Patent ID: 6766557
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: A47L,B04C,Y10S

Abstract:
An upright-type vacuum cleaner comprising:a cleaner body including a dust collecting chamber and a motor driving chamber, the dust collecting chamber having a first inlet port and a first outlet port, the motor driving chamber being connected to the first outlet port; a suction brush movably connected to the cleaner body being proximate to the motor driving chamber; and a cyclone dust collecting means removably mounted in the dust collecting chamber for centrifuging and collecting contaminants entrained in air that is drawn in through the suction brush, the cyclone dust collecting means including: a cyclone body having an upper body in which a second inlet port is disposed, being in fluid communication with the first inlet port, and a lower body connected to the cyclone body in which a second outlet port is disposed, being in fluid communication with the first outlet port, the cyclone body inducing air which is drawn in through the second inlet port, together with contaminants into a vortex; and a dust collecting receptacle removably disposed in the cyclone body for collecting contaminants entrained in the air by centrifugation of the vortex of air.