Surface cleaning apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10716448-B2
Application number	US-201715851958-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2017
Priority date	Sep 15, 2017
Publication date	Jul 21, 2020
Grant date	Jul 21, 2020

Abstract

A surface cleaning apparatus, such as an extractor, has a liquid delivery system operable to alternately deliver a carpet cleaning solution and a hard floor cleaning solution.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
a) a liquid delivery system operable to alternately deliver a carpet cleaning solution comprising a first chemical and a hard floor cleaning solution comprising a second chemical different to the first chemical; and,
b) an actuator operably connected to the cleaning solution delivery system
wherein the liquid delivery system further comprises a water reservoir, a hard floor cleaning concentrate container and a carpet cleaning concentrate container, and
wherein, in a hard floor cleaning actuation mode, the cleaning solution delivery system delivers the hard floor cleaning solution prepared from water in the water reservoir and a hard floor cleaning concentrate in the hard floor cleaning concentrate container to at least one delivery nozzle and in a carpet cleaning actuation mode, the cleaning solution delivery system delivers the carpet cleaning solution prepared from water in the water reservoir and a carpet cleaning concentrate in the carpet cleaning concentrate container to the at least one delivery nozzle.

2. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the actuator is manually operated by a user.

3. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the actuator comprises a detector operable to determine a surface that is being cleaned.

4. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the liquid delivery system further comprises a carpet cleaning concentrate delivery line extending from the carpet cleaning solution reservoir to the at least one delivery nozzle and a hard floor cleaning solution delivery line extending from the hard floor concentrate reservoir to the at least one delivery nozzle.

5. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the at least one delivery nozzle comprises at least one hard floor delivery nozzle and at least one carpet delivery nozzle and the carpet cleaning concentrate delivery line extends from the carpet cleaning concentrate reservoir to the at least one carpet delivery nozzle and the hard floor cleaning concentrate delivery line extend from the hard floor concentrate reservoir to the at least one hard floor delivery nozzle.

6. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the carpet cleaning concentrate reservoir is removable from the surface cleaning apparatus with the carpet cleaning concentrate delivery line and the hard floor cleaning concentrate reservoir is removable from the surface cleaning apparatus with the hard floor cleaning concentrate delivery line.

7. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 , wherein each of the carpet cleaning concentrate reservoir and the hard floor cleaning concentrate reservoir are removable from the surface cleaning apparatus.

8. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the liquid delivery system further comprises a mixer chamber, a carpet cleaning concentrate delivery line extending from the carpet cleaning concentrate container, a hard floor cleaning concentrate delivery line extending from the hard floor concentrate container and a water delivery line extending from the water reservoir, wherein the carpet cleaning concentrate delivery line, the hard floor cleaning concentrate delivery line and the water delivery line are in fluid communication with a mixer nozzle.

9. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the carpet cleaning concentrate delivery line, the hard floor cleaning concentrate delivery line and the water delivery line each extend to a position selected from an inlet end of the mixer chamber or a position adjacent the inlet end of the mixer chamber.

10. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the mixer chamber is upstream of the at least one delivery nozzle.

11. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the at least one pump comprises a peristaltic pump.

12. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the at least one delivery nozzle comprises the mixer chamber.

13. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 8 , further comprising at least one pump operably coupled to an exterior of each of the carpet cleaning concentrate delivery line and the hard floor cleaning concentrate delivery line.

14. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the liquid delivery system mixes the hard floor cleaning concentrate with water at a first concentrate to water rate and mixes the carpet cleaning concentrate container with water at a second concentrate to water rate that differs to the first rate.

15. The surface cleaning apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the cleaning solution delivery system is also operable to deliver clean water to the at least one delivery nozzle.

Assignees

• Omachron Intellectual Property Inc

Inventors

• Conrad Wayne Ernest
• Petersen Dave
• Conrad Nina
• Innes Daniel
• Udy Adam
• Burke Brian Christopher

Classifications

• B01D50/20

  Combinations of devices covered by groups B01D45/00 and B01D46/00 · CPC title

• A47L11/4083

  Liquid supply reservoirs; Preparation of the agents, e.g. mixing devices · CPC title

• B04C2009/002

  with external filters · CPC title

• B01D2279/55

  for cleaning appliances, e.g. suction cleaners · CPC title

• A47L9/1666

  with filtering means · CPC title