Patent ID: 6968587
Filing Date: 2005-11-29
Classification: A46B,A47L,A62C

Abstract:
1. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising: a) a body having a forward compartment with an opening in a lower surface thereof, and a rear compartment; b) an elongate rotatable brush extending across the forward compartment, the bristles adapted to extend through the opening in the forward compartment as the brush arrangement is rotated; and c) a belt connecting an electric motor to the rotatable brush, wherein a lower front region of the body is chamfered to increase the extent to which the bristles protrude from the body in the region of the chamfer such that, when the apparatus is inclined relative to a surface to be cleaned, contact between the bristles and the surface to be cleaned is increased; the apparatus further comprises an intermediate compartment for collecting debris; and a front part of the forward compartment is movable to expose bristles on the elongate rotatable brush at the front part of the forward compartment.