The present disclosure provides a surface cleaning apparatus that includes a housing adapted for movement over a surface to be cleaned and a headlight having at least one light emitting element internal to the housing. A light pipe is integrated with a cover for a brushroll, and conveys light emitted from the light emitting element to an exterior of the housing. Methods for operating the headlight are also disclosed.

A hand held solid pet waste vacuum is described, which allows the sanitary collection of solid pet waste from off of a variety of surfaces (for example dirt, snow, gravel or grass) into a disposable filter bag. The vacuum is powered by a rechargeable battery which can provide 50 clean-ups on a single 12 hour charge and a 30,000 rpm electric vacuum motor. Each disposable filter bag can hold one week's worth of solid pet waste (depending on pet breed and diet), and is completely sanitary, preventing pet waste from coming in contact with either the vacuum or the operator.

A vacuum cleaner includes an upright handle assembly, a foot assembly adapted to be moved along a surface to be cleaned and having a suction nozzle, a multi-axis joint swivelably mounting the upright handle assembly to the foot assembly and defining a first axis about which the upright handle assembly twists relative to the foot assembly and a second axis about which the upright handle assembly pivot relative to the foot assembly, and a detachable vacuum module supported on the upright handle assembly by the module platform.

A surface cleaning apparatus comprises having a primary dirty air inlet and a drive handle drivingly connected to the surface cleaning head and comprising an above floor cleaning wand, a flexible hose and an auxiliary dirty air inlet, wherein the all in the head surface cleaning apparatus is useable in a floor cleaning mode in which the drive handle is drivingly connected to the surface cleaning head and air enters the all in the head surface cleaning apparatus via the primary dirty air inlet of the surface cleaning head and an above floor cleaning mode wherein the above floor cleaning wand is extended from a stored position and air enters the all in the head surface cleaning apparatus via the auxiliary dirty air inlet.

A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone and a dirt collection chamber wherein the dirt collection chamber has a dirt collection chamber portion which is located axially spaced from the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber portion has a transverse section in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the cyclone that is annular.

A vacuum cleaner comprising a housing, a suction source, a dirt collection chamber in fluid communication with the suction source, a battery to provide power to the suction source, and a plug assembly having a body and an electrical connector in electrical communication with the battery via a cord. The plug assembly is configured to receive power from an AC power source to charge the battery. The plug assembly is moveable between a first position, in which the plug assembly is outside the housing and a second position in which the plug assembly is received in the housing. When the plug assembly is in the second position, the body of the plug assembly forms an outer surface of the housing.

A surface cleaning apparatus comprises an air treatment member having an air treatment chamber. A moveable member is positioned in the air treatment chamber. A driving assembly is drivingly connected to the moveable member wherein the driving assembly is reconfigurable between a stored position and an operable position in which the driving assembly is operable to longitudinally translate the moveable member through at least a portion of the chamber.

A reconfigurable upright vacuum cleaner has a portable surface cleaning unit removably mounted to an upper portion. The portable surface cleaning unit has a suction motor and an air treatment member. The air treatment member is removably mounted to the portable surface cleaning unit and secured in position by an air treatment member lock. The portable surface cleaning unit is secured in position by a portable surface cleaning unit lock. When the portable surface cleaning unit is mounted to the upper portion and the upper portion is in the storage position, the portable surface cleaning unit actuator is provided on an upper end of the portable surface cleaning unit and the air treatment member release actuator is provided on an upper end of the air treatment member.

A vacuum cleaner including an airflow passage that extends from a suction inlet to an air outlet, a dirt separator, a suction source operable to generate a suction airflow that travels through the suction inlet, through the dirt separator, and through the air outlet. The vacuum further includes a battery that supplies power to the suction source to generate the suction airflow and a portion of the airflow passage is defined by the battery.

An accessory for use with a vacuum cleaner, the accessory being adaptable to releasably connect to the vacuum cleaner, the accessory comprising: a vacuum intake head having a chamber arranged such that when the accessory is connected to the vacuum cleaner, the chamber is in fluid communication with the vacuum cleaner and adaptable to receive air and liquid from and around the surface to be cleaned; and filtration means adaptable to separate the liquid from the air such that substantially no liquid returns to the vacuum cleaner the accessory further comprising spraying means for spraying a work fluid onto a surface to be cleaned wherein the vacuum intake head comprises at least one rotatable brush for agitating the surface to be cleaned, wherein the spraying means is adaptable to spray work fluid onto and around the at least one rotatable brush the accessory having a control means.