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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8015658 | Hover vacuum cleaner A self-propulsion hovering vacuum cleaner for domestic or industrial application has air outlets predisposed symmetrically along the longitudinal axis of the underside of the casing for directing more air to the front and back directions of the vacuum cleaner to ach... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7320151 | Vacuum cleaner An electric vacuum cleaner of the present invention includes: a base plate connected to the lower face of a cleaner body so that the base plate is freely movable up and down, and having an exhaust hole formed in a surface facing the surface to be cleaned for blowing... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7047647 | Hand-held power tool with a suction device A hand-held power tool inclLldes motor-driven drive shaft (4) for driving a working tool (9) and located in the tool housing (1), and a suction device (2) formed as a modular unit releasably connectable wYith the tool housing (1) a... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6687951 | Toroidal vortex bagless vacuum cleaner Disclosed are improved vacuum cleaning apparatus that utilize toroidal vortex air flow in order to establish a pressure differential capable of attracting debris. These systems differ significantly from prior vacuum cleaners in that they are essentially c... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6237188 | Suction port body for vacuum-cleaner and vacuum-cleaner having the same A suction nozzle for a vacuum cleaner is designed so that exhaust from a motor blower in the body of the vacuum cleaner is provided into a suction port of the suction nozzle. The exhaust provided into the suction nozzle is prevented from being discharged ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6209167 | Hover vacuum cleaner A hover vacuum cleaner has a casing, an underside to the casing, an impeller and drive motor for the impeller, a dust filter, an inlet for dust laden air, an exhaust port in the, a pathway for air to pass from the inlet, through the dust filter and impell... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6141822 | Vacuum cleaner for household refuse The invention concerns a vacuum cleaner including an internal structure with a motor (12a) driving an air sucking turbine (12) located in a downstream chamber (16) communicating with an upstream chamber (15) containing means (13, 26) for filtering the air... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5930864 | Upright vacuum cleaner An upright vacuum cleaner includes a main body, a floor nozzle unit, and a float plate or float unit. The main body has a motor fan for generating a suction force and a dust-collection chamber for collecting dust. The motor fan provides the suction force ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5799363 | Upright vacuum cleaner An upright vacuum cleaner has a float unit (29A) for lifting the upright vacuum cleaner during cleaning by spouting discharge air to a floor to be cleaned. The float unit (29A) has a floor-opposing face having a discharge-air outlet port (31) for spouting... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5553347 | Upright vacuum cleaner An upright vacuum cleaner has a floating function for lifting the upright vacuum cleaner in a cleaning operation by spouting discharge air flow to a floor to be cleaned, and at least a suction-air inlet port for sucking air with dusts is arranged at an ou... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5392492 | Air-floated apparatus The present invention describes an air-floated vacuum cleaner comprising a housing having an air inlet opening, an open bottom and an inner wall, an impeller for pressurizing air within the housing to float the housing above a support surface, and a novel... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5301388 | Critically safe vacuum pickup for use in wet or dry cleanup of radioactive materials A vacuum pickup of critically safe quantity and geometric shape is used in cleanup of radioactive materials. Collected radioactive material is accumulated in four vertical, parallel, equally spaced canisters arranged in a cylinder configuration. Each cani... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5210996 | Air-floated apparatus An air-floated apparatus, such as a lawn mower or vacuum cleaner, includes a housing having an open bottom and an air intake opening. The housing is adapted to cooperate with a support surface beneath the housing to define a substantially enclosed chamber... | 05/18/1993 |
| 4571849 | Apparatus for removing liquid from the ground A machine for removing liquid from an area of ground over which the liquid has spread, comprises a convex hood (11) with a flat tray (12) mounted inside it. A motor driven fan (14) blows a downdraft out of the tray's central aperture (16) across the under... | 02/25/1986 |
| 3958299 | Auxiliary air cooling system for canister cleaners Canister cleaner arrangements are provided in which auxiliary cooling air is introduced to the cleaner main air stream fan system discharge so as to provide a cooled discharge air temperature to maintain cooled portions of the canister cleaner adjacent th... | 05/25/1976 |
