Nozzle for hand-held vacuum
CA 1180516 A · Owner: Shop-Vac Corporation · Inventors: Strouse, Kerry E.; Miller, Jonathan; Fegan, Richard M.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A portable vacuum cleaner having a nozzle extending from the housing and a dust bag supported within the nozzle. The nozzle consists of two longitudinal sections one of which is an extension of the housing and the other of which is removable, to permit insertion removal and replacement of the dust bag and may also be, locked in position. To lock the removable portion of the nozzle, there is a retainer for the housing end of the removable section and a tubular member which has a modified breech block type of locking flange at its front. The inner portion of the tubular member supports the dust bag in the nozzle. The locking flange is placed on a tab extending from the section of the nozzle …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted January 8, 1985. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 8, 2002.
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