Shower head

• US 4,669,666 A
• Filed: 02/07/1986
• Issued: 06/02/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hans Grohe GmbH & Co. KG.
• Original Assignee: Hans Grohe GmbH & Co. KG.
• Inventors: Finkbeiner, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): Kashnikow, Andres
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/827,329
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 239/436, 239/437, 239/438, 239/442, 239/448, 239/449, 239/456, 239/583
• US Class Current: 239/438
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/3086 the controlling element being a grooved body, which is movable in the outlet orifice

Abstract

A shower head contains a cup-shaped casing with a longitudinally displaceably held core part, for whose displacement an eccentrically-mounted circular disc engages in an opening of the core part. The eccentrically-mounted circular disc contains an eccentrically arranged hole, through which engages a square section of an adjusting member. Within the casing, the adjusting member is mounted in a sleeve in part of the shower head which does not carry water. The adjusting member does not require packings.

Claims

1. A shower head, comprising:

a cup-shaped casing and a core part displaceably mounted within the casing for modifying a spray pattern of the shower head, displacement of the core part in the casing being controllable by means of a cam with an eccentrically-mounted circular disc engaging in a circular opening of the core part, an adjusting member mounted in the casing and accessible from outside the casing being connectable to the cam, the eccentrically-mounted circular disc having an eccentrically positioned hole, through which can be passed a pin forming a pivot pin of the adjusting member for rotationally fixing the adjusting member and the disc.

4. A shower head according to claim 1, wherein the casing has an internal coaxial and approximately cylindrical shoulder through which water is passed and which is traversed by a sleeve past which the water laterally flows.

5. A shower head according to claim 4, wherein the core part is slidingly guided on the shoulder.

6. A shower head according to claim 4, wherein the core part has a thickened wall at least in a vicinity of an engagement opening in the core part receiving the eccentrically mounted circular disc.

7. A shower head according to claim 4, wherein the inner shoulder and the core part are each provided with a plurality of radial openings adjacent an outer end of the inner shoulder.

8. A shower head according to claim 7, wherein the core part has a second set of openings.

9. A shower head according to claim 8, wherein in one position of the core part, the openings of the inner shoulder are connected to the first set of openings, and in a second position the openings of the inner shoulder are connected with the second set of openings.

10. A shower head according to claim 1, wherein the pivot pin has a cross-sectionally rectangular square shaped part and the eccentrically-mounted circular disc has a correspondingly shaped hole for receiving the pin.

11. A shower head according to claim 1, wherein the pin is held in the core part at an inner end of the pin.

12. A shower head according to claim 1, wherein a packing is arranged between the core part and the casing in a region between the pivot pin of the adjusting member and a water jet outlet.

13. A shower head according to claim 1, wherein the core part is guided on the casing over at least roughly half a length of the core part.

14. A shower head according to claim 13, wherein the core part is guided on an inner shoulder the casing.

15. A shower head according to claim 11, wherein the pin is held in lockable manner at the inner end of the pin.

2. A shower head, comprising:

a cup-shaped casing and a core part displaceably mounted within the casing for modifying a spray pattern of the shower head, displacement of the core part being controllable by means of a cam with an eccentrically-mounted circular disc engaging in a circular opening of the core part, an adjusting member mounted in the casing and accessible from outside the casing being operable to rotate the cam, the adjusting member being arranged within the casing and the adjusting member extending transversely through a longitudinal center of the casing.

3. A shower head according to claim 2, wherein a pivot pin of the adjusting member is mounted in a sleeve passing transversely through a part of the casing defining a water flow path.

16. A shower head, comprising:

a cup-shaped casing and a core part displaceably mounted in the casing for modifying a spray pattern of the shower head, the core part being rotatable and displaceable on a longitudinal axis relative to the casing, the core part being positionable by means of a cam rotatable using an adjustment member, the cam having an eccentrically-mounted circular disc engaging in a circular opening of the core part, the longitudinal axis of the circular opening of the core part and the eccentrically mounted circular disc being oriented orthogonally to said longitudinal axis, whereby rotating the adjustment member causes rotation and displacement of the core part in the casing.

17. A shower head according to claim 16, wherein an outer edge of the eccentrically-mounted circular disc has an arcuate shape in radial cross-section.

18. A shower head according to claim 17, wherein the circular opening of the core part has an arcuate edge at least in a radial cross-section at right angles to a rotation axis of the core part in the casing and this edge has a same curvature as that of an outer edge of the