Patent ID: 8973214
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
1. A cyclone bin assembly comprising: (a) a cyclone chamber having an air inlet, an air outlet, a dirt outlet, a first opposed end, a second opposed end, a sidewall and a direction of rotation; and, (b) a dirt collection chamber in communication with the dirt outlet and surrounding at least a portion of the cyclone chamber and comprising a first opposed end having a first end wall, a second opposed end having a second end wall that is spaced from and opposed to the first end wall and is provided with the dirt outlet, a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising a first chamber and the second portion comprising a second chamber, the first chamber being positioned downstream from the second chamber in the direction of rotation, the first chamber having a downstream distal end in the direction of rotation and the second chamber having an upstream distal end in the direction of rotation, wherein the first chamber is isolated from the second chamber other than by a passage extending between the dirt outlet and an opposed wall of the dirt collection chamber that is laterally spaced from the dirt outlet, wherein the dirt outlet has an upstream end in the direction of rotation and a downstream end and the upstream distal end of the second chamber is located upstream of the upstream end of the dirt outlet in the direction of rotation wherein the passage is provided in the second opposed end of the dirt collection chamber, and the passage is narrower in the lateral direction than the first portion and the second portion immediately beside the passage.