Patent ID: 8555463

Claim:
A device to groom animals, humans and textile objects and to collect hair, debris and other matter comprising: a head with a handle; said head having a top wall and a bottom wall attached to a right side wall and a left side wall to define a front side opening to form an inlet nozzle interior to said head wherein said top wall and said bottom wall having a generally trapezoidal shape with said front side opening larger than a back wall attached to said top wall, said bottom wall, said right side wall and said left side wall; said handle of sufficient length to grasp by hand having a conduit therethrough with a first end in fluid communication with said inlet nozzle of said head adjacent said back wall and a second end open at an exit end of said handle; said conduit having a nondecreasing cross-sectional interior dimension from said first end to said second end and said first end having a diameter smaller than a width of said back wall inner surface to define an open, unobstructed channel from said inlet nozzle to said second end; said head on said top wall in an outer surface having a cavity therein adjacent said front side and said top wall having an aperture therein for attachment of a grooming device; and said exit end attachable to a vacuum source.