Patent ID: 7803207

Claim:
An indoor vacuum cleaner comprising: (a) a dirty air inlet; (b) a handle; (c) a cyclone separator comprising a cyclone chamber and having an outer wall, an associated dirt collection chamber, a fluid inlet downstream from the dirty air inlet and a fluid outlet, each of the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber having an outer wall, the outer wall of each of the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber having an outer perimeter, the dirt collection chamber having a cyclone chamber end spaced from a dirt collection surface; (d) a plate having a cyclone chamber surface wherein a portion of the cyclone chamber surface is longitudinally spaced from and faces an outwardly extending portion of the outer wall of the cyclone chamber whereby the outwardly extending portion overlies a portion of the cyclone chamber surface; (e) a passage extending between the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber, wherein the passage is formed at least in part, between the cyclone chamber surface of the plate and the outwardly extending portion of the outer wall of the cyclone separator whereby separated dirt travels at least outwardly as the dirt travels through the passage; and, (f) an air flow motor.