Vacuum cleaner
CA 2355073 A1 · Owner: Dyson, James · Inventors: Burlington, Geoffrey Michael; Dyson, James
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The invention provides a vacuum cleaner (10) having a chassis (12) supporting , wheels (14) mounted on the chassis (12) drive means (15) connected to the , supporting wheels (14) for driving the supporting wheels (14) and a control mechanism for controlling the drive means (15) so as to guide the vacuum cleaner (10) across a surface to be cleaned. A cleaner head (22) having a dirty air inlet (24) facing the surface to be cleaned is mounted on the chassis (12) and separating apparatus (52) is supported by the chassis (12) and communicates with the cleaner head (22) for separating dirt and dust from an airflow entering the vacuum cleaner (10) by way of the dirty air inlet (24). The …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 6, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 6, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 6, 2021.
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