slot;a turbine in the turbine compartment and oriented such that air flow from the slot to the outlet rotates the turbine;drive means for coupling the turbine to the brush for rotating the brush;a button displaceable on the housing between an outer position and an inner position;a spring urging the button into the outer position; andlink means between the button and the drive means for arresting rotation of the brush on displacement of the button into the outer position and for rotation of the brush by the turbine when the button is in the inner position, the housing being formed with a handle adapted to be held by a hand of a user, the button being positioned immediately adjacent the handle for actuation by a finger of the hand on the handle.