Patent ID: 6669750
Filing Date: 2003-12-30
Classification: B01D

Abstract:
An access port for a house vacuum equipped with a removable trap comprising:a port body of elongated cylindrical shape having an open top and an apertured bottom in fluid communication with a vacuum source; a port cover pivotally connected to a floor panel by hinge means, said port cover having an outer dimension that is at least the outer dimension of said port body for sealingly engaging an upper rim of said port body when said port cover is in a closed position; a debris trap of elongated cylindrical shape removably mounted inside said port body for collecting debris for a vacuuming operation and for allowing air to pass therethrough through a plurality of apertures provided in a sidewall and in a bottom plate of said debris trap, said debris trap is supported in a suspended manner spaced-apart from an inner periphery and said apertured bottom of said port body by a distance of at least 0.5 cm; and a cover for said vacuum hose access port pivotally connected to said port cover by a hinge means, said access port being equipped with a downwardly projecting sidewall for frictionally engaging an outer peripheral surface of a vacuum hose when said cover for the access port is pivotally opened, said cover for the vacuum hose access port having a diameter smaller than an outer dimension of said port cover.