Patent ID: 8713754

Claim:
An upright surface cleaning apparatus having a front, a rear and opposed lateral sides and comprising: a) a surface cleaning head having a dirt inlet; b) an upper section pivotally coupled to the surface cleaning head and pivotable about a first axis between an in use position and a storage position and rotationally mounted to the surface cleaning head and rotatable about a rotational axis between an aligned orientation and at least one non-aligned orientation when in the use position, the upper section is positionable in the storage position when the upper section is in the aligned orientation; c) an air flow path extending from the dirt inlet to a clean air outlet with a suction motor and a treatment member provided in the air flow path; and d) an alignment mechanism comprising a first cooperating alignment member associated with the surface cleaning head and a second cooperating alignment member associated with the upper section, the first and second members positioned such that when the upper section is in both the at least one non-aligned orientation and the in use position and is then pivoted toward the storage position engagement of the first and second members urges the upper section to rotate about the rotational axis toward the aligned orientation while simultaneously pivoting about the pivot axis into the storage position.