US 12,108,921 B2
Vacuum cleaner
David Mobarak, Germantown, WI (US); Justin D. Dorman, Wauwatosa, WI (US); and Tauhira Hoossainy, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed by MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/151,392.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/572,220, filed on Oct. 13, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0110650 A1, Apr. 18, 2019
Int. Cl. A47L 5/36 (2006.01); A45F 3/00 (2006.01); A45F 3/14 (2006.01); A47L 5/22 (2006.01); A47L 9/00 (2006.01); A47L 9/16 (2006.01); A47L 9/28 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 5/365 (2013.01) [A45F 3/14 (2013.01); A47L 5/225 (2013.01); A47L 5/36 (2013.01); A47L 9/0018 (2013.01); A47L 9/1666 (2013.01); A47L 9/1683 (2013.01); A47L 9/1691 (2013.01); A47L 9/2884 (2013.01); A45F 2003/003 (2013.01); A45F 2003/146 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vacuum cleaner comprising:
a vacuum body assembly including
a housing having
a base end,
a top end opposite the base end, and
a longitudinal direction extending through the base end and the top end;
a mount hook connected to the housing, the mount hook movable translationally relative to the housing in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the housing, the mount hook movable from a collapsed position to a deployed position;
a debris container removably coupled to the housing; and a handle separate from the mount hook, wherein the handle is located at the top end;
a suction source configured to draw air into the debris container;
a harness assembly removably connected to the vacuum body assembly; and
wherein the vacuum cleaner is convertible between
a carry mode, the harness assembly connected to the vacuum body assembly in the carry mode, the harness assembly configured to be worn by a user, the mount hook in the collapsed position in the carry mode;
a stand mode, the base end of the vacuum body assembly configured to rest on a support surface in the stand mode, the top end located above the base end in the stand mode; and
a hang mode, the mount hook of the vacuum body assembly in the deployed position and configured to hang the vacuum body assembly from a mount structure in the hang mode, the top end located above the base end in the hang mode.