A vacuum cleaner has a portable cleaning unit that is removably mounted to the surface cleaning head. The vacuum cleaner is operable in a floor cleaning configuration in which the portable cleaning unit is mounted to the surface cleaning head and is part of the air flow path through the vacuum cleaner. The portable cleaning unit is also useable in a portable cleaning configuration in which the portable cleaning unit is removed from the surface cleaning head.

A surface cleaning apparatus or a docking station for a surface cleaning apparatus comprises a housing body has air flow path extending from an air inlet of the housing body to an air outlet of the housing body and, a non-cyclonic momentum separator positioned in the housing body wherein a portion of the momentum separator is spaced from the housing body wherein a chamber is provided exterior to the momentum separator and within the housing body. An air flow conduit extends from the air inlet of the housing body to an air inlet of the momentum separator, and the air flow conduit extends through the chamber. A portion of the momentum separator that is spaced from the housing body comprises at least two sides of the momentum separator, and the at least two sides of the momentum separator are porous and comprise an air outlet of the momentum separator.

A dust container for a vacuum cleaner comprises a vessel, a reed valve, and a filter. The vessel has a longitudinal axis and an annular cross section transverse to the longitudinal axis. The vessel has a first end and a second end, a tangential inlet near the first end, and an axial outlet at the first end. The second end is closed, and the vessel is impervious except for the inlet and the outlet. A vacuum actuated valve biased toward a closed position is positioned to seal the inlet of the vessel, and a filter is positioned in covering relationship with the outlet of the vessel. Dust is trapped within the vessel which can be disposed of as a unit together with the valve and filter and can be replaced with a fresh unit.

A vacuum cleaner includes a suctioning unit, a main body including a cyclone unit for separating dust from the air suctioned through the suctioning unit, a body forming a dust container for storing the dust separated by the cyclone unit, and a body cover for opening and closing the lower side of the body. A filter unit is arranged in the body for filtering air. An actuating unit is configured to move in the body along a space between the outside of the filter unit and the inner circumferential surface of the body.

A dust scraping device for a cleaning apparatus includes a dust cup and a removable cyclone separation unit arranged in the dust cup. The dust scraping device includes a dust scraping member. The dust scraping member has a connection portion extending in a removal direction of the cyclone separation unit, and a dust scraping portion extending to an interior of the dust cup in a direction perpendicular to the removal direction and slidably abutting against the cyclone separation unit. The dust scraping device is mounted at the dust cup, and the dust scraping portion scrapes off at least part of debris on an outer side of the cyclone separation unit when the cyclone separation unit is removed from the dust cup.

An air treatment apparatus has a momentum separator positioned in an air flow path. The momentum separator has an upper wall, a lower wall, a sidewall extending between the upper and lower walls and a momentum separator air inlet. The upper wall comprises an upper screen and an upper end wall is spaced from and faces the upper screen wherein an upper air flow chamber is positioned between the upper end wall and the upper screen.

A vacuum cleaner comprises a housing. A motor-fan assembly is mounted in the housing and arranged to generate and air flow between an air inlet and an air outlet. A spiral dirt separator is mounted between the air inlet and the motor-fan assembly. A dirt collector mountable on the housing and comprising a plurality of dirt compartments arranged to each receive dirt from a different part of the spiral dirt separator.

The present disclosure relates to a cleaner capable of easily separating a filter module from a main body of the cleaner and separating and assembling the separated filter module again. Disclosed is a cleaner including: a main body; a suction motor disposed in the main body and configured to generate a suction force so as to suction air; a dust separator separating dust from air by generating a cyclone flow in air introduced by the suction motor; and a filter module having a filter for filtering air discharged from the suction motor and being detachable from the main body. Here, the filter module is configured to be easily separated from the main body of the cleaner and assembled, such that the filter disposed inside the filter module may be easily cleaned or replaced.

A hand vacuum cleaner with a finger grip area that is provided between a forward side of the handle and a rear side of the main body, and wherein the suction motor is positioned between the cyclone and the finger grip area and an axis that extends between the front of the cyclone and the handle extends through the suction motor.

A hand vacuum includes a nozzle portion at a front end of the hand vacuum having a dirty air inlet. An air flow passage extends from the dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet in a main body rearward of the nozzle portion. The main body houses a suction motor in the air flow passage. First and second laterally spaced apart opposed arm members extend generally axially between the nozzle portion and the main body, and a volume is positioned between the nozzle portion, the main body and the opposed arm members. An air treatment member assembly comprising an air treatment member is removably positionable in the volume. At least one of a nozzle portion air outlet, an air treatment member assembly air inlet, an air treatment member assembly air outlet and a main body air inlet is axially retractable.