Toy Vacuum Cleaner

Abstract

To provide a toy vacuum cleaner with which a player enjoys playing by seeing the toy sucking air and dust and which is allowed to be played with long time joyfully without making buoyant objects dirty by the air sucked in, a toy vacuum cleaner is provided in which outside air is sucked from an intake port of an intake head into an interior of a vacuum cleaner main body via a dust pod provided at the rear of the vacuum cleaner main body, a front air compartment separated from the interior of the vacuum cleaner main body is provided at the front of the vacuum cleaner main body, buoyant objects are sealed in the front air compartment, and the air is discharged from the front air compartment to an exterior of the vacuum cleaner main body via a space compartment and an exhaust duct.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A toy vacuum cleaner, comprising:
 a vacuum cleaner main body to which an intake head can be connected via a head pipe and an intake hose and which includes a driving motor and a suction fan in an interior thereof,   wherein the suction fan sucks outside air sucked in from an intake port of the intake head via the intake hose into an interior space of the vacuum cleaner main body via an interior of a dust pod which is provided at a rear portion of the vacuum cleaner main body,   wherein the vacuum cleaner main body allows the dust pod to be detachably attached to the rear portion of the vacuum cleaner main body,   wherein the vacuum cleaner main body has a transparent front air compartment cover which is provided at a front portion thereof and a front air compartment on an inner side of the front air compartment cover, the front air compartment being separated from the interior space of the vacuum cleaner main body, and   wherein a buoyant object is sealed in the front air compartment, an air ventilation hole is provided near a front end of a lower surface of the front air compartment so as to allow the front air compartment to communicate with the interior space of the vacuum cleaner main body, the front air compartment communicates with a space compartment which is formed above the front air compartment by an air compartment exhaust port, and the space compartment communicates with an exterior of the vacuum cleaner main body via an exhaust duct.   
     
     
         2 . The toy vacuum cleaner according to  claim 1 , wherein:
 the front air compartment is defined at a front and on sides thereof by the front air compartment cover having a shape which is close to a curved crescent shape, is defined at a top thereof by an air compartment upper cover member and is defined at a bottom thereof by an air compartment lower cover plate which extends from a front lower portion to a rear upper portion of the front air compartment;   the air compartment upper cover member is a thick plate, defines a space compartment on an inner side thereof, has a front part which is formed into a shape which resembles a semicircular shape and is connected to an upper edge of the front air compartment cover along a circumferential edge thereof; and   the air compartment lower cover plate is a plate having a shape which is close to a semicircular shape, is made short at a front and tall at a rear thereof so that the air compartment lower cover plate is connected to a rear end of the air compartment upper cover member at a rear end thereof and is connected to a lower edge of the front air compartment cover along a circumferential edge thereof.