ADJUSTING DEVICE FOR POSITIONING SHOWER HEAD

• US 20080121771A1
• Filed: 01/18/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chen T.E. Sen
• Original Assignee: Chen T.E. Sen
• Inventors: Sen, Chen Te
• Granted Patent: US 7,407,140 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/229.11
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/06 Devices for suspending or supporting the supply pipe or supply hose of a shower-bath showers per se A47K3/28
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/066 allowing height adjustment of shower head

Abstract

An adjusting device for positioning shower head includes a holder movably connected to a rod and a clip for positioning a shower head is rotatably connected to the holder. A frame is connected to the holder and a clamp is movably located between the holder and the frame. The clamp has a clamp shoe which is in a first position to contact the rod or in a second position to be removed from the rod. The clamp has an insertion extending therefrom which extends through the frame and is connected with a lever unit. A spring is mounted on the insertion. The lever unit can pull the insertion to remove the clamp shoe away from the rod to allow the holder to be moved along the rod.

Claims

1. An adjusting device for positioning shower head, comprising:

a holder adapted to be movably mounted on a rod;

a clip rotatably connected to a first end of the holder and having two clipping jaws;

a frame connected to a second end of the holder and a clamp located between the holder and the frame, the clamp having a clamp shoe connected to a first end of the clamp and an insertion extending from a second end of the clamp, the insertion extending through a first central hole defined through the frame and a spring mounted on the insertion, and

a lever unit connected to a distal end of the insertion that extends through the frame such that the clamp together with the clamp shoe are movable by operating the lever unit.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the clip includes a circular skirt in which a first recessed portion is defined and a stepped protrusion extends from the first end of the holder, the stepped protrusion is received in the first recessed portion, a connection tube extends from a center of the stepped protrusion, a first connection piece extending through a central hole in the clip and connected to the connection tube so as to connect the clip and the stepped protrusion.

3. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the stepped protrusion includes a recess defined therein and a positioning unit is inserted in the recess, the positioning unit includes a biasing member a bead which is biased by the biasing member, the clip includes a plurality of detents defined in an inner surface of the first recessed portion, the bead is engaged with one of the detents.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the frame includes a bottom and two sidewalls extending from the bottom, each sidewall has a through hole, two bosses extend from two sides of an open end of the holder and the two sides of the holder are located at two respective insides of the sidewalls of the frame and the two bosses are inserted into the two through holes.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the clamp shoe has a rough surface defined in a first side thereof and positioning tubes extend from a second side of the clamp shoe, the positioning tubes are securely inserted into positioning holes defined in the clamp.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a circular protrusion extends from the frame and the first central hole is defined through the circular protrusion, two concavities are defined in an outer surface of the circular protrusion, the lever unit includes a second recessed portion and a second central hole is defined through the lever unit, the circular protrusion of the frame is received in the second recessed portion, a second connection piece extends through the second central hole, the first central hole and is connected to the insertion of the clamp, two positioning projections extend from an inner surface of the second recessed portion and are removably engaged with the concavities of the frame.