Abstract: A disposable filter bag accommodating tray insertable through an opening in a vacuum cleaner includes a front wall closing the cleaner opening and features absence of a tray rear wall permitting rearrangement of bag shape during tray withdrawl to minimize bag rupture and easy bag disposal by simply inverting the tray.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner housing possesses two guide means on the inner side of the end housing wall with a suction port therein in order to receive the board flange of a dust bag adjacent to the lateral housing wall. The guide means comprise guide rails each with a ramp-like wall, extending towards said housing wall, and guide ribs which are located in the lower part of the housing wall and have a slope opposite to that of the ramp-like walls. They are so shaped as to allow the board flange to be inserted between them and the walls. On introduction of such a board flange of a dust bag its lower end section is bent along a prepared line of bending, which has been formed in the lower part of the board flange parallel to its lower side. Accordingly the board flange is so firmly held in place that it is not bent by the suction force to which it is exposed.

Abstract: A bag is shown for use with an upright vacuum cleaner of the type having a motor fan contained in a main housing for producing an air flow out an air duct of the housing. The bag includes a flexible body having side walls formed of an air pervious material which define a normally closed interior and a mouth opening. The mouth opening of the flexible body is secured to the air duct of the main housing to produce an air flow through the flexible body for exhaust to the atmosphere. An oscillator tube, formed of a flexible material, has an interior, an open end at one extent and an intake opening at the opposite extent. The intake opening is arranged to communicate with the mouth opening of the bag body so that the air flow from the main housing passes through the oscillator tube and causes oscillations, the oscillations of the tube serving to vibrate the bag and prevent the buildup of dirt on the bag interior side walls.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner construction having a filter bag mount movably mounted to the base of the vacuum cleaner canister. Biasing structure is provided for causing the bag mount to extend into an obstructing disposition relative to the hood of the canister preventing closing of the hood in the absence of a filter bag being mounted to the bag mount. Mounting of the filter bag to the bag mount causes a movement of the bag mount against the biasing structure to a lowered disposition within the dirt-collecting space of the canister base, permitting the hood to be closed. The bag mount includes improved sealing structure for facilitated sealed connection of a suction hose end thereto, with the hood maintained in a closed disposition. The bag mount includes an annular seal for sealing the hose connection thereto and an annular flange for removably securing the filter bag mounting plate thereto.

Abstract: An improved pool cleaner is provided of the type for submerged random travel generally along the floor and sidewalls of a swimming pool to dislodge and collect debris. The pool cleaner comprises an hydraulically contoured housing consisting of a limited number of shell shaped housing portions designed for rapid assembly about an integrated drive assembly having a water-powered drive train encased within the housing and rotatable wheels outside the housing for supporting and driving the pool cleaner. Water under pressure is supplied through a water supply mast detachably mounted on the housing for flow into a pressure manifold from which individual water flows are coupled through appropriately sized nozzles to drive a water turbine of the drive train and through a plurality of jet pump orifices opening generally upwardly about the inner diameter of an open central suction mast through which debris is drawn upwardly into a collection bag.

Abstract: An improved pool cleaner is provided of the type for submerged random travel generally along the floor and sidewalls of a swimming pool to dislodge and collect debris. The pool cleaner comprises an hydraulically contoured housing consisting of a limited number of shell shaped housing portions designed for rapid assembly about an integrated drive assembly having a water-powered drive train encased within the housing and rotatable wheels outside the housing for supporting and driving the pool cleaner. Water under pressure is supplied through a water supply mast detachably mounted on the housing for flow into a pressure manifold from which individual water flows are coupled through appropriately sized nozzles to drive a water turbine of the drive train and through a plurality of jet pump orifices opening generally upwardly about the inner diameter of an open central suction mast through which debris is drawn upwardly into a collection bag.

Abstract: A dirt collecting bag is disclosed having a face plate or collar with a slotted configuration along one of its edges to aid in mechanical transfer of it from a storage magazine to a bag mounting and transfer apparatus in a vacuum cleaner.

Abstract: A floor care appliance having a filter bag with an inlet chamber accessed by an inlet aperture, and a quiescent storage chamber connected to the inlet chamber by an opening adjacent the top thereof. The filter bag is formed of filter sheet material as an elongate tubular member having the opposite ends folded and sealed to define an air impermeable seal. An inlet aperture extends into the interior of the tubular member adjacent one end thereof and the tubular member is folded upon itself spaced from the other end thereof with confronting portions of the tubular member being sealed together and including an opening adjacent the fold between the confronting portions to maintain an open air path from the inlet aperture to the other end of the filter bag.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner bag for use with top loading vacuum cleaner has a first collection tube and a second transfer tube, the tubes having communicating apertures near the top thereof, with a thermoplastic coating on the inner walls of the second transfer tube which is fused together to seal the second transfer tube adjacent the lower wall of the aperture thereof, the top and bottom of the first tube and bottom of the second transfer tube adhesively sealed; and a method for automatically forming the bags by superimposing the two tubes, adhesively securing them together, heat sealing the inner walls of the second transfer tube together, below the aperture, and closing the ends of the tubes.

Abstract: An arrangement for fastening filter candles and filter apparatus provided therewith includes a collecting pipe which is composed of several T-shaped pipe pieces. Each of the pipe pieces has a substantially horizontal portion and extending therefrom a second portion which has a free end part provided with a groove. Each of the filter candles has an upper part provided with a flange portion which is engageable into the groove to obtain a tight attachment of the filter candle to the collecting pipe.

Abstract: A connector for connecting a filter bag to the suction inlet of a vacuum cleaner. The filter bag connector includes a dirt interceptor extending across the air flow path from the suction inlet to intercept high speed dirt particles at the center and upper center portion of the air flow path, absorb kinetic energy therefrom, and deliver the intercepted dirt particles into the substantially unimpeded lower and side portions of the air flow path for delivery with the slower moving dirt particles therein freely into the filter bag. Resultingly, abrasion of the filter bag is effectively minimized for providing extended useful life of the filter bag. In the illustrated embodiment, the dirt interceptor includes an upper flat portion and a lower flat portion extending at different angles to the perpendicular to the flow path. In the illustrated embodiment, the dirt interceptor tapers across its width and in thickness toward the distal end thereof.

Abstract: Effluent with entrained particles is drawn through a filter module (A) by an exhaust blower (B). The filter module includes an inertial separator (C) for providing an inertial separation of particles from the effluent air and a plurality of filter cartridges (D) which allow air to pass therethrough but not particles. A plenum E interconnects the filter cartridges with the exhaust blower to channel the filtered air from the filter module to the exhaust blower. A flow controller (F) controls the flow rate of air through each of the filter cartridges maintaining it substantially constant. The flow controller includes a flow rate sensor for sensing the flow rate through each filter cartridge and a butterfly damper blade for selectively restricting the plenum to maintain the flow rate substantially constant. A filter cartridge cleaner (G) is selectively actuated when the flow controller is unable to maintain a preselected minimum flow rate.

Abstract: A baghouse filter having a filter chamber separated by a partition between the clean gas side and the dirty gas side. The partition has a plurality of apertures, in each of which is mounted a filter unit for removal and replacement. The housing has an access opening to permit access to the interior of the housing and the opening is sufficiently large to permit withdrawal of the partition from the housing through the opening so as to permit replacement of the filter units exteriorly of the housing. In the present instance, the partition of the housing is mounted on a door closing the access opening, so that the displacement of the access door from the housing automatically displaces the partition from the housing to permit removal and replacement of the filter units. The filter unit assemblies permit mounting of the filter units from the dirty gas side of the partition with suitable sealing to prevent unfiltered gaseous medium from bypassing of the filter units.

Abstract: There is disclosed a quick-connect-disconnect coupling for attaching a flexible dirt-receiving bag to the handle of an upright vacuum cleaner. The coupling includes first and second coupling members, respectively, which are rigidly attached to the handle and to the bag, with the second member rigidly supporting at least a major portion of a bag-supporting casing as a cantilever. The first coupling member defines a pocket in which there is provided a fixed member and a movable member. The movable member is biased toward the fixed member, and the second coupling member is adapted to be releasably inserted between the fixed and movable members. The movable and fixed members cooperate with the second coupling member to define a one-way ratchet which is releasable upon movement of the movable member away from the fixed member.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner dust bag with a relatively rigid collar having an inlet opening for an inlet tube connected to a vacuum cleaner housing. The opening is covered by an apertured elastic diaphragm. The opening of the dust bag is further provided with a large zone and a small zone, which are integral, so that the inlet tube can be inserted through the large zone and the dust bag displaced laterally so that a peripheral flange on the inlet tube will engage with surrounding portions of the diaphragm aperture disposed in the small zone. The dust bag is moved to and retained in this position by the elastic diaphragm whose aperture is disposed centrally relative to said small zone.

Abstract: A filter for use within a storm drain sump which has a fluid outlet through a wall of the sump, the filter includes a bag-like body member having a cylindrical body portion fabricated from resilient mesh-like synthetic material. A base portion of the filter defines a toroid-shaped section. A weighted material is placed within the toroid-shaped section. Wedge-shaped spacers are axially aligned and secured to an outer face of the cylindrical body portion of the filter. A suspension plate is secured to the body member to support the filter in the storm drain sump.

Abstract: A filter installation for a filter housing including a header plate having an aperture of a predetermined diameter, a tubular filter, a venturi-like member extending through the aperture into one end of the filter, an annular shoulder on said member having an outermost diameter at least substantially the same as the diameter of the plate aperture, and a collar having an interior diameter less than the outermost diameter of the shoulder and surrounding the filter, said collar being releasably secured to the plate and retaining a portion of the filter between the plate and the collar to secure the filter to the plate.

Abstract: A floor care appliance is described in which a rigid housing may extend upwardly from the appliance nozzle. The rigid housing may mount a reel therein or may just serve as an appearance housing for the floor care appliance. In either case, the rear of the housing mounts a rigid plate that extends upwardly from it. An upper fill tube has its upper end attached to this plate. The cloth bag for the floor care appliance extends around the fill tube and is mounted to the housing, intermediate its upper and lower ends, by the rigid plate. The cloth bag thereby encapsulates the rigid plate and fill tube so as to provide a pleasing outside appearance to the floor care appliance.

Abstract: A device for forming demonstration cleaning-test bags and for attaching them to vacuum cleaners comprises basically a cylindrical tube adapted for placement over the air-discharge port of a sweeper, and a co-operating plunger for pushing the central area of a flexible filter cloth or sheet into the tube. The end of the plunger has fixed thereto a hook-type VELCRO disc for engagement with a co-operating loop-type VELCRO disc cemented or stitched centrally of the filter sheet. Thus the inserted sheet can be turned inside-out to form a bag but after the sheet margin has been anchored to the outer lip surface of the cylindrical tube by a contracting coil-spring band which is rolled thereover from an annular plunger seat encircling said lip. For adjustment to different sizes of bag-forming sheets, the band-holding plunger-seat can be slidable along the plunger, or the plunger body can be length-adjustably formed from telescoping sections.

Abstract: Holder for an annular filter includes a support frame or basket with a flared portion at its upper end which cooperates with the inner leg of an inverted U-shaped sealing ring to clamp the upper end of the filter. The sealing ring has its outer leg seated on a sealing gasket positioned on top of a support plate surrounding an aperture through which the filter is lowered during operation of a particle collection apparatus. The holder is replaceably sealed in position by screwing a pair of threaded rings together to force the flared portion downwardly. The diameters of the various parts are larger than the aperture to prevent them from being dropped through the aperture and the overall design is such that the filters can be replaced from the upper clean side of the collection apparatus rather than the lower dirty side.

Abstract: Disclosed is a clamping means for securing filter bags in a bag filter device. The bag filter device has a filter chamber separated from a plenum chamber by means of a partition having openings therein through which the filter bags extend from the plenum chamber into the filter chamber. Gas to be filtered is passed into the filter chamber and flows through the walls of the filter bags from the outside to the inside thereof and thence into the plenum chamber prior to being discharged from the filter device as cleaned gas. The partition has a stationary shoulder surrounding each opening on the plenum chamber side. The open end or cuff of each filter bag is clamped between the shoulder and a clamping ring so as to secure the filter bag in the partition and to effect a seal which prevents leakage of unfiltered gas into the plenum chamber from the filter chamber. The seal is maintained by the influence of gravity or by a seating or force-applying means.

Abstract: A filter bag assembly for a vacuum cleaner is disclosed. The assembly includes an elongated, relatively rigid, hollow tube coupled at one end to the exhaust of a vacuum cleaner. The tube runs upwardly along the handle of the vacuum cleaner and is attached at its other end to a porous filter bag. The filter bag runs downwardly along the rigid tube and has an open end closed by a nonporous dirt-collecting bag. The tube, the porous bag, and the nonporous bag are encased in an envelope so that the nonporous bag is held in a collapsed or stored condition at the end of the filter bag during normal use of the cleaner. To empty the filter bag of its collected dirt, the envelope is opened to expose the nonporous bag and to permit the dirt in the filter bag to drop downwardly into the nonporous bag. The vacuum cleaner may be turned on and off a number of times to distend the bag and dislodge dirt from the filter bag during the emptying operation.

Abstract: A trap accessory, for selective coupling between a suction conduit and an aspirator includes: an elongated housing having a through passage; an elongated retainer slidably received in the housing passage, and having a through passage; and a filter element retained in the housing passage by said retainer. The housing is provided with a coupling nipple for coupling to a complementary coupling orifice in the suction conduit; and the retainer is provided with a coupling orifice for coupling to a complementary coupling nipple of the aspirator. The suction conduit and suction appliance have complementary coupling members, and are adapted to be coupled directly together in the absence of the trap accessory.

Abstract: An improved filter bag mounting assembly for fabric type dust collectors compositely constituted of a selectively shaped mounting and filter media supporting member adapted for removable insertion in a complementally sized receiving aperture in a tube sheet, a filter media sheathed retainer assembly terminally connected at one end, in releasably latched gas tight relation to the mounting member and a closure plug disposed in the other terminal end of said media sheathed retainer and secured thereto in releasable gas tight latched relation.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner filter bag for an upright vacuum cleaner comprising an air pervious filter receptacle and an air impervious feed tube interconnected together so that the interior of the filter receptacle is in air-flowing relationship with the interior of the feed tube, where the feed tube is adapted to be connected to the vacuum cleaner. A collar is intermediately disposed within the filter receptacle and secured therein by a clamping ring disposed externally of the filter receptacle in juxtaposition with an upper portion of the collar. An air impervious dust receptacle is removably disposed within a lower portion of the filter receptacle with a mouth portion of the dust receptacle being disposed about a lower end of the collar. A resiliently expandable ring releasably secures the dust receptacle mouth portion about the collar so that the dust receptacle is maintained in an open mouth suspended condition within the filter receptacle to receive and collect debris introduced into the filter receptacle.

Abstract: An improvement in air filtering apparatus of the type having means for providing intermittent reverse flow of air through the filter media of the apparatus to dislodge any accumulations of material from the filter media. Such apparatus is conventionally formed with a collecting air chamber receiving the air to be filtered, which is then fed to a filtered air chamber separated from the collecting chamber by a grid plate with air passages therethrough. Filter media such as filter bags or the like are arranged in the grid plate air passages to filter the air passing through to the filtered air chamber. The invention provides an improved air plenum blower fan arrangement providing a relatively straight reverse air flow path from the fan discharge to improve the efficiency of air transfer between the fan and the filter media to effect desired cleaning of the filter media.