Suction To Or From Blast Patents (Class 15/330)
  • Patent number: 11627863
    Abstract: A dust collection box for a dust extractor includes first and second air inlet chambers, an air inlet aperture through which air is drawn into the first air inlet chamber, an air outlet aperture through which air is dawn out of the second air outlet chamber, an air intermediate chamber formed in the housing, and a filter mounted within the housing. The filter includes a first part through which air passes from the air inlet chamber to the air outlet chamber, and a second part through which air passes from the air inlet chamber to the air intermediate chamber. An ambient air aperture is formed in the wall of the housing. A valve disposed proximate the ambient air aperture is switchable to connect the air intermediate chamber to only one of the air outlet chamber or the ambient air aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Uwe Nemetz, Klaus-Dieter Arich, Martin Herbst, Arther Lauer
  • Patent number: 11571101
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a blowervac device having a grill that requires to distinct steps in securing the grill over a fan to activate a safety switch allowing power to the motor. The grill has an outer ring and a rotatable inner cover. The first step is simply to secure the grill over the fan. The second step requires the cover to be rotated, which activates an actuator for the safety switch, allowing power to be delivered to the motor and operation of the device. This two-step process reduces the likelihood if inadvertent operation of the device and reduces the chances of injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Rosenthal, John Palermo, Justin Cooper, Joseph Beyer
  • Patent number: 11109541
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blowing-suction device. The blowing-suction device includes: a housing, having a first opening connected to the outside; an air tube, connected to the housing; an air flow generation apparatus that operably generates an air flow, where when the blowing-suction device is in the blowing mode, the air flow is blown out from the air tube, or when the blowing-suction device is in the suction mode, the air flow is sucked from the air tube; and a collection apparatus, configured to collect an object sucked by the blowing-suction device in the suction mode, where the collection apparatus is connected to the first opening both in the blowing mode and in the suction mode, and the collection apparatus further includes an air admission portion, and in the blowing mode, the air admission portion is open; or in the suction mode, the air admission portion is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Huo, Xiahong Zha, Fengli Zhao, Shiping Jiao, Guoliang Mou
  • Patent number: 11064662
    Abstract: A blower has a fan, a motor, an air duct assembly having an air duct passage with an air inlet and an air outlet where the fan rotates to drive the airflow to enter into the air duct passage from the air inlet and to be exposed out of the air outlet, and an electrostatic neutralization apparatus. The electrostatic neutralization apparatus includes a first conductive end and a second conductive end wherein the first conductive end is located within the air duct passage and close to the fan and the second conductive end is also located within the air duct passage. The electrostatic neutralization apparatus of the blower effectively neutralizes electrostatic charges generated by the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dezhong Yang, Jifeng Feng, Jianpeng Guo
  • Patent number: 10945576
    Abstract: The invention is a floating handle system for a debris handling machine. The debris handling machine picks up leaves and debris along the roadside. The debris handling machine is comprised of a vacuum blower that sucks up leaves through a hose. Attached to the blower vacuum is a biasing system consisting of an L-shaped biasing piece that extends upward vertically from the blower vacuum and then horizontally in the plane of the hose. Attached to the distal end of the L-shaped piece is a biasing chain. The other end of the biasing chain is attached to the hose. The handle assembly is a front handle that is permanently attached to the distal end of the hose and a floating handle that can move over the hose from the front handle to the point at which the biasing chain is attached to the hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventor: James Seliga
  • Patent number: 10897858
    Abstract: An air-flow generating device, such as a blower, a vacuum, a mulcher, etc. The device may include a motor, a housing that supports the motor, and a passageway coupled to the housing and defining a passageway axis between a first opening and a second opening. The device may also include a fan assembly with a first axial fan and a second axial fan, and a transmission assembly coupling the first axial fan and the second axial fan to the motor. The transmission assembly may include a transmission shaft rotatable about a transmission axis substantially orthogonal to the passageway axis. An actuator may be operable to adjust the fan assembly about the transmission axis between a first condition, in which the first axial fan is positioned proximate the first opening, and a second condition, in which the second axial fan is positioned proximate the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITED
    Inventors: Ronald J. Hoffman, Lance A. Eckard
  • Patent number: 10849475
    Abstract: A vacuum dusting attachment comprised of a telescoping brush head on a semi-flexible mounted base, centrally positioned over a disk-shaped piece featuring open apertures for dust collection and edged with lighting, of which the disk's backside narrows to provide a bendable, cushioned, ergonomically designed area for a pinch hold for index and thumb, circumferentially widening to contain a battery chamber for the lighting, extending into a cushioned hand hold area with added non-slippage features, internal friction end to attach to another device or vacuum source hose/wand. An additional independent accordion hose extension vacuum attachment for use with aforesaid dusting attachment or other device, of which the accordion hose is sandwiched between a grip disk and handle allowing to manipulate the hose to desired lengths and bends to reach distant target areas, and collapsing for minimal storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventor: Kathleen J. Williamson
  • Patent number: 10827888
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner is provided with an improved air bleed valve for adjusting the level of suction and air flow through a working air path fluidly connecting a working air inlet with a separating and collection assembly. The air bleed valve can be provided on upright handle assembly of the vacuum cleaner, and can form a portion of the working air path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: BISSELL Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolas James Morrow, Christopher Derek Stirling, Kenneth M. Lenkiewicz
  • Patent number: 10806312
    Abstract: A vacuum and blower device is disclosed. The vacuum and blower device comprises a fan driven by a first motor, and a housing with a vent, a vacuum input aperture, and a blower output aperture. The vacuum input aperture and the blower output aperture are on one end of the device. The vacuum and blower device further includes an airflow director, the airflow director being held within the housing and adapted to be rotated between a first and second position. A blower output channel communicates with the airflow director and the blower output aperture. In the first position, the fan draws air through the vacuum input aperture and out the vent and airflow to the blower output channel is blocked. In the second position, the fan blows air through the blower output channel and out the blower output aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Hall Labs LLC
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Jerome Miles, Casey Webb
  • Patent number: 10765276
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a handy-type vacuum cleaner has a vacuum cleaner main body, a gripping part for use for gripping the vacuum cleaner main body, and a blower attachment to be attached to/detached from the vacuum cleaner main body. The vacuum cleaner main body includes an electric blower, a dust-collecting device, a main body connecting port, a suction air path, and an exhaust air path. The dust-collecting device stores the dust and dirt sucked by driving of the electric blower. The blower attachment is inserted into/extracted from the main body connecting port. The suction air path communicates between the main body connecting port and the dust-collecting device. The exhaust air path communicates with the exhaust side of the electric blower. The exhaust air path communicates with the blower attachment when the blower attachment is inserted into the main body connecting port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoko Shinagawa
  • Patent number: 10724530
    Abstract: A blower may (100) include a power unit and fan assembly powered by the power unit, a stepless trigger (146), control circuitry configured to at least partially control application of power to drive the fan assembly based on a position of the stepless trigger (146), and one or more buttons. The fan assembly may rotate at a speed proportional to the position of the stepless trigger (146) in a first mode of operation. The control circuitry may be configured to enable the operator to actuate a first button (164) of the one or more buttons to shift to a second mode of operation in which speed of the fan assembly is not proportional to the position of the stepless trigger (146) over at least a portion of a range of motion of the stepless trigger (146).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventors: Christian Bylund, Pär Martinsson, Pierre Lanquist
  • Patent number: 10722085
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blowing-suction device, selectively operating in a blowing mode or a suction mode, comprising: a main body; a motor located inside the main body, the motor having a motor shaft providing rotational motion; a fan assembly driven by the motor to rotate; and a blowing assembly and a suction assembly connected to the main body; wherein the fan assembly includes an axial fan that, while in the blowing mode, the blowing assembly is connected to the main body, and wherein the axial fan rotates around a first rotary shaft, and, while in the suction mode, the suction assembly is connected to the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zhendong Gao, Andrea Cestonaro, Xiahong Zha, Fengli Zhao, Lixiang Huo
  • Patent number: 10674681
    Abstract: A blower including a base having a housing, a handle extending from the housing, a power source positioned within the housing, the blower including: a drive shaft extending forwardly from the power source, wherein the drive shaft is rotatable by the power source; a fan member operatively connected to the drive shaft; a flywheel extending rearwardly from the power source, the flywheel being positioned adjacent to a rear of the housing; and at least one rear vent formed into the rear of the housing adjacent to the flywheel, wherein rotation of the flywheel draws ambient air into the housing through the at least one rear vent, and rotation of the flywheel generates a cooling air flow that directs the ambient air across the power source to cool the power source during operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MTD PRODUCTS INC
    Inventors: Robert Bermudez, John Payne
  • Patent number: 10531772
    Abstract: A handheld vacuum cleaner including a suction inlet, a main body, a handle defined by a portion of the main body, a motor disposed within the main body operating a suction source, and a filter coupled to the main body. The filter is configured to separate debris from a flow of fluid drawn through the suction inlet. The filter includes a housing forming a first volume and a filter media forming a second inner volume. The filter media is coupled to the housing such that the first and second inner volumes together at least partially define a collection container configured to store debris separated by the filter media from the flow of fluid. The filter further includes an inlet opening that extends through the housing to provide fluid communication into the collection container such that the flow of fluid with the debris can flow into the collection container such that the flow of fluid with the debris can flow into the collection container and a relatively clean flow of fluid exits through the filter media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: TTI (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited
    Inventors: Robert Patrick Warren, Roderick Burgess, Joseph M. Lehman, Garry Fee, Michael Bloom, William Jacob Kozlowski, Jr., Steven Marcus
  • Patent number: 10487850
    Abstract: A handheld blower includes a fan for generating an air flow, a motor for driving the fan to rotate about a central axis, a battery pack for supplying power to the motor, an air duct portion including an air duct, the air duct extending long the central axis, a coupling portion for coupling with the battery pack, and a connection portion for connecting the air duct portion with the coupling portion. The fan is received in the air duct. The air duct includes an air duct inlet and an air duct outlet which are respectively located at the two ends of the air duct. The air duct inlet is located between the air duct outlet and the coupling portion. The connection portion is provided with an air intake space located between the air duct inlet and the coupling portion. The air intake space is opened in a radial direction of the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Chevron (HK) Limited
    Inventors: Xiandian Shao, Toshinari Yamaoka, Fangjie Nie, Jianpeng Guo
  • Patent number: 10418883
    Abstract: A cover assembly and a brushed motor are provided. The cover assembly includes a mounting portion and a flow guide portion. The mounting portion defines a first opening through the mounting portion along an axial direction of the motor. The flow guide portion includes a top wall disposed at one end thereof away from the mounting portion along the motor axial direction. The fluid guide portion defines a second opening extending to an inner wall surface of the top wall in the motor axial direction. The first opening and the second opening are in flow communication with each other. The flow guide portion further defines a winding flow passage. The flow passage has an inner inlet in flow communication with the second opening and an outer outlet in flow communication with an outside environment. The present invention facilitates absorption of the motor noise and hence reduction of the output noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Min Li, Jin Jin Wu, Kok Ang Chong, Cheng Zhuang Zhu
  • Patent number: 10398095
    Abstract: Disclosed is a blowing-suction device, comprising a housing; an air pipe extending along a longitudinal direction and connected to the housing; a motor located in the housing and providing rotational motion; and a fan rotationally generating an airflow; wherein when the fan operably rotates along a first direction, the blowing-suction device is in a blowing mode; and when the fan operably rotates along a second direction, the blowing-suction device is in a suction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zhendong Gao, Andrea Cestonaro, Xiahong Zha, Fengli Zhao, Hongfeng Zhong
  • Patent number: 10293387
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a self-cleaning water pipe including a secondary pipe that directs a stream of filtered water to the top of the main pipe. The stream of water is introduced to the main pipe proximate or adjacent to the mouthpiece in a lateral direction so as to cover the entire inner surface of the main pipe with a water membrane. The water membrane presents a barrier to smoke residue and particulates from being deposited on the inner surface of the main pipe. A tertiary pipe may also introduce a stream of water to a downstem pipe so as to create a similar water membrane in the downstem pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Jonathan Richard Gilmore
  • Patent number: 10238257
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vacuum attachment comprising a body including an adaptor configured to connect to a vacuum assembly, a vacuum airflow path configured to be in fluid communication with the vacuum assembly, and a dispensing airflow path configured to be in fluid communication with a pressurized gas source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Inventor: Brad Jareczek
  • Patent number: 10206338
    Abstract: A blower includes a blower body. The blower body includes a housing, an impeller arranged inside the housing, and a motor arranged in the housing and driving the impeller to rotate. The blower body includes an air inlet and an air outlet. The blower further includes a base and a regulating mechanism. The blower body is mounted on the base via the regulating mechanism, and the regulating mechanism includes a coupling member, a regulating knob and a resetting member. The blower body is rotatably mounted on the base via the coupling member, the regulating knob is arranged on the base and cooperates with the coupling member to limit the coupling member, and the resetting member is arranged on the base and cooperates with the regulating knob to cause the regulating knob to reset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Zhejiang Prulde Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ting Han, Weiming Yang
  • Patent number: 10201259
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner is provided. The vacuum cleaner comprising a hand-held device, in which the hand-held device includes: a housing defining an air inlet, an air outlet and an air blowing port therein, the air blowing port being disposed adjacent to the air inlet; a dust cup disposed in the housing and connected with the air inlet; and an electric motor defining a motor chamber, wherein an airflow entering through the air inlet switchably flows out of one of the air outlet and the air blowing port by a switching mechanism after flowing through the dust cup and the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: JIANGSU MIDEA CLEANING APPLIANCES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinzhou Wang, Yonghua Wang, Min Zhong, Huazhen Tan
  • Patent number: 10182690
    Abstract: A cleaner is provided. The cleaner includes a machine body and a handle, and the handle is disposed on the machine body and pivotable between a first position and a second position, in which the handle is located at a front side of the machine body when the handle is in the first position, and the handle is located at a rear side of the machine body when the handle is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: JIANGSU MIDEA CLEANING APPLIANCES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huazhen Tan
  • Patent number: 10118502
    Abstract: Temperature conditioning unit according to the present invention includes: impeller, electric motor, fan case, and housing. Impeller includes impeller disk and a plurality of rotor blades. The plurality of rotor blades extends in a direction along rotary shaft. Each of the plurality of rotor blades has a cross-sectional circular-arc shape, in a direction intersecting rotary shaft, which is a convex form curving outward toward a direction of rotation of impeller disk. Each of the plurality of rotor blades includes an inner-periphery-side edge located on the rotary shaft side, and an outer-periphery-side edge located on the opposite rotary-shaft side. Housing includes external surface on which fan case is mounted. In the inside of housing, a member to be temperature conditioned is accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shizuka Yokote, Michihiro Kurokawa, Masahito Hidaka, Koji Kuyama
  • Patent number: 10107292
    Abstract: A vacuum/blower device is provided with a drive motor and a fan operatively connected to the drive motor and driven by the drive motor. A switching device is provided that switches the vacuum/blower device from a vacuum operation to a blower operation and from the blower operation to the vacuum operation. A suction pipe with an intake opening is provided, wherein, in the vacuum operation of the vacuum/blower device, a suction air flow is sucked in from the intake opening toward the fan in a first flow direction. The switching device switches a rotational direction of the fan, wherein the fan in the blower operation conveys a blower air flow through the suction pipe in a second flow direction that is oriented from the fan toward the intake opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kevin Schäffler, Cornelius Gindele, Markus Hittmann, Christian Barth
  • Patent number: 10080473
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a cleaner body and a post-motor filter is positioned in the air flow passage downstream from and aligned with the suction motor and, the post-motor filter and the cleaner body are separable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 10010914
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a self-cleaning water pipe including a secondary pipe that directs a stream of filtered water to the top of the main pipe. The stream of water is introduced to the main pipe proximate or adjacent to the mouthpiece in a lateral direction so as to cover the entire inner surface of the main pipe with a water membrane. The water membrane presents a barrier to smoke residue and particulates from being deposited on the inner surface of the main pipe. A tertiary pipe may also introduce a stream of water to a downstem pipe so as to create a similar water membrane in the downstem pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Inventor: Jonathan Richard Gilmore
  • Patent number: 9986692
    Abstract: A debris blower includes an engine mounted to an engine mount and connected to a turbine. The engine mount and housing of the turbine are respectively mounted between a second side of a frame and first and second longitudinal supports connected to and between first and second sides of the frame. A screen guard is secured utilizing bolts extending in a non-rotatable manner from a top plate connected between the second longitudinal support and the second side. Due to the frame and engine mount having a parallelism and flatness tolerance, the engine and turbine can be aligned without shimming. A sensor senses first and second trip devices positioned at circumferential locations on the exit nozzle to rotate the exit nozzle to preset angles. Remote and hard wire controls each include direction and speed switches. A resume switch throttles the engine between idle and operating speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Turfco Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Kinkead, Nicholas Oeding, Daryl Halvorson
  • Patent number: 9980618
    Abstract: A dust collecting device includes a tank and a main body housing a motor and detachably attachable to an upper part of the tank. A handle and a cover are both provided in an upper part of the main body. The handle is capable of being raised and turned down around a handle rotation shaft. The cover is capable of being opened and closed around a cover rotation shaft and covers a housing portion provided in the main body in a closed position. The cover rotation shaft is provided in parallel to the handle rotation shaft. The cover rotation shaft is positioned closer to a grip portion of the handle than the handle rotation shaft so as to overlap with a part of the handle. The handle rotation shaft is positioned closer to the cover than the cover rotation shaft so as to overlap with a part of cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Koura, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9918601
    Abstract: An attachment for a blower vacuum device comprising a collection bag; a coupler for removeably coupling the attachment to an air outlet of the blower vacuum device and for directing air from the air outlet into the collection bag; and a rotatable cuff fixed to the collection bag and rotatably mounted to the coupler such that the collection bag is rotatable with respect to the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventor: Clare Tate
  • Patent number: 9874225
    Abstract: A vacuum device has a motor-driven blower wheel with suction side and with pressure side with pressure channel and blow-out opening. An intake pipe at the suction side has an intake opening and a discharge opening at opposed ends. The intake pipe conveys a suction airflow entraining first and second collected materials. Through the discharge opening the first collected material is discharged from the intake pipe. A blower inlet opening is formed in a wall of the intake pipe. Blower inlet opening, blower wheel, and pressure channel are configured such that second collected material passes through blower inlet opening and blower wheel into the pressure channel for discharge through blow-out opening. The blower inlet opening, in longitudinal direction of the intake pipe, is positioned between discharge opening and intake opening at a first spacing to the intake opening and at a second spacing to the discharge opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Langhans, Tilman Seidel, Christoph Hegenbart, Mario Kuschewski, Oliver Schlötzer
  • Patent number: 9629510
    Abstract: The computer keyboard dust vacuum is a vacuum cleaner attachment that sucks dust and debris out from under the keys of a computer keyboard. The computer keyboard dust vacuum includes a main tube, outer sleeve, end cap, and protective screen. The hose of a vacuum cleaner is configured to be inserted in the second end of the main tube to provide suction. The end cap, which is mounted on the first end of the main tube, has holes formed in it that allow the suction from the vacuum cleaner to draw dirt and debris away from the keyboard, through the holes in the end cap towards the vacuum cleaner. The main tube and outer sleeve combine to allow the user to vary the amount of suction provided by the vacuum cleaner to the end cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Inventor: James Willhoyt
  • Patent number: 9510516
    Abstract: A landscaping blower nozzle assembly includes an inlet section for allowing air into the assembly, an elbow section and a motor. A nozzle is insertable into the elbow section such that the motor moves the elbow section in an moveable motion back and forth though at least 180 degree of motion for aiding the operator in the movement and removal of leaves and other debris.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Porta Maker, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristopher D. Shumaker, Jeremy C. Stoddard, Steven J. Leibrandt
  • Patent number: 9408512
    Abstract: A separator for a vacuum cleaner has a cover part from which webs are projecting which are positioned along the circumference of the cover part at a spacing one behind the other with formation of through openings. At least some of the webs are without connection with each other at the end that is facing away from the cover part. The webs are elastically yielding transversely to the longitudinal direction. The webs are positioned in their mounting position with radial pretension on a spider which is fixedly seated on the motor shaft of the vacuum cleaner. Due to centrifugal forces occurring in operation of the vacuum cleaner as a result of the high rotary speed of the motor shaft, the webs of the separator are positioned with their free ends under high force on the spider. The separator is thus reliably entrained by the spider by friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: PROAIR GmbH Gerätebau
    Inventor: Paul Roth
  • Patent number: 9179811
    Abstract: A work apparatus is comprised of a blower unit including a drive motor, a volute casing, a fan rotatably supported within the volute casing and driven by the drive motor, and an airflow duct connected to the volute casing, thereby blowing out or sucking in air through the airflow duct; and of an airflow tube coupled to the airflow duct of the blower unit and having an open distal end for blowing out or sucking in air through the airflow tube. The airflow tube is provided with a grip handle adapted for being held and operated by the operator. Within the airflow tube is arranged an electrically conductive wire at least between the grip handle and the open distal end, beyond which is provided an electrically grounding wire connected to the electrically conductive wire and drooping therefrom to be touchable to earth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ko Fukunaga, Tomonobu Nashimoto, Yoshinori Shibata
  • Patent number: 9107549
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vacuum cleaner having a housing defining first and second ports. The vacuum cleaner also includes a cap assembly. The cap assembly includes a cap head to close the first port such that airflow is directed via a flow path to the second port, a sound-influencing material, the sound-influencing material removably held to the cap head and disposed within the flow path to reduce noise effected by the airflow. The flow path is configured to cause the airflow to pass through the sound-influencing material and the flow path to the second port. The sound-influencing material is removable to allow cleaning of the sound-influencing material. The sound-influencing material may include a reticulated foam roll disposed in the frame to diffuse the discharge airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SHOP VAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert L. Crevling, Jr., James P. Blackwell, Jr., Matthew S. Kepner
  • Publication number: 20150143657
    Abstract: A handheld work apparatus has a blower tube with a blower arranged therein. The blower conveys a working air flow through the blower tube and has an impeller rotatably driven by an electric drive motor. A diffuser is mounted in a stationary manner in the blower tube downstream of the impeller. The motor is arranged in a motor compartment in the blower tube. Downstream of the diffuser, the work apparatus has an extraction opening for cooling air for the drive motor, via which an annular space, formed between the blower tube and the motor compartment, is connected to the motor compartment. The motor compartment has an outflow opening for cooling air arranged upstream of the extraction opening. The extraction opening and the outflow opening are arranged so that during operation the pressure at the extraction opening is greater than the pressure at the outflow opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Cornelius Gindele, Heiko Rosskamp
  • Patent number: 9022038
    Abstract: The various embodiments herein provide an air suction device for a smoking apparatus. The air suction device comprises a cylindrical housing, an impeller, an impeller cover, a motor assembled inside the housing to drive the impeller, a plurality of batteries provided in the housing, a battery cover to enclose the plurality of batteries and a switch provided externally to the cylindrical housing. When the switch is in ON condition, the plurality of batteries supply an electrical power to the motor and the motor converts the electrical power into a mechanical power which in turn causes propulsion of the impeller thereby sucking out the air from a water bowl of the smoking apparatus. The propulsive motion of the impeller sucks out the air from the water bowl until the air inside the water bowl is replaced by condensed smoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Inventors: Mohammad Mahdi Shakouri Moghadam, Mohammad Javad Shakouri Moghadam
  • Publication number: 20150113760
    Abstract: A work apparatus is comprised of a blower unit including a drive motor; a volute casing, a fan rotatably supported within the volute casing and driven by the drive motor, and an airflow duct connected to the volute casing, thereby blowing out or sucking in air through the airflow duct; and of an airflow tube coupled to the airflow duct of the blower unit and having an open distal end for blowing out or sucking in air through the airflow tube. The airflow tube is provided with a grip handle adapted for being held and operated by the operator. Within the airflow tube is arranged an electrically conductive wire at least between the grip handle and the open distal end, beyond which is provided an electrically grounding wire connected to the electrically conductive wire and drooping therefrom to be touchable to earth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ko FUKUNAGA, Tomonobu NASHIMOTO, Yoshinori SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 8966705
    Abstract: A round-shaped lid with a curved edge and domed air outlets to collect leaves with a blower/vacuum in suction mode. The leaves shredded by the blower/vacuum are discharged into a connecting pipe which is attached to a lid inserted into the opening of a large debris collection bag. In particular, the lid has three main openings, one for the entry of debris and two for the air outlet. The connecting pipe is made of ribbed plastic and is held to the lid by the sides of a groove and to the blower/vacuum by a plastic sleeve with cable ties. A piece of thick plastic or metal is placed under a plastic membrane and the debris collection bag in order to protect them during movement over the ground. The debris is collected directly into the bag that will be discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Inventors: William Laliberté, Denis Laliberté
  • Patent number: 8943645
    Abstract: Hand-held blower devices with vacuum function are provided. In this regard, a representative device includes: a housing defining an interior, an intake and an exhaust; an impeller mounted within the interior and being operative to rotate such that air is drawn into the interior through the intake and expelled from the interior through the exhaust; a locking mechanism mounted to the housing, the locking mechanism being movable between an unlocked position and a locked position; and a vacuum tube assembly having an inlet end and an outlet end and defining an air passageway between the inlet end and the outlet end, the outlet end being operative to engage the intake of the housing for the vacuum mode of operation; the locking mechanism being operative to interface with the vacuum tube assembly to retain the outlet end of the vacuum tube assembly in engagement with the intake of the housing for the vacuum mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Husqvarna AB
    Inventors: Jeff Osterchill, Timothy Choate, Danny Sparks, Anna Maria Abdelgalil
  • Patent number: 8931135
    Abstract: A vacuum system having a housing with a hose end, a filter end, and an attachment end, wherein the filter end is at least partially open, having a vacuum mechanism in an inner cavity of the housing which comprises a vacuum fan in an inner channel that extends from the hose end to near a filter end, the vacuum fan is operatively connected to a motor that functions to control the vacuum fan, having a hose which is fluidly connected to the inner channel, having an attachment brace which functions to help attach the outer end of the hose to a computer system, having a filter, having an attachment means which functions to help temporarily attach the housing to a computer system, having a power button operatively connected to the motor which functions to turn the motor on and off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Inventor: Eujene D. Sangster
  • Publication number: 20150000070
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a suction or blower device, comprising a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, a motor accommodated in the housing, a fan driven by the motor, and a plurality of blowing accessories adapted to be connected to the air outlet respectively when the suction or blower device works. These different blowing accessories can perform various cleaning functions, thus meeting the cleaning demands in different places or in a specific area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiabo LIU, Xuefeng YU, Shisong ZHANG, Xiahong DAI, Mingxiang WANG, Jinhua LIU, Feng SHEN, Qimeng AN
  • Patent number: 8918951
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blower vacuum device and in particular to a blower vacuum device for use in the collection of garden debris. The device is preferably one which is operable in a blowing mode to generate an air stream for blowing the debris into piles and also operable in a vacuum mode to suck debris into the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Stones, Jonathan Armstrong
  • Patent number: 8916002
    Abstract: A portable vacuum includes a container having a sidewall, an open bottom portion, an opposing, open top portion and an attachment opening in the sidewall. A bucket is detachably coupled to the container. A vacuum unit is detachably coupled to and closes off the top portion of the container, the vacuum unit having at least one air inlet and at least one air exhaust port. The vacuum unit is operable to selectably generate an air stream entering the air inlet and exiting the air exhaust port. The portable vacuum also includes an elongate, generally hollow suction tube having a first end and an opposing second end, the first end being detachably coupled to the attachment opening of the container. The air stream generates a vacuum at the second end of the suction tube operable to draw waste material into the suction tube, the waste material being deposited in the bucket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Inventor: James Landolt
  • Publication number: 20140331444
    Abstract: A hand held blower/vacuum device includes an impeller mounted in a scroll housing and a handle by which the device may be suspended and which is rotatably mounted to turn between vacuum and blower positions. In both of the blower and vacuum positions a longitudinal axis of the grip generally lies in an upright plane that passes through a centre of gravity of the device, and the grip is disposed above the centre of gravity, such that the device hangs below the grip in different balanced orientations in the blower and vacuum positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Floyd Jeffrey NESOM, Peng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20140310911
    Abstract: An attachment for a blower vacuum device comprising a collection bag; a coupler for removeably coupling the attachment to an air outlet of the blower vacuum device and for directing air from the air outlet into the collection bag; and a rotatable cuff fixed to the collection bag and rotatably mounted to the coupler such that the collection bag is rotatable with respect to the air outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventor: Clare TATE
  • Publication number: 20140215748
    Abstract: A gas discharger connected to a source of pressurized gas comprises a gas channel that is opened to discharge the pressurized gas. A vacuum source can be separately or simultaneously operable with the gas discharger by using the pressurized gas or by using electrical power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Paul Mark Guglielmi, Diana C. Petranek
  • Patent number: 8769769
    Abstract: A floor cleaning apparatus includes a housing that has a top wall and a perimeter wall attached to and extending downwardly from the top wall. The perimeter wall includes a front wall, a rear wall, a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall. A plurality of wheels is rotatably coupled to the housing. Each of the first and second lateral walls has two of the wheels positioned thereon. A brush is mounted to the housing beneath the top wall. A debris catch is mounted in the first lateral wall and catches debris moved by the brush. The brush directs debris toward the debris catch. A handle is attached to and extending upwardly from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventor: Alan Owen
  • Patent number: 8733388
    Abstract: A device is provided for deflating or inflating an item using a vacuum source including a receiving member including an outer open-ended cup with a partial bottom, the bottom including a central aperture, and an outer frustoconical portion extending from the central aperture; an air-flow adjusting member including an inner open-ended substantially cylindrical portion, an inner frustoconical portion extending from the inner open-ended substantially cylindrical portion; a tip member; and means for removably coupling the tip member to the air-flow adjusting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Inventor: Steven S. Gray
  • Patent number: 8713750
    Abstract: A dry-type cleaning chassis includes a chassis part including an opening part in contact with a cleaning target, an air inlet duct provided to blow external air into the internal space; a suction port provided for generating a circulating air flow in the internal space by suctioning air having been introduced into the internal space via the air inlet duct; a porous unit configured to pass objects removed from the cleaning target to a suction port side; and a path limiting member formed of a cylindrical shape extended in an axis center direction of the circulating air flow and configured so that an inside of the cylindrical shape is in communication with the suction port as a suction path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Fuchigami, Yoichi Okamoto, Kohji Tsukahara, Shozo Murata, Yuusuke Taneda