Patent ID: 6277163
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: A47L,Y10S

Abstract:
A filter housing for a filter element of a vacuum cleaner, comprising a housing body elongated along a housing axis and substantially surrounding an interior region adapted to receive the filter element, the housing body having a first impermeable portion toward one end of the housing axis and a second impermeable portion toward an opposite end of the housing axis, one of the first and second impermeable portions being at least partially openable for substantially receiving the filter element into the interior region, the housing body further having a generally porous intermediate portion extending along the housing axis between the first and second impermeable portions, the intermediate portion substantially surrounding at least a portion of the interior region and having a generally constant cross-sectional area when intersected by a plane approximately perpendicular to the housing axis along the entire length of the intermediate portion.