US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Sept. 23 for "Dust collector including filter cleaning mechanism" (Wisconsin, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,370, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Dust collector including filter cleaning mechanism" was invented by Daryl S. Richards (Sussex, Wis.), Joseph R. Beeson (Kansas City, Mo.) and Daniel Simmons (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dust collector for use with a hand-held power tool. The dust collector includes a housing, a motor positioned in the housing, and a telescoping suction pipe coupled to the housing. The dust collector also includes a suction fan coupled to the motor and operable to generate a vacuum in the suction pipe. The dust collector further includes a dust ...