EP1327411B1 - Pièce de raccordement pour sac filtrant à poussière d'un aspirateur - Google Patents

Pièce de raccordement pour sac filtrant à poussière d'un aspirateur Download PDF

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EP1327411B1
EP1327411B1 EP02024717A EP02024717A EP1327411B1 EP 1327411 B1 EP1327411 B1 EP 1327411B1 EP 02024717 A EP02024717 A EP 02024717A EP 02024717 A EP02024717 A EP 02024717A EP 1327411 B1 EP1327411 B1 EP 1327411B1
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Herbert Krehan
Uwe Schmierer
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/14—Bags or the like; Rigid filtering receptacles; Attachment of, or closures for, bags or receptacles
    • A47L9/1427—Means for mounting or attaching bags or filtering receptacles in suction cleaners; Adapters
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/14—Bags or the like; Rigid filtering receptacles; Attachment of, or closures for, bags or receptacles
    • A47L9/1427—Means for mounting or attaching bags or filtering receptacles in suction cleaners; Adapters
    • A47L9/1436—Connecting plates, e.g. collars, end closures
    • A47L9/1445—Connecting plates, e.g. collars, end closures with closure means

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  • the invention relates to a plate-like flat shape exhibiting fitting of a dust filter bag, which is inserted into a vacuum cleaner, which has a connecting piece and on both sides of the connecting piece in each case a guide device for inserting the respectively facing edge portion of the connector in the insertion direction, wherein the connecting piece is tapered towards the free end of the socket Outward shape, with a connecting piece passing through the connection opening, which passes during insertion of the thereby bulging on the connecting piece fitting in the guide means to the connection piece, so that the connection piece deformed back to its initial position and the connection piece engages in the connection opening.
  • the connecting piece In the state of a dust filter bag inserted into a vacuum cleaner, the connecting piece should terminate as close as possible to the peripheral edge of the connection opening or against an annular seal of the connecting piece protruding into the connection opening and consisting of rubber-like elastic film material in order to prevent the escape of dust.
  • the connector In order to obtain the required "bias", the connector is inserted into the device-side guide device and thereby pushed over the front of the guide device projecting connection piece, so that the fitting first bulges and then snaps back on the connection piece, so that this protrudes into the connection opening.
  • the present invention is therefore an object of the invention to provide a fitting of the type mentioned, which can be removed without the described problems from the Staübsaug réelle.
  • connection piece slides along the conical lateral surface of the connecting piece by means of the sliding element, until the connection piece has emerged from the connection opening.
  • the measures according to the invention are not only effective but also simple and inexpensive to realize.
  • Connecting pieces of the type mentioned above often have a closure slide, which contains a passage opening, wherein the closure slide from an open position, in which its passage opening is aligned with the connection opening, in the closing direction in a closing position closing the connection opening is movable.
  • the shutter is transferred before removing the dust filter bag from the vacuum cleaner in its closed position, so that the interior of the dust filter bag is completed to the outside and from this point on no more dust can escape.
  • the closure slide at its outer side facing away from the dust filter bag at least in the rear end arranged in the circumferential direction of the passage opening a projecting in a radial plane in the passage opening, second sliding element of film-like thin, flexible material in the state inserted into the vacuum cleaner when moving the shutter from his Open position against the connecting piece runs and bends towards the dust filter bag out.
  • the closure slide slides over the second sliding element on the connecting piece to its free end.
  • the first and / or the second sliding element is expediently glued to the outside of the connection piece or of the closure slide.
  • first and / or the second sliding element may extend substantially with a linear peripheral edge over the connection opening or the passage opening.
  • the first and / or the second sliding element can expediently consist of paper-like material or a plastic film material.
  • the dust air drawn in by a vacuum cleaner is conducted into a dust filter bag 1 exchangeably inserted into the vacuum cleaner, the wall of which is made of filter material, so that the dust is retained in the bag interior and the dust-free air flows out through the bag wall. If the dust filter bag 1 filled with dust, it is removed from the vacuum cleaner and thrown away.
  • a connector 2 is fixedly arranged, via which the dust filter bag is connected to the vacuum cleaner and passes through the dust in the dust filter bag.
  • the connecting piece 2 has a plate-like flat shape with two opposite, substantially mutually parallel edge regions 3, 4 and consists of cardboard-like bendable material.
  • the connecting piece 2 has a base body 5 which forms the edge regions 3, 4 and is firmly connected to the dust filter bag 1, which is two-layered in the exemplary embodiment and remote from the dust filter bag 1, the outer side 6 of the connecting piece 2 forming outer layer 7 and the dust filter bag 1 facing and glued to these inner layer 8 is formed.
  • the outer layer 7 and the inner layer 8 are made of cardboard material. They are at the edge regions 3, 4, in particular by gluing, firmly connected to each other and lie between the edge regions 3, 4 loosely opposite, so that between the two layers 7, 8, a slot-like receptacle 9 is formed, in which a closure slide 10 is arranged is, which has a projecting from the base body 5 handle portion 11 which can be grasped by the user.
  • the closure slide can also be made of cardboard material, but also be made of another suitable material.
  • the base body could also consist of more or less than two layers.
  • the present invention also relates to such fittings that have no closure slide.
  • the main body 5 contains a continuous connection opening 12 which, in the case of the base body 5 consisting of the two layers 7, 8, is formed in each case by a perforation 13 or 14 in the outer layer 7 or the inner layer 8.
  • the two perforations 13, 14 are arranged coaxially behind one another and are aligned with an inlet opening in the dust filter bag 1.
  • the closure slide 10 includes a passage opening 15.
  • the closure slide 10 from an open position (Fig. 1, 2, 5 and 6), in which its passage opening 15 with the connection opening 12 of the main body 5 is aligned, in the closing direction 16 in a closing position closing the connection opening 12 (FIG. 3) movable.
  • the closure slide 10 When the dust filter bag is new, the closure slide 10 is in its open position. In this state, the connector 2 is inserted with the dust filter bag 1 in the vacuum cleaner. If the dust filter bag 1 is full of dust, the closure slide 10 is brought into its closed position, so that its in the closing direction 16 rearwardly arranged slide area 17 reaches the connection opening 12 and covers it. Then, the dust filter bag can be removed with the connector 2 from the vacuum cleaner. For transferring into the closed position, the closure slide 10 is gripped on the handle section 11 and pulled in the closing direction 16. The slide area 17 is seen from the handle section 11 beyond the passage opening 15 at the rear of the shutter slide 10. The direction of movement of the shutter 10 is linear in the embodiment.
  • the central area 18 of the outer layer 7 containing the recess 9 for the closure slide 10 and containing the perforation 13 is arranged offset with respect to the two edge areas 3, 4 in the direction away from the inner layer 8, so that the closure slide 10 has a relatively low friction in the Recording 9 can be moved.
  • This staggered arrangement of the region 18 is achieved by stepwise bending of the outer layer 7 reached.
  • the associated bending line arrangements are indicated at reference numerals 19 and 20.
  • the connecting piece 2, a connecting piece 21 and on both sides of the connecting piece 21 each have a guide device 22, 23 are assigned to the vacuum cleaner.
  • the two guide devices 22, 23 each form a plug-in groove 24 or 25 for insertion of the respectively facing edge region 3 or 4 of the connecting piece 2.
  • the connector 2 is thus inserted with its edge regions 3, 4 in the guide means 22, 23 and so far in pushed the device that the device-side connecting piece 21 to the connection opening 12 of the connector 2 passes.
  • the guide means 22, 23 serve not only for guiding, but also for the lateral holding of the connecting piece 2 in the vacuum cleaner.
  • the insertion direction 26 of the connection piece 2 in the guide means 22, 23 is opposite to the closing direction 16 of the closure slide 10.
  • the connecting piece 21 has an outer shape tapering towards its free end 27. In the illustrated case, the connecting piece 21 tapers conically.
  • the connecting piece 21 and the two guide means 22, 23 can, as is apparent from Fig. 4, are formed by a einstükkigen attachment 28 which is mounted in the vacuum cleaner.
  • the connecting piece 21 projects in front of the plane defined by the two plug-in grooves 24, 25.
  • this is done with the handle portion 11 opposite end of the connector 2 first - pushes the connector 2 against the connecting piece 21 and is bulged by this, so that the connector 2 when inserting the in FIG 4 shows double-dashed lines indicated shape with which it is pushed over the free end portion 27 of time until the connection opening 12 passes to the connecting piece 21, so that the connecting piece 2 is released from the connecting piece 21, so to speak, and spring back into its in Fig. 4 indicated by dash-dotted lines starting length , so that the connecting piece 21 engages in the connection opening 12.
  • connecting opening 12 protruding sliding member 29 is arranged from foil-like thin, flexible material.
  • the sliding element 29 is located in the insertion direction 26 at the front arranged peripheral region of the connection opening 12.
  • a material is selected with a low coefficient of friction.
  • the sliding member 29 may further be formed elastically.
  • connection piece 21 Upon entry of the connection piece 21 into the connection opening 12, the connecting piece 21 takes the region 30 of the sliding element projecting in the radial direction into the perforation 13 29 with and bends it in the direction of the dust filter bag 1 out, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 apparent.
  • the closure slide 10 is used.
  • the closure slide 10 has, on its outer side 31 facing away from the dust filter bag 1, in the circumferential region of the passage opening 15 arranged in the closing direction 16 a second sliding element 32 projecting into the passage opening 15 in a radial plane, which likewise consists of a thin, flexible material of film-like design. This material may also be elastic and should have a low coefficient of friction.
  • the closure slide 10 is, as already mentioned, transferred before removing the dust filter bag 1 from the vacuum cleaner in its closed position. If the closing slide 10 is pulled in the closing direction 16, the region 33 of the second sliding element 32 projecting into the passage opening 15 runs against the connecting piece 21 and bends towards the dust filter bag 1. This situation is not illustrated, but it is readily conceivable with reference to FIG. 6. Upon further pulling on the closure slide 10, the latter then slides with its sliding element region 33 on the connecting piece 21 as far as the free end of the neck 27, so that the slide region 17 arranged behind the passage opening 15 can be pulled completely over the free end of the neck 27.
  • the closing direction 16 of the closure slide 10 is opposite to the insertion direction 26 of the connection piece 2 in the guide means 22, 23 of the vacuum cleaner, so that the two sliding elements 29 and 32 are arranged on adjacent peripheral regions of the connection opening 12 and the passage opening 15.
  • first sliding element 29 and the second sliding element 32 extend essentially with linear peripheral edge 34 or 35 over the connection opening 12 or the passage opening 15, respectively.
  • one or the other of the two sliding elements could also have a peripheral edge extending in the circumferential direction of the connection opening or the passage opening.
  • the first and / or the second sliding element it would be possible for the first and / or the second sliding element to have an annular shape and to extend all the way into the connection opening or into the passage opening.
  • the second sliding member 32 is disposed adjacent to the outer layer 7.
  • the first and / or the second sliding element 29 or 32 is expediently connected to the outside 6 of the connection piece 2 or the closure slide 10 by gluing.
  • a perforated sealing membrane 36 is glued, which forms a circumferential, in a radial plane in the perforation 14 of the inner layer 8 projecting annular region 37, the one against the connecting piece 21st represents acting seal.
  • the engaging into the connection opening 12 connecting piece 21 inverts the ring portion 37 from slightly inwards, so that it is tightly enclosed by the ring portion 37.
  • the sealing membrane 36 is made of rubber-like elastic material.
  • the first and / or the second sliding element 29 or 32 may consist of paper-like material or of plastic film material, for example polypropylene, polyethylene or polyethylene terephthalate.
  • its grammage may suitably be in the range between 60-200 g / m 2 .
  • the plastic film material for the sliding elements may expediently have a thickness of up to 0.5 mm.

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  1. Pièce de raccordement (2), présentant une forme plate de type plaque, d'un sac filtrant à poussière, qui est inséré dans un aspirateur lequel comporte une tubulure de raccordement (21) et, des deux côtés de la tubulure de raccordement, un dispositif de guidage (22, 23) pour enficher dans le sens d'enfichage la zone de bordure (3, 4) tournée vers celui-ci de la pièce de raccordement (2), la tubulure de raccordement (21) présentant une forme extérieure se rétrécissant vers l'extrémité libre de la tubulure, avec une ouverture de raccordement (12) traversant la pièce de raccordement et qui, lors de l'enfichage de la pièce de raccordement (2) s'évasant ici sur la tubulure de raccordement (21), parvient dans le dispositif de guidage (22, 23) de la tubulure de raccordement (21), de sorte que la pièce de raccordement (2) est redéformée vers sa position initiale et que la tubulure de raccordement (21) s'engage dans l'ouverture de raccordement (12), caractérisée en ce que sur le côté extérieur (6), tourné à l'opposé du sac filtrant à poussière (1), de la pièce de raccordement (2), il est disposé au moins dans la zone périphérique, située à l'avant dans le sens d'enfichage (26), de l'ouverture de raccordement (12), un élément de glissement (29), faisant saillie à l'intérieur de l'ouverture de raccordement (12) dans un plan radial, constitué d'un matériau flexible, mince, de type feuille, qui se plie vers le sac filtrant à poussière (1) lors de l'engagement de la tubulure de raccordement (21) dans l'ouverture de raccordement (12), ce qui fait que l'élément de glissement (29) glisse sur la tubulure de raccordement (21), vers son extrémité libre, lors de l'extraction, dans le sens opposé au sens d'enfichage (26), de la pièce de raccordement (2), à l'extérieur des dispositifs de guidage, avec évasement de la pièce de raccordement (2) sur la tubulure de raccordement (21).
  2. Pièce de raccordement (2) selon la revendication 1, avec un obturateur coulissant qui contient un orifice de passage, l'obturateur coulissant étant déplaçable, dans le sens de fermeture, depuis une position ouverte dans laquelle son ouverture de passage est alignée avec l'ouverture de raccordement, dans une position fermée fermant l'ouverture de raccordement, caractérisé en ce que l'obturateur coulissant (10) comporte, sur son côté extérieur (31) tourné à l'opposé du sac filtrant à poussière (1), au moins dans la zone périphérique, située derrière dans le sens de fermeture (16), de l'ouverture de passage (15), un deuxième élément de glissement (32), faisant saillie à l'intérieur de l'ouverture de passage (15) dans un plan radial, constitué d'un matériau flexible et mince, de type feuille, qui, à l'état inséré dans l'aspirateur, vient contre la tubulure de raccordement (21) lors du déplacement de l'obturateur coulissant (10) depuis sa position ouverte, et se plie vers le sac filtrant à poussière (1).
  3. Pièce de raccordement selon la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que le sens de fermeture (16) de l'obturateur coulissant (10) est opposé au sens d'enfichage (26) de la pièce de raccordement (2) dans les dispositifs de guidage de l'aspirateur, de sorte que les deux éléments de glissement (29, 32) sont disposés dans des zones périphériques voisines l'une de l'autre de l'ouverture de raccordement (12) et de l'ouverture de passage (15).
  4. Pièce de raccordement selon la revendication 2 ou 3, caractérisée en ce qu'elle présente une couche extérieure (7) fixe, formant le côté extérieur (6) de la pièce de raccordement (2), et que l'obturateur coulissant (10) est voisin de la couche extérieure (7) vers le sac filtrant à poussière (1), de sorte que le deuxième élément de glissement (32) est disposé à côté de la couche extérieure (7).
  5. Pièce de raccordement selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée en ce que le premier élément de glissement (29) et/ou le deuxième élément de glissement (32) sont collés sur la face extérieure (6) de la pièce de raccordement (2) ou sur la face extérieure (31) de l'obturateur coulissant (10).
  6. Pièce de raccordement selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce que le premier élément de glissement (29) et/ou le deuxième élément de glissement (32) s'étendent essentiellement par une arête de bordure linéaire (34 ou 35) sur l'ouverture de raccordement (12) ou l'ouverture de passage (15).
  7. Pièce de raccordement selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisée en ce que le premier élément de glissement (29) et/ou le deuxième élément de glissement (32) sont constitués d'un matériau de type papier.
  8. Pièce de raccordement selon la revendication 7, caractérisée en ce que le matériau de type papier présente un grammage de 60 à 200 g/m2.
  9. Pièce de raccordement selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisée en ce que le premier élément de glissement (29) et/ou le deuxième élément de glissement (32) sont constitués d'un matériau synthétique en feuille.
  10. Pièce de raccordement selon la revendication 9, caractérisée en ce que le matériau synthétique en feuille présente une épaisseur allant jusqu'à 0,5 mm.
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