Mounting bracket for hand shower

• US 5,265,833 A
• Filed: 07/07/1992
• Issued: 11/30/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Friedrich Grohe AG & Co. KG (LIXIL Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Friedrich Grohe AG (LIXIL Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Heimann, Bruno, Hochstein, Detlef
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, HIEN HUY
• Application Number:
  US07/909,956
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 248/75, 248/291, 248/220.2, 4/615, 239/273, 239/282, 239/530, 239/600
• 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: E03C 1/066 allowing height adjustment of shower head
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 11/103 frictionally clamped

Abstract

A mounting bracket for a hand shower having a support stem has a support adapted to be stationarily fixed, a holder formed with a forked seat shaped to receive the hand-shower stem, and interengaging formations on the holder and support for pivoting of the holder on the support about a normally horizontal axis while retaining the holder and support against relative axial movement. An array of radially extending ridges formed on the support, surrounding the axis, and projecting toward the holder engage with complementary ridges formed on a flange of a retaining element rotationally coupled to the holder. A locking bolt axially fixed in the support axially presses the retaining-element ridges against the support ridges so that the holder can be pivoted about the axis on the support with elastic deformation of the flange.

Claims

1. A mounting bracket for a hand shower having a support stem, the mounting bracket comprising:

a support adapted to be stationarily fixed;

a holder formed with a forked seat shaped to receive the hand-shower stem;

interengaging formations on the holder and on the support for pivoting of the holder on the support about a normally horizontal axis while retaining the holder and support against relative axial movement;

an array of radially extending ridges formed on the support, surrounding the axis, and projecting toward the holder;

a retaining element having at least one elastically deformable flange formed with radially extending ridges interfitting with and complementary to the ridges of the support;

formations rotationally coupling the retaining element to the holder; and

a locking bolt axially fixed in the support and axially pressing the retaining-element ridges against the support ridges, whereby the holder can be pivoted about the axis on the support with elastic deformation of the flange.

2. The hand-shower mounting bracket defined in claim 1 wherein the flange is inclined at an angle of about 5°

to the axis.

3. The hand-shower mounting bracket defined in claim 1 wherein the flange is comprised of a plurality of identical circularly segmental segments.

4. The hand-shower mounting bracket defined in claim 1 wherein the flange has about 54 such ridges which have flank angles of about 100°

.

5. The hand-shower mounting bracket defined in claim 1 wherein the bolt has axially extending legs having outwardly projecting feet that are elastically radially deflectable and that are axially engaged with the support.

6. The hand-shower mounting bracket defined in claim 1 wherein the rotational-coupling formations include

radially outwardly projecting fins formed on the retaining element, and

respective radially inwardly open seats formed on the holder and receiving the fins.

7. The hand-shower mounting bracket defined in claim 1 wherein the locking bolt is tubular and the holder is formed of

an outer part formed with the forked seat and formed on the axis with a pin engaging coaxially in the locking bolt, and

an annular inner part fixed on the outer part and formed with a radially open groove,

the support having an annular array snap fingers with radially projecting ends engaged in the groove, the array being centered on the axis.

8. The hand-shower mounting bracket defined in claim 7 wherein the groove of the inner part opens radially outward, the bracket further comprising

a cover ring overlying the snap fingers and retaining the fingers in the inner-part groove.

9. The hand-shower mounting bracket defined in claim 1 wherein the support, holder, element, and locking bolt are all made of plastic.

10. The hand-shower mounting bracket defined in claim 1, further comprising:

a vertical support rod, the support being formed with a vertically throughgoing passage through which the rod passes; and

a threaded clamp element threaded in the support and engageable with the rod to lock the support on the rod at any position therealong.

11. A mounting bracket for a hand shower having a support stem, the mounting bracket comprising:

a support adapted to be stationarily fixed and formed with a centering tube centered on a normally horizontal axis;

a holder formed with

a forked seat shaped to receive the hand-shower stem,

a cylindrical centering rod extending along the axis and having a predetermined outside diameter;

interengaging formations on the holder and on the support for pivoting of the holder on the support about the horizontal axis while retaining the holder and support against relative axial movement;

an array of ridges formed on the support, extending perpendicularly to and radially with respect to the axis, and projecting axially toward the holder;

a retaining element having at least one elastically deformable flange formed with radially extending ridges interfitting with and complementary to the ridges of the support;

formations rotationally coupling the retaining element to the holder; and

a tubular locking bolt axially fixed in the centering tube of the support and axially pressing the retaining-element ridges against the support ridges, whereby the holder can be pivoted about the axis on the support with elastic deformation of the flange, the centering pin of the holder fitting coaxially in the bolt.