Shower Head

• US 20110000983A1
• Filed: 07/01/2009
• Published: 01/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Globe Union Industrial Corporation
• Original Assignee: Globe Union Industrial Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Chung-Hsiang
• Application Number:
  US12/496,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20110000983A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 239/567
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/18 Roses; Shower heads with means for adding soap or the like E03C1/046; jet regulators E03C1/08
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/34 designed to influence the nature of flow of the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. to produce swirl designed to control volume of flow B05B1/30
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/3402 to avoid or to reduce turbulencies, e.g. comprising fluid flow straightening means

Abstract

A shower head comprises an upper body including a tubular portion having a passage formed therein, a connection including an arcuately-curved wall extending radially and having multiple spaced impellers extending downward, each impeller including an arc-shaped biasing end mounted on an inner side thereof and extending downward to define a fixing space, a disc portion including an upper surface fixed on a bottom end thereof; a lower body including a concave lower wall having a conical guiding member extending upward and having an arcuate peripheral side extending downward, wherein the peripheral side is received in the fixing space to abut against the biasing ends so that the peripheral side defines an arc-shaped offset passage extending downward between the arcuately-curved wall and any two abutting impellers; the lower wall engaging with the upper body to define multiple radially extending channels and including multiple outlets to spray water arranged along the channels.

Claims

1. A shower head comprising:

an upper body including a tubular portion, a disc portion, a connection between the tubular portion and the disc portion, wherein the tubular portion includes a passage formed therein, the connection includes an arcuately-curved wall extending radially from a lower side of the passage and having a plurality of impellers extending downward and radially from the arcuately-curved wall and spaced apart from each other, and each impeller includes an arc-shaped biasing end mounted on an inner side thereof and extending downward to define a fixing space, the disc portion includes an upper surface fixed on a bottom end thereof;

a lower body connected to a lower side of the upper body and including a concave lower wall having a conical guiding member extending upward from a central portion of the lower wall and having an arcuate peripheral side extending downward, wherein at least one segment of the peripheral side is received in the fixing space of the upper body to abut against the biasing ends of the impellers so that the peripheral side defines an arc-shaped offset passage which extends downward between the arcuately-curved wall and any two abutting impellers;

the lower wall engages with the upper body to define a plurality of radially extending channels to communicate with the arc-shaped offset passage;

the lower wall includes a number of outlets to spray water arranged along the channels.

2. The shower head as claimed in claim 1, wherein between the upper surface of the upper body and the lower wall of the lower body are defined a number of triangle first abutting portions so that between any two first abutting portions is defined the channel.

3. The shower head as claimed in claim 2, wherein a watering path on an internal side of the first abutting portion leaves the lower wall a certain distance away from bottom walls of the impellers so as to form a first passageway, such that waterflow before being guided to the channels is adjusted its flowing amount equally.

4. The shower head as claimed in claim 2, wherein between the upper surface of the upper body and the lower wall of the lower body is defined an annular second abutting portion such that a second passageway is defined between the second abutting portion and the first abutting portions, so that the waterflow flows through the channels and into the second passageway to adjust and generate equal flowing effect.

5. The shower head as claimed in claim 2, wherein the upper surface of the upper body includes an upper contact rim formed around an outer side thereof, and the lower wall of the lower body includes an abutting protrusion formed thereon to engage with the upper contact rim of the upper surface.

6. The shower head as claimed in claim 4, wherein the width and height of the channel becomes reduced outward so that a cross-sectional area of waterflow become small outward to enhance flowing speed.

7. The shower head as claimed in claim 4, wherein a cross-sectional area of waterflow of an inlet of each channel is 1.5 times larger than that of an export thereof.

8. The shower head as claimed in claim 2, wherein the upper and the lower bodies are screwed together on at least one selected first abutting portion by using a first bolt.

9. The shower head as claimed in claim 1, wherein a top end of the guiding member extends out of the impellers to insert to the tubular portion of the upper body and to define five offset passages.

10. The shower head as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lower body includes a plurality of positioning bores disposed thereon to receive a number of nozzles which are also fitted to the outlets.

11. The shower head as claimed in claim 10 further comprising an annular lid located under the lower body and including a plurality of second through holes to receive the nozzles.

12. The shower head as claimed in claim 11 further comprising a lower cover including an opening attached on a top wall thereof and having a first peripheral tab to retain the lower cover between the lower body and the annular lid.

13. The shower head as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a coupling member including first outer threads disposed on a bottom end thereof to screw with the first inner threads of the tubular portion of the upper body, and a third passageway arranged therein to communicate with the passage of the tubular portion.

14. The shower head as claimed in claim 13, wherein the third passageway of the coupling member includes a downward reduced first section proximate to a top end thereof.

15. The shower head as claimed in claim 14, wherein the first section also includes a sleeve retained therein.

16. The shower head as claimed in claim 13 further comprising an upper cover including an intake disposed on a top wall thereof and having a second peripheral tab to retain the upper cover between the coupling member and the upper body, and a bottom wall of the upper cover extends to a periphery of the upper body.

17. The shower head as claimed in claim 13 further comprising a spheral knob attached on a bottom end of the coupling member and having a fourth passageway to communicate with a top end of the coupling member so that the coupling member rotates around the spheral knob to adjust water spraying angle.

18. The shower head as claimed in claim 17 further comprising a casing including second inner threads to screw with a top end of the upper cover, an upper washer located in the top end of the casing and including a first arcuately concave surface, a lower washer located in the top end of the upper cover and including a second arcuately concave surface.