Shower head and liquid soap dispensing and metering means

• US 3,231,200 A
• Filed: 08/05/1963
• Issued: 01/25/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jerome I. Heald
• Original Assignee: Jerome I. Heald
• Inventors: Heald, Jerome I.
• Application Number:
  US04/299,957
• Time in Patent Office: 904 Days
• US Class Current: 239/318
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/046 Adding soap, disinfectant, or the like in the supply line or at the water outletpreventing contamination of drinking-water pipes E03C1/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87595 Combining of three or more diverse fluids

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION, A SHOWER HEAD ASSEMBLY EMBODYING A CONDUIT HAVING A WATER-INTAKE NIPPLE SECTION AT AN INNER END, A NOZZLE DOWNTURNED SECTION AT AN OUTER END PROVIDED WITH A TERMINAL MANUALLY REGULATABLE SHOWER HEAD, THE INNER ADJACENT END PORTIONS OF SAID SECTIONS BEING AXIALLY ALIGNED AND CONNECTED TOGETHER BY AN INTERVENING COUPLING HAVING A GRADUALLY ENLARGED AXIAL PASSAGE THERETHROUGH, SAID PASSAGE TAPERING AND CONSTITUTING VENTURI RESTRICTION, A MEDIAN PORTION OF SAID COUPLING BEING PROVIDED WITH A PROPORTIONALLY RESTRICTED AUXILIARY ORIFICE AND FURTHER PROVIDED WITH A DEPENDING GLOBE-TYPE VALVE THE PASSAGE OF WHICH IS IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID VENTURI BY WAY OF AUXILIARY ORIFICE, SAID GLOBE VALVE HAVING A LIMITED AERATING INTAKE PORT IN ONE SIDE AND HAVING A VALVE ELEMENT WHICH IS CONVENIENTLY AND ACCESSIBLY OPENABLE AND CONTROLLABLE, AN ELONGATED SIPHONING TUBE CONNECTED COMMUNICATIVELY AT AN UPPER END TO THE LOWER END OF THE PASSAGE IN SAID VALVE AND DEPENDING THEREFROM AND OPEN AT ITS BOTTOM, A CONTAINER ATTACHING AND SUPPORTING CAP HAVING A TOP PORTION PROVIDED WITH AIR VENTS AND A DEPENDING SCREW-THREADED RIM PORTION, A CONCENTRATED LIQUID SOAP CONTAINER HAVING A NECK AT ITS UPPER END CONNECTED TO AND SUSPENDED REMOVABLY FROM SAID RIM PORTION, SAID SHIPHONING TUBE EXTENDING AXIALLY DOWN INTO THE CONTAINER PORTION OF THE CONTAINER AND HAVING ITS LOWER END TERMINATING ADJACENT THE BOTTOM THEREOF, AND A SECOND TUBE COMPLEMENTAL TO SAID SIPHONING TUBE AND ENCLOSING SAID SIPHONING TUBE AND HAVING AN UPPER END COOPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID CAP AND THE UPPER END OF SAID SIPHONING TUBE AND PROVIDED WITH CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED AIR INTAKE PORTS, THE LOWER END OF SAID SECOND TUBE ENCLOSING THE LOWER OPEN END OF SAID SIPHONING TUBE, BEING RADIALLY SPACED THEREFROM AND PROVIDING A SOAP CONCENTRATE RECEIVING AND MIXING CHAMBER AND PROVIDED WITH A SINGLE RESTRICTED SOAP SEEPAGE HOLE COMMUNICATING WITH THE CONTAINER PORTION AND SAID CHAMBER AND LOCATED AT A LEVEL ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE LOWER OPEN END OF SAID SIPHONING TUBE.