Patent ID: 6243912
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
A vacuum cleaner of the kind comprising a body which carries a main cleaning implement and a source of suction, the body having a recess adapted to receive a collection container releasably through an opening formed at one side of the body, wherein said collection container includes a suction passage which is releasably connectable at the base of the container to a suction duct connected with said cleaning implement, connection means are provided at the upper end of the collection container for releasable connection of said collection container to said source of suction within the body to establish suction at said cleaning implement and air flow from said implement through said duct and said suction passage to said source of suction, and two interchangeable separator units are provided for selective assembly with the collection container, one of said separator units being a wet-mode separator unit which is adapted for connection to said suction passage when the apparatus is to be operated in a wet mode and operates to separate entrained liquid droplets from the air-flow, and the other of said separator units being a dry-mode separator unit which is adapted to be mounted within the collection container at a position spaced from said suction passage when the apparatus is to be used in the dry mode and operates to separate dry material entrained in the air-flow.