Patent ID: 8875340

Claim:
An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprising: (a) a floor cleaning head having a dirty air inlet; (b) an upright section moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a storage position and an in use position and comprising a removably mounted portable cleaning unit; (c) an air flow passage extending from the dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and including at least a flexible hose and a conduit section, the flexible hose and the conduit section removable with the portable cleaning unit; (d) the portable cleaning unit comprising a suction motor and an air treatment member positioned in the air flow passage, the cleaning unit useable when removed from the upright section; (e) the conduit section having an inlet end and an outlet end, the inlet end of the conduit is rotatably connected to a downstream end of the flexible hose about an axis parallel to air flow through the inlet end.