Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has an air treatment chamber which has an axis extending between the front and rear ends of the air treatment chamber. An openable door is rotatably moveable to an open position in which an opening is provided and dirt collected by the hand vacuum cleaner is emptyable through the opening. A rotational mount is provided at a first end of the openable door and an opposed second end is moveable to enable the hand vacuum cleaner to be emptied through the opening, wherein in the closed position, the opposed second end is located at the front end of the hand vacuum cleaner. A latch releasable secures the door in the closed position. An axial projection of the dirty air inlet extends centrally through the air treatment chamber and the axis on the inlet conduit extends in a common direction with the air treatment chamber axis.

Abstract: A surface cleaner has a surface cleaning head and an upright section having a drive handle. The upright section is moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between an upright storage position and a reclined in use position. The surface cleaner comprises a non-cyclonic momentum separator and an air treatment stage that is downstream from the non-cyclonic momentum separator. The non-cyclonic momentum separator liquid separation chamber comprises a separated liquid storage region that is separated from a liquid separation chamber by a porous wall. In operation, liquid separated in the liquid separation chamber travels through the separated liquid outlet to the separated liquid storage region and solid material is retained in the liquid separation chamber. The air treatment stage comprising an air treatment chamber and a separated solid storage region. The separated liquid storage region is emptyable independent of emptying the separated solid storage region.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner comprises a cyclone, a conical pre-motor filter that is positioned rearward of the cyclone and a suction motor. The pre-motor filter has a front end that faces that faces towards the cyclone air outlet. The conical pre-motor filter has an open interior volume, an outer surface, which is an upstream surface of the pre-motor filter, and an inner surface, which is a downstream surface of the pre-motor filter.

Abstract: A system comprising a vacuum cleaner and a dock for receiving debris from a debris collection region of the vacuum cleaner. The debris collection region of the vacuum cleaner is removably positionable in a docked configuration in which the debris collection region is in air flow communication with the inlet port wherein, in the docked configuration, an openable door of the debris collection region of the vacuum cleaner is sealed in flow communication with the dock. In the docked configuration with the system in an emptying mode of operation, debris that has been accumulated in the debris collection region of the vacuum cleaner travels to the dock debris collection region. In the docked configuration with the system is in the emptying mode of operation, the debris collection region of the vacuum cleaner is exposed to sub-atmospheric pressure that is produced by a motor and fan assembly of the vacuum cleaner.

Abstract: A combination of a hand vacuum cleaner and a floor standing unit. The hand vacuum cleaner is positionable in a docked configuration, in which the hand vacuum cleaner is docked with the floor standing unit and in which the floor standing unit is positioned on a floor. In the docked configuration with an openable door of an air treatment assembly of the hand vacuum cleaner opened, dirt collected in the dirt collection region of the air treatment assembly is transferrable to a dirt collection chamber of the floor standing unit. Further, in the docked configuration, a horizontal plane, which is generally transverse to the main body axis of the hand vacuum cleaner, extends through a rear wall of the dock and the air treatment chamber.

Abstract: A combination of a surface cleaner comprising and a dock. The surface cleaner is operable in a cleaning mode wherein air is drawn in through the dirty air inlet of the surface cleaner and through the air treatment chamber of the surface cleaner to the clean air outlet of the surface cleaner, and dirt is collected in the dirt collection region of the surface cleaner. The surface cleaner is also operable in a dirt emptying mode wherein air travels from the suction motor of the surface cleaner and through the outlet port of an air treatment unit of the surface cleaner prior to travelling through the docking station air flow path. The suction motor of the surface cleaner induces the air flow in each of the cleaning mode and the emptying mode.

Abstract: A dock for receiving dirt from a dirt collection region of a vacuum cleaner. The dock has an air flow passage from an inlet port to a clean air outlet; an air treatment member positioned in the air flow passage downstream from the inlet port, the air treatment member comprising a dock dirt collection region; and, a release actuator which engages a portion of the vacuum cleaner whereby the lock is moved to an unlocked position in which the lock is disengaged from an openable door of a dirt collection region of the vacuum cleaner and the openable door is moveable to the open position. In a docked configuration and in an emptying mode of operation, a motor and fan assembly produces a flow of air that conveys dirt from the dirt collection region of the vacuum cleaner through the inlet port to the air treatment member of the dock.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclonic stage which comprises a stationary portion and an openable portion. The openable portion is rotatably mounted by a rotatable mount between a closed position in which a cyclone chamber is closed and an open position in which the cyclone chamber is open. The stationary portion comprises an upper portion of the first cyclonic stage and the openable portion comprises a lower portion of the first cyclonic stage. The rotatable mount is located at a rearward end of the openable portion.

Abstract: A cyclone comprises a cyclone chamber having a first end, a second end and a sidewall extending between the first and second ends. The air inlet and the air outlet are provided at the first end. The first end has a first end wall that extends between the air inlet and the air outlet. The first end wall is concave when view from within the cyclone chamber.

Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus having an upright section moveable relative to a surface cleaning head between a storage position and a rearwardly reclined floor cleaning position. The upright section comprising a removable hand vacuum cleaner. The hand vacuum cleaner is operable in a first mode of operation in which the surface cleaning apparatus is operated to clean a floor, the inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner is in flow communication with the surface cleaning head air outlet and the air treatment member of the hand vacuum cleaner is operable to treat air drawn in through the dirty air inlet of the surface cleaning head. The hand vacuum cleaner is also operable in a second mode of operation in which the hand vacuum cleaner is operable to directly clean a floor or the air inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner is directly connected to the downstream end of an accessory tool.

Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus has a rotatably mounted brush. The brush has first and second microfiber pads separated by bristles.

Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus comprising a surface cleaning head, the surface cleaning head comprising a first liquid separation stage comprising a cyclone having a cyclone axis of rotation, a cyclone first end, an axially spaced apart second end, a cyclone air inlet, a cyclone air outlet and an axially extending sidewall wherein a portion of the sidewall comprises a screen and, when the surface cleaning apparatus is in use to clean a floor, the cyclone axis of rotation extends generally horizontally and, a first liquid collection region that is positioned at a lower elevation than the screen.

Abstract: A fan coil for a single unit in a multi-unit building has hot and cold riser stacks. Heating and cooling closed loop fluid flow paths thermally connect the fan coil in thermal communication with the hot and cold riser stacks, respectively. The fan coil has a housing that houses heating and cooling heat exchangers in thermal communication with the heating and cooling closed loop fluid flow paths, respectively. A fan in the housing may draw ambient air through the fan coil. In a heating mode, the air collects heat from the heating heat exchanger and in a cooling mode, the air is cooled by the cooling heat exchanger. The heated or cooled air exits the fan coil and enters a room.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a dirt separator comprising a first air treatment stage and a second air treatment stage, the first air treatment stage comprising a first air treatment chamber and the second air treatment stage comprises a second stage air treatment chamber. An openable door opens the first air treatment chamber when the door is in an open position. The front door has a diameter and the rear end of the first air treatment chamber stage has a diameter that is generally equal to the diameter of the front door. The sidewall of the first air treatment stage is moveable with respect to the suction motor and, when the sidewall is moved with respect to the suction motor, the front openable door and the dirty air inlet also move with the sidewall.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a housing comprising a first portion that houses a suction motor. A cyclone unit is positioned in an air flow passage upstream from the suction motor. The cyclone unit comprises a cyclone and a dirt collection region that is positioned forward of the cyclone. The cyclone unit front end has an openable door. The cyclone air outlet comprises an assembly which includes a screen. The assembly is moveable relative to the cyclone unit sidewall in a common direction with the cyclone axis of rotation whereby the assembly and the sidewall are separable from each other in a forward direction.

Abstract: A fan assembly comprising a plurality of nested components comprising a first stator; a first rotor that is radially spaced from the first stator, wherein the first rotor is magnetically driven by the first stator, the first rotor includes a second stator whereby the second stator rotates with the first rotor; a second rotor that is radially spaced from the second stator, wherein the second rotor is magnetically driven by the second stator; and, a fan blade drivenly connected to the second rotor.

Abstract: A cooking appliance including a combustion zone and a cooking zone. The combustion zone has a combustion zone air flow path extending from a combustion zone air inlet to a combustion zone air outlet. The cooking zone overlies the combustion zone, and the cooking zone includes a closed cooking volume having a cooking surface and an openable lid. Combustion products produced in the combustion zone are isolated from the closed cooking volume.

Abstract: A surface cleaner has a surface cleaning head having a solid collection chamber that is separated from a surface cleaning head liquid collection chamber by a porous divider wherein, in use, the solid collection chamber is positioned at a lower elevation than the surface cleaning head liquid collection chamber. An upright section is moveably mountable to the surface cleaning head between an upright storage position and a reclined surface cleaning position, wherein the upright section comprises a cleaning liquid reservoir and an upright section liquid collection reservoir. The upright surface cleaner is operable in a floor cleaning mode in which liquid is collected in the surface cleaning head liquid collection chamber and in the upright section liquid collection reservoir, and the upright surface cleaner is operable in an above floor cleaning mode in which liquid is collected in the upright section liquid collection reservoir.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has an air treatment chamber and a main body which houses a suction motor which has a motor axis of rotation which extends in a common direction with the central longitudinally extending axis. A pistol grip handle having an upper end that is provided on the main body, a lower end and a handle axis that extends centrally through the pistol grip handle from the lower end of the pistol grip handle to the upper end of the pistol grip handle wherein the handle axis intersects the suction motor. The hand vacuum cleaner has a front openable door, which comprises a front wall of the air treatment chamber. The front door is moveable between a closed position and an open position, wherein an air inlet conduit is moveable with the front door.

Abstract: A dirt collection region of the vacuum cleaner is removably positionable in air flow communication with an inlet port of an apparatus in which the openable door of the dirt collection region of the vacuum cleaner is positioned interior the apparatus. The apparatus has an air treatment member. When the apparatus is standing on the floor, the apparatus has an upper end which has the inlet port. When the dirt collection region of the vacuum cleaner positioned in flow communication with the inlet port of the apparatus and when the system is in the emptying mode of operation, a motor and fan assembly of the vacuum cleaner moves air from the dirt collection region of the vacuum cleaner as dirt, which has been accumulated in the dirt collection region of the vacuum cleaner, travels to the air treatment member of the apparatus.