Patent ID: 7854038

Claim:
A cleaning apparatus comprising: a base; a bracket attached to the base; wheels rotatably attached to the base for wheeling the base across a floor; a cleaning attachment configured to be attached to the base and moved against the floor to clean the floor as the base is wheeled across the floor; a handle for manually pushing the base by the handle to wheel the base across the floor, and configured to be removably attached to the base by a procedure that includes hooking the handle onto the bracket and then pivoting the handle relative to the bracket into an installed position; a dirt receptacle attached to the handle and configured to be pivoted with the handle relative to the base; and an outlet port through which the base exhausts dirt laden air, and an inlet port through which the dirt-laden air enters the dirt receptacle, the outlet port being fixed to the bracket and the inlet port being fixed to the handle, such that the inlet port is moved toward and into connection with the outlet port by pivotal movement of the handle toward and into its installed position.