US20020096411A1 - Portable electric appliance with cord holder - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
- H02G11/00—Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts
- H02G11/02—Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts using take-up reel or drum
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
- B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
- B65H75/34—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
- B65H75/38—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material
- B65H75/44—Constructional details
- B65H75/4473—Constructional details without arrangements or adaptations for rotating the core or former
- B65H75/4476—Constructional details without arrangements or adaptations for rotating the core or former with stored material wound around two spaced supports
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
- H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
- H01R13/72—Means for accommodating flexible lead within the holder
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- This invention relates to portable, electric powered appliances such as humidifiers, air purifiers and fans.
- Portable electric appliances commonly have a power cord that is several feet long. The cord terminates with a plug that may be plugged into a wall socket to access a source of municipal power. This is done when the appliance is ready for or actually is in use. When not in use, as when being moved about or stowed, the power cord must be held or otherwise it will drag during transport. During storage it should be held or coiled for compactness and neatness.
- Heretofore portable electric appliances have been equipped with means for holding their power cord. Vacuum cleaners, for example, commonly have hooks or cleats mounted to their vacuum tubes. Their power cords are wrapped over these along the tubes when the appliance is not in use. Other appliances have been equipped with means for retracting and storing the cord inside the appliance housing. These employ spring loaded reels and thus have moving parts and are more expensive. Others have had racks mounted to their housing for this purpose. Exemplary of these are those shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,033,491, 3,476,331 and 6,003,804.
- Most power cord holders have provided projections in one form or another. This presents little problem when the cord is wrapped about them. However, when the appliance is not in use these projections not only present a hazard, they also prevent the appliance from being placed flushly or a least closely aside a wall. Small appliances are commonly located on kitchen countertops where space is at a premium. Even those larger ones that are set upon floors, such as air purifiers, humidifiers, space heaters and fans, are preferably located closely aside a wall.
- Accordingly, it is seen that a need has long existed for portable, electric powered appliances to be provided with power cord holders that are readily accessible and easy to use and yet which do not provide protrusions of significance when not in use. It thus is to the provision of such that the present invention is primarily directed.
- In a preferred form of the invention, a portable electrically powered appliance has a housing, an electric load housed within the housing, and an electric power cord coupled with the load. The power cord extends out of the housing for connection to a source of electric power. The housing has a generally flat side formed with two recesses and two posts with manually gripable flanges. The posts are repositionably mounted to the housing side recesses for movement between a retracted position with their flanges generally coplanar with the housing side and an extended position with their flanges located outboard of the side. So constructed, the electric power cord may be wrapped about the posts for appliance transportation and storage with the posts in their extended positions and the posts retracted when the appliance is in use so that they do not present protrusions.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an air purifier that incorporates principles of the invention in a preferred form shown with its power cord loose.
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the air purifier of FIG. 1 shown with its power cord stowed.
- FIG. 3 is an enlarged view, in perspective, of one of the two cord holding posts shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
- FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a portion of the air purifier showing one of its cord holding posts in its retracted position while FIG. 5 shows; it in its extended position.
- Referring now in more detail to the drawing, there is shown an
air purifier 10 that is of conventional structure save for its inclusion of means for holding its power cord in a stowed configuration. The air purifier has a housing with agrill 11 on its front side that provides an air inlet and anothergrill 12 on its top that provides an air outlet. The housing also has abottom 12, twoopposite sides 13 and aback 14. The air purifier has an unshown blower and filter conventionally mounted inside the housing between the air inlet and air outlet. The blower fan is driven by an electric motor from which apower cord 15 extends. The cord terminates with aplug 16. Upon insertion of the plug into a socket the unit may be connected with a source of municipal power upon operation of its on/off switch. The housing is formed with twohand grips 18 for portability. - The
back side 14 of the housing is generally flat except for two recesses in its two bottom corners. Theprincipal walls 21 of the recesses are flat and parallel to theback side 14. Onerecess wall 21 is formed with ahole 22 through which thepower cord 15 extends. Each recess is formed with a central opening through which acylindrical post 25 extends. The inboard end of the post is formed with two pairs ofshort slits 26 that straddle a chambered orbeveled locking tab 27. The outboard end of the post is formed with a disc-shaped ormaple leaf flange 30 that has three angularly spacednotches 31. The post may be readily mounted to the housing rear side by inserting its end whereupon the tabs are momentarily flexed inwardly and then spring back to serve as stop. The posts may then be moved between the retracted position shown in FIG. 4 and the extended positions shown in FIG. 5. In their retracted positions their flanges are located in therecesses 20 while in their extended positions they are located outboard of therear side 14. - In use the power cord plug is inserted into an electrical receptacle like a common wall socket. The posts are recessed as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4. So configured they do not provide protrusions that can present a hazard. This also enables the purifier to be set closely beside a wall. Indeed, this enables the unit, whether it be an air purifier, or humidifier, or simply a fan, to be placed flush against a room wall. If full flush placement is desired a small channel is formed in the rear side that extends from a
recess 30 to aside 13 to receive thecord 15. - During storage or transportation the cord is wrapped about the post as shown in FIG. 2. This is done by manually pulling the two
flanges 30 outwardly and then wrapping the cord about thepost 25. The cord is then seated in anotch 31. - It thus is seen that a portable electric appliance is now provided with improved means for holding its power cord. Although the invention has been shown and described in its preferred form, it should be understood that many modifications, changes or additions may be made without departure from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.
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