Shower arm extension

• US 5,022,103 A
• Filed: 05/26/1989
• Issued: 06/11/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thomas E. Quick
• Original Assignee: Thomas E. Quick
• Inventors: Faist, Kenneth B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Artis, Henry K.
• Application Number:
  US07/357,207
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• Field of Search: 4/596, 4/605, 4/559, 4/567-570, 4/615, 4/620, 4/597, 4/599, 4/606, 4/612, 4/661, 239/211, 239/446
• US Class Current: 4/596
• 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

An extension pipe for raising the elevation of a shower head comprising an S-shaped length of pipe having external threads on each end thereof, the lower end being a straight horizontal section of pipe and the upper end being directed downwardly from about 15° to about 45° below horizontal.

Claims

1. A shower arm extension adapted to be connected to a water pipe connection behind a vertical wall of a shower comprising a single, integral, rigid, attractive, elongated, cylindrical water pipe having a central portion and an upper end portion and a lower end portion, said upper end portion having a free end with external pipe threads onto which a threaded shower head is attachable, said lower end portion having a free end with external threads to be fitted into an internally threaded pipe coupling within a wall of a shower, said lower end portion being substantially straight and horizontally extending to a point generally midway of the entire horizontal distance between said free ends of said upper and lower end portions, said free end of said upper portion being substantially straight and having a longitudinal axis disposed downwardly from a horizontal plane from about 15°

to about 45°

, said central portion having a pair of generally equal and spaced bends and a substantially straight portion therebetween to define a substantially S-shaped central portion, said bends being connected respectively to said upper and lower end portions with all said portions being in a substantially vertical plane when said extension is installed in a shower, said shower arm extension configured such that where installed in a vertical shower wall said lower end portion extends horizontally outwardly through a passageway in a vertical shower wall, said extension being turned about a longitudinal axis of said lower end portion to cause said external threads to engage an internally threaded pipe coupling within a vertical wall of a shower without an upper one of said bends of said central portion of said upper end portion touching a vertical wall or a ceiling defining a shower, said upper end being located closely adjacent a wall defining a shower when said lower end portion is connected to an internally threaded pipe coupling, said extension extending horizontally outwardly from an internally threaded pipe coupling proceeding upwardly in said lower bend and said straight portion toward a wall of a shower in which an internally threaded coupling is located and proceeding upwardly in said upper bend to said upper straight portion extending outwardly and disposed downwardly from said horizontal plane.

2. The shower arm extension of claim 1 wherein said S-shaped portion includes a pair of bends each having generally the same radius from spaced centers, said direction of said upper end being generally tangential with respect to said radius of said spaced center of the upper one of said bends.

3. The shower arm extension of claim 1 wherein said S-shaped mid-portion includes a pair of bends each having generally the same radius from spaced centers, said downward direction being generally perpendicular to a line between said centers of said bends.

4. The shower arm extension of claim 1 wherein said S-shaped mid-portion includes an upper and a lower bend each having generally the same radius from spaced centers, said center of said lower bend being disposed closely to a vertical wall when said extension is connected to a water pipe and said center of said upper bend being disposed closely to a vertical plane passing through said end of said upper end portion.