Patent ID: 7191490

Claim:
A soil collection receptacle attaching/detaching apparatus for a cyclone vacuum cleaner, which allows only a soil collection receptacle to be attached to or detached from a cyclone unit that includes a cyclone body as well as the soil collection receptacle, in which the cyclone unit is installed in an accommodation recess provided in a cleaner body, the soil collection receptacle attaching/detaching apparatus comprising: a guide member located at a part of the accommodation recess where the soil collection receptacle is installed, and comprising guide projections formed on opposite sides; and an operation lever provided with a manipulation part and guide holes that cooperate with the guide projections, wherein if the manipulation part is pushed to the cleaner body in the state where the soil collection receptacle is installed in the accommodation recess, the guide projections move up along the guide holes and thus the guide member is lifted, whereby the soil collection receptacle is lifted and engaged with the cyclone body, and if the manipulation part is pushed outside the cleaner body in the state where the soil collection receptacle is engaged with the cyclone body, the guide projections move down along the guide holes and thus the guide member is lowered, whereby the soil collection receptacle is separated from the cyclone body.