Patent ID: 7510586

Claim:
A dust separating and collecting apparatus for a suction cleaner, the apparatus comprising: a. at least one cyclonic separating device comprising a body through which a stream of air with dust therein can be caused to flow by a suction unit from an air inlet to an air outlet of the device, said inlet and outlet being at or adjacent one end of the body and said separating device further having a lateral outlet at or adjacent the other end of the body for dust separated from the airstream in the course of its passage through the separator: and b. a single receptacle ( 34 ) for the separated dust, the receptacle ( 34 ) being movably disposed alongside said separating device ( 10 , 11 ) and having an inlet ( 42 ) for separated dust communicating with the dust outlet ( 20 , 32 ) of the separating device ( 10 , 11 ), the receptacle being selectively attachable to the separating device to receive separated dust during operation and removable from the separating device to empty the separated dust from the receptacle.