Patent ID: 7251854

Claim:
A vacuum cleaner for use with a dust bag of the kind provided with a flange surrounding a dust input opening, comprising: a housing forming a dust collection chamber therein; a lid provided with an abutment and mounted on the housing for pivotal movement between open and closed positions; a suction connector forming an opening in a wall of the housing; an bracket forming an aperture and provided with an upper edge and mounted in the dust collection chamber for pivotal movement between a first position in which the bracket engages the wall and the aperture is substantially concentrically aligned with the opening and a second position in which the upper edge engages the abutment; a frame member mounted on the bracket for slidably inserting the flange when the bracket is in its second position; a protrusion mounted in the dust collection chamber and responsive to insertion of the flange for initiating movement of the bracket toward its first position and the upper edge thereof away from the abutment.