Patent ID: 7370390
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
1. A pivot connection for connecting the wand of a vacuum cleaner hose to a vacuum cleaner nozzle of the type having an exhaust aperture through which air is drawn into a vacuum hose, the pivot connection comprising in combination: a hollow three-sided arcuate duct having a transverse generally rectangular cross section with a curved front wall and contiguous laterally opposed side walls having lower ends adjoined to a top surface of the nozzle surrounding the exhaust aperture on three sides forming an arcuate extension with an interior in air flow communication with the exhaust aperture and terminating in a generally rectangular open top end disposed in an angular plane with respect to a vertical axis; and a hollow tubular hose connector member having an elongate tubular portion with a lower end pivotally mounted in said duct and a central longitudinal bore adapted to receive and engage a tubular wand attached to one end of a vacuum hose, said hose connector lower end configured to engage said duct interior in a sliding air-sealing relation; wherein said hose connector is pivotal in a vertical plane about a horizontal axis between a lowermost position and an uppermost position relative to the nozzle and said duct.