Mounting arrangement for hand-held shower head

• US 3,979,096 A
• Filed: 11/30/1973
• Issued: 09/07/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Water Pik Incorporated (Church & Dwight Company Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Interbath, Inc. (Church & Dwight Company Incorporated)
• Inventors: Zieger, Claus D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Marquette, Darrell
• Application Number:
  US05/420,608
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 248/75, 248/76, 248/229, 248/314, 239/588, 4/145, 4/159
• 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

Abstract

A mounting arrangement for a hand-held shower head includes a bracket which is secured to the water supply pipe and a receiver which is pivotally mounted to the bracket so that its position may be adjusted in a plane extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the supply pipe. The receiver is open along one side to permit a hose attachment for the shower head to be inserted into or removed from the receiver. The receiver is adapted to receive the shower head in a plurality of angularly related positions so that the horizontal direction of the spray may be adjusted. Vertical spray direction is adjustable by pivoting the receiver relative to the bracket.

Claims

1. In a shower installation of the type having a rigid water supply pipe with an outlet from which pressurized water can be supplied to a shower head via a flexible hose which attaches to the supply pipe outlet and has insufficient rigidity of itself to support said shower head in an operable position, wherein said shower head is of the type which receives pressurized water at one end from said hose and issues the pressurized water from its opposite end after re-directing the water flow direction internally of the shower head, a mounting arrangement for said shower head, comprising:

a support member of regular polygonal periphery secured to said shower head proximate said one end thereof;

a bracket member having an apertured leg and a further leg oriented perpendicular to said apertured leg, means for fixedly securing said apertured leg to supply pipe with the supply pipe extending through the apertured leg such that said apertured leg is perpendicular to said supply pipe and said further leg is parallel to and spaced from said supply pipe;

a receiver member; and

means for rotatably securing said receiver member to said further leg to permit operator-initiated rotation of said receiver member relative to said bracket member about a single axis extending perpendicular to said further leg;

said receiver member including a hollow member having an opening at least as wide as the diameter of said flexible hose extending along the entire length of one of its sides, said hollow member having;

a first longitudinally-extending section having a regular polygonal internal cross-section which matches but is slightly larger than the regular polygonal periphery of said support member; and

a second longitudinally-extending section having a cross-section which is smaller than the support member periphery and larger than the circumference of said hose;

whereby, upon positioning said support member in said first longitudinally-extending section said hollow member is capable of removably holding said shower head in a plurality of different rotational positions of said shower head about a second axis, said second axis being generally perpendicular to said single axis.

2. The mounting arrangement according to claim 1 wherein said support member is a plumbing fitting having a hexagonal configuration and the interior walls of said first longitudinally-extending section define a matching hexagonal shape.

3. The mounting arrangement according to claim 2 wherein said bracket member is an L-bracket.

4. The mounting arrangement according to claim 3 wherein said means for rotatably securing comprises a screw member joining said bracket further leg and receiver member along abutting surfaces, and means for frictionally engaging said abutting surfaces to one another.

5. The mounting arrangement according to claim 1 wherein said bracket member is an L-bracket.

6. The mounting arrangement according to claim 1 wherein said means for rotatably securing comprises a screw member joining said further leg and receiver member along abutting surfaces, and means for frictionally engaging said abutting surfaces to one another.