ADJUSTABLE MOUNTING ARRANGEMENT FOR HAND-HELD SHOWER HEAD

• US 3,826,454 A
• Filed: 07/24/1972
• Issued: 07/30/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Water Pik Incorporated (Church & Dwight Company Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Claus D. Zieger
• Inventors: Zieger, Claus D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Parsons, Jr., Marion
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bonck, Rodney H.
• Application Number:
  US05/274,511
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• Field of Search: 248/75-80,274,82,84,86,88,122,288,42,44,242,357,188,240,240.1,240.3,454,48,299 306/6 239/587,588 403/3,4 211/101,102,74,69.5,69.6 240/52.R
• US Class Current: 248/75
• 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: Y10S 248/912 Plural, selectively usable, article engaging means

Abstract

An adjustable mounting arrangement for hand-held shower heads includes a frusto-conical hose coupling, secured to the shower head, and a wall-mounted bracket in which the coupling is supported. The bracket includes opposed sidewalls containing a plurality of opposed pairs of channels of tapered arcuate crosssection such that each channel pair is capable of supporting the frusto-conical hose coupling. Each channel pair is oriented at a different angle relative to the vertical whereby the shower head is supported at a different angle by each channel pair. The hose coupling is rotatable, about its own longitudinal axis, within each support channel pair to provide additional positioned adjustment of the shower head. The front end of the bracket is opened to permit the hose to fit therethrough when the shower head is being placed in or removed from the bracket.

Claims

1. A multi-position mounting bracket for a shower head of the type which is adapted to be hand-held and which receives pressurized water from a flexible hose coupled to said shower head by means of a frusto-conical coupling member, said frustoconical coupling member being convergent in the direction away from said shower head, said bracket being an integrally formed one-piece member comprising:

a pair of opposed sidewalls defining an open region therebetween;

a rear wall joining said opposed sidewalls; and

plural pairs of opposed support channels defined in the interior surfaces of said sidewalls, the channels in each pair of support channels being configured to correspond to respective peripheral portions of said frusto-conical coupling member and having sufficient arcuate length to permit each pair of support channels to provide sole support for said shower head at said coupling member.

2. The bracket according to claim 1 wherein said rear wall is adapted to be mounted on a vertical wall, and wherein the channels formed in each sidewall are adjacent one another and arranged at different angles with respect to said rear wall, said channels narrowing in the direction generally toward said rear wall.

3. The bracket according to claim 2 wherein the front of said bracket is open to permit passage of said hose therethrough.

4. The bracket according to claim 3 made entirely of plastic.

5. The bracket according to claim 1 wherein said rear wall is adapted to be mounted on a vertical wall, wherein the front of said bracket includes two intersecting surfaces projecting forwardly from the top and bottom of said brackets, and wherein said support channels extend from the uppermost of said two intersecting surfaces to the bottom of said sidewalls, each pair of channels subtending a different angle with respect to said rear wall.

6. The bracket according to claim 5 wherein said bracket is fabricated entirely from plastic and includes a frontal opening through said two intersecting surfaces to permit said flexible hose to be inserted into and removed from the interior region of said bracket.