Dirt drawer latch for vacuum cleaner

Claim 1

In a vacuum cleaner having a body formed with a tray accommodating opening; a motor blower unit associated with said housing for creating a vacuum therein; and a tray insertable into said housing through said tray accommodating opening; said tray including inlet means for supporting a disposable filter bag thereon, a front wall adapted to close said tray accommodating opening in said housing when said tray is inserted completely into said housing, and latch means for releasably restraining said tray completely inserted into said housing; the improvement comprising: a plurality of latch bolts included in said latch means, each latch bolt shiftably supported on said tray; said body being formed with a plurality of latch bolt accommodating recesses spaced from each other and arranged each in registry with a different one of said plurality of latch bolts when said tray is inserted completely within said body; and interlock means operationally interconnecting all of said latch bolts for shifting movement in unison between positions into and out of engagement with said respective registering recesses, whereby impedance of the shift of any one latch bolt into engagement with its respective registering recess will effect similar impedance of the shift of all of the other latch bolts.