Patent ID: 8997309
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: A47L,B01D,B04C

Abstract:
1. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising: (a) an air flow passage extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and including a suction motor; (b) a cyclone bin assembly positioned in the air flow passage and comprising a cyclone chamber comprising a cyclone air inlet, a cyclone air outlet and a dirt outlet, and a dirt collection chamber having a radial outer wall, the cyclone bin assembly having a bin first end, an opposed bin second end axially spaced apart from the bin first end in an axial direction, the radial outer wall comprising a first sidewall portion extending at least nearly parallel to the axial direction, a second sidewall portion extending at least nearly parallel to the axial direction, the first sidewall portion having a first width in a lateral direction generally orthogonal to the axial direction, the second sidewall portion having a second width in the lateral direction that is different to the first width and a first inclined transition portion connecting the first sidewall portion and the second sidewall portion and widening from the first width to the second width, wherein the first inclined transition portion is located at the cyclone air inlet.