| 摘要 |
A vacuum apparatus for temporary installation in a fireplace or stove of the type having a central opening with a floor at the bottom and a flue at the top thereof for cleaning the flue. The apparatus includes a hollow funnel-shaped adapter member configured at its upper end to generally conform to the size and shape of the bottom portion or throat of the flue of the fireplace and has a bottom end connected by a flexible hose to the inlet of a collection container. The collection container has an outlet which receives the free end of a vacuum cleaner hose which is connected to the intake of a conventional vacuum cleaner. The adapter member is supported by a pair of spring biased telescoping legs which maintain a resilient seal at the top end of the adapter member in sealing relation with the bottom portion or throat of the flue of the fireplace. When the vacuum vacuum cleaner is on, soot, ash, and particles of burned materials dislodged from the interior of the flue by a chimney brush will be drawn into the adapter member, and through the flexible hose, into the interior of the collection container wherein heavier materials will fall to the bottom of the container and lighter materials will be drawn from the container and inducted into the conventional vacuum cleaner and captured by an existing filter in the conventional vacuum cleaner.
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