Patent ID: 6530114
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
A dust wand cleaning appliance for cleaning a reusable dust wand to be cleaned, comprising:first means for receiving at least a portion of the dust wand to be cleaned; second means cooperative with said first means for removing foreign matter from the dust wand to be cleaned when it is received by said first means; wherein said first means includes a canister having a chamber adapted to receive the dust wand to be cleaned and said second means includes a motor driven fan, a filter and a power module operatively connected to said motor driven fan that are mounted to said canister; wherein said canister is provided by mating, interfitting first and second housing bodies and wherein a baffle cooperates with at least one of said first and second housing bodies to provide said chamber; and wherein said second means includes an annulus in communication with a portion of said chamber and an agitation member extending circumferentially radially inwardly about said annulus to provide mechanical agitation of the dust wand to be cleaned when it is received in said chamber.