ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,663, issued on Sept. 16.
"Vacuum hose adaptor" was invented by Gary Ragner (Gainesville, Fla.) and Robert Daniel de Rochemont Jr. (Gainesville, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum hose adaptor (20) having a suction air channel (24) defined between a sealing plate (25) and a male hose coupler (22). The sealing plate (25) is designed to make a relatively air tight seal against the bottom plate (58) (i.e., rotary brush opening, suction inlet) on the bottom of a main nozzle (55) on an upright vacuum cleaner (50) and may use one or more locking mechanisms (26) for temporarily holding the sealing plate (25) against the bottom pla...