US 12,302,859 B2
Portable pet grooming system
Jeremy W. Hoffmann, Comstock Park, MI (US); and Brian Robert Dexter, Grand Rapids, MI (US)
Assigned to BISSELL Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US)
Filed by BISSELL Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US)
Filed on May 29, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/676,707.
Application 18/676,707 is a continuation of application No. 18/085,027, filed on Dec. 20, 2022, granted, now 12,022,800.
Application 18/085,027 is a continuation of application No. 16/990,171, filed on Aug. 11, 2020, granted, now 11,559,039, issued on Jan. 24, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/890,165, filed on Aug. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0306602 A1, Sep. 19, 2024
Int. Cl. A01K 13/00 (2006.01); A47L 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 13/001 (2013.01) [A47L 7/0009 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaning system, comprising:
a portable module including a housing, a fluid delivery system configured to store and deliver cleaning fluid, and a recovery system configured to remove liquid and debris from a surface to be cleaned; and
a conduit assembly comprising a delivery conduit in fluid communication with the fluid delivery system and a suction conduit in fluid communication with the recovery system;
wherein the recovery system comprises:
a recovery pathway having an air inlet and an air outlet;
a recovery tank configured to receive recovered liquid and debris for later disposal, wherein the suction conduit is in fluid communication with an inlet of the recovery tank;
a suction source configured to generate a working air stream through the recovery pathway, wherein the suction source comprises a vacuum motor, a working air fan operably coupled with the vacuum motor and configured to draw working air through the recovery pathway, and a cooling air fan operably coupled with the vacuum motor and configured to draw motor cooling air through a motor-cooling pathway;
a cooling air inlet for the motor-cooling pathway formed in the housing;
a cooling air outlet for the motor-cooling pathway formed in the housing; and
an enclosure for the suction source having at least one cooling air intake opening formed in a portion of the enclosure;
wherein at least one of the air outlet, the cooling air inlet, and the cooling air outlet is disposed on a side of the enclosure lacking the at least one cooling air intake opening.