Wall-cantilevered showering apparatus

• US 5,148,556 A
• Filed: 08/29/1990
• Issued: 09/22/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: John E. Bottoms Jr, Veronica M. Bottoms
• Original Assignee: John E. Bottoms Jr, Veronica M. Bottoms
• Inventors: Bottoms, Veronica M., Bottoms, John E. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Charles E.
• Application Number:
  US07/583,072
• Time in Patent Office: 755 Days
• Field of Search: 4/567-570, 4/601-603, 4/605, 4/615, 239/272, 239/279, 239/282, 239/283
• US Class Current: 4/567
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 3/281 Accessories for showers or bathing douches, e.g. cleaning devices for walls or floors of showers A47K3/30, A47K3/38, A47K3/40 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 3/287 Shower rings, i.e. perforated hollow rings worn on the neck of the bather
• 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 improved stationary showering apparatus configured substantially as a loop water-manifold to be mounted overhead while one is standing thereunder; including a header plate mechanically affixed to an existing shower water-outlet pipe via a mechanical grip attachment sleeve with the header plate supporting a substantially ring like water-manifold showering device therefrom in a cantilevered fashion.

Claims

1. A water showering apparatus provided with convenient mounting around an existing water supply pipe against an existing vertical wall of a stall-shower or tub-shower installation comprising:

a generally vertical rigid header plate having a water manifold portion cantilevered from an upper portion thereof;

said water manifold portion extending away from said header plate and including a plurality of spaced shower heads;

a fluid conduit arranged in communication between said existing water supply pipe and said water manifold, to provide for flow of water through said manifold and said shower heads;

said header plate includes a flat rigid substantially vertical surface area formed on one side thereof and having an aperture formed therethrough to accommodate said existing water supply pipe, the surface opposite said one side including a gripper sleeve formed around said aperture including an outwardly projecting threaded sleeve portion having a plurality of gripper sleeve fingers;

a nut having threads which cooperate with the threads of said sleeve portion such that when said nut is threaded onto said sleeve portion said fingers will be biased into peripheral contact with said water supply pipe with said vertical surface area forced against said existing vertical wall to thereby provide support for said cantilevered water manifold.

2. A wall supported showering apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the said water manifold portion is of a substantially annular formation as viewed in planview.

3. A wall supported showering apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said water manifold is substantially circular in plan view formation, wherein the cross-section thereof is a self-supporting tubular formation capable of feeding water within to said plurality of spaced showerheads.

4. A wall supported showering apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said fluid conduit includes a substantially conventional 3-way divertor valve member enabling the user to thereby manually select use of:

a.) the existing wall supply pipe or b) said shower manifold, or the combination of both.

5. A wall supported showering apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said said heuter plate includes right and left support arm like entities stemming outward therefrom so as to uphold said water manifold portion;

hence, effectively directing the prevailing outward load component of said cantilevered manifold downward through said header plate and against said existing wall surface.