Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

The inventors and/or owners of Halo vacuum and their UV technologies get a second chance, at Oreck of all places.  Oreck is the assignee on U.S. patent app. #20090000056.

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Our U.S. government makes viewing U.S. patents online difficult by using the Tiff image format (by design?).  By contrast the European patent office uses the common pdf format and is easy to view for most (below).

U.S. patent applications:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=GARCIA%3B+Ken&FIELD1=IN&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PG01


Europe patent applications:
http://v3.espacenet.com/searchResults?locale=en_EP&IN=Garcia%3B+Carrie&ST=advanced&compact=false&DB=EPODOC

Claims describing why a UV inside a brushroll:
http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/claims?CC=US&NR=2008061252A1&KC=A1&FT=D&date=20080313&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP