Patent attributes
A surface cleaning apparatus has an air flow path from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet. The air flow path comprising an air inlet conduit which extends downstream from the dirty air inlet. The Surface cleaning apparatus has a first stage cyclone and a second stage cyclone downstream from the first stage cyclone, the second stage cyclone having a plurality of air inlets. The cyclone axis of rotation of the first stage cyclone extends through the air outlet of the second stage cyclone. the first stage cyclone, the second stage cyclone having a plurality of air inlets, an air outlet and a cyclone axis of rotation. A plane that is transverse to the axis of rotation of the second stage cyclone extends through the inlet conduit and the air outlet of the second stage cyclone.