Apparatus for cleaning floors, carpets and the like

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Suction cleaning apparatus comprises a container adapted for the collection of a liquid having an inlet for connection with a suction head adapted for picking up liquid and a suction inlet for connection to a source of suction, air flow through the container between the two inlets being constrained by a downwardly widening funnel which extends from said suction inlet into the interior of the container with a perforate screen across the wider end of the funnel. Generally vertical vanes may be provided within the interior of the funnel together with a float valve. Preferably the, funnel forms part of an annular reservoir for a cleaning liquid and the apparatus incorporates means for …