Patent attributes
A hand vacuum cleaner has a front end, a rear end, a longitudinal axis extending between the front and rear ends, an air flow passage, an air treatment member, an outer wiper, and a front door. The air treatment member includes a treatment chamber having a porous dirt separator. The wiper travels across at least a portion of an outer wall of the porous dirt separator as the wiper moves between a first position to a second position. The front door is moveably mounted between a closed position and an open position, and is drivingly connected to the wiper whereby when the front door moves from the closed position to the open position, the wiper travels from the first position to the second position. A hand vacuum cleaner also has a first cleaning stage which is rotatable to an open position wherein as the first cleaning stage is opened a wiper cleans a porous substrate.
