Shower holder for use with a wall rod

• US 5,277,391 A
• Filed: 11/22/1991
• Issued: 01/11/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hans Grohe GmbH & Co. KG.
• Original Assignee: Hans Grohe GmbH & Co. KG.
• Inventors: Haug, Andreas, Faisst, Magdalena, Schonherr, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): GIBSON, ROBERT W
• Application Number:
  US07/796,407
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• Field of Search: 248/219.3, 248/218.4, 248/230, 248/295.1, 248/316.7, 248/75, 4/695, 4/605, 4/615
• US Class Current: 248/219.3
• 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

Abstract

A shower holder for the mounting support of a hand-held shower on a wall rod contains a guidance element displaceably guided on the outside of the wall rod and whose length is at least twice as large as the wall rod diameter. With the aid of at least one strut a mounting support for the hand-held shower is fixed to the guidance element and has a spacing from the wall rod which is at least as large as the length of the guidance element.

Claims

1. A shower holder for use with a wall rod comprising:

a guidance element, which is displaceably connected to the wall rod and is guided thereon at least two points, whose spacing measured in the longitudinal direction of the wall rod is at least twice as large as the diameter of the wall rod;

a mounting support for holding the shower, which is connected to the guidance element and has a spacing from the guidance element which is at least as large as the spacing of the two guidance points from one another;

the mounting support being connected by means of a strut to the guidance element, and wherein the strut slopes with respect to the direction of the wall rod in such a way that the mounting support, considered in the longitudinal direction of the wall rod, is positioned substantially centrally between the two guidance points.

2. A shower holder according to claim 1, wherein the mounting support includes a pivotable holding device for the shower.

3. A shower holder according to claim 1, wherein the strut is forked.

4. A shower holder according to claim 1, wherein the guidance element surrounds the wall rod at at least the two guidance points and is guided on the outside of said wall rod.

5. A shower holder according to claim 4, wherein the guidance element has a tubular casing, which is engaged on the wall rod.

6. A shower holder according to claim 4, wherein the guidance element contains a tubular element, which can be engaged on the wall rod.

7. A shower holder according to claim 1, wherein the friction between the guidance element and the wall rod is kept within narrow limits.

8. A shower holder according to claim 7, further comprising an adjusting device for adjustment of the friction.

9. A shower holder according to claim 1, wherein a positive fixing of the guidance element on the wall rod can be removed.

10. A shower holder according to claim 6, wherein the guidance element is rotatable with respect to its tubular element.

11. A shower holder according to claim 1, wherein the guidance element is constructed as a gripping element.

12. A shower holder according to claim 1, wherein the guidance element comprises a casing formed from two halves.

13. A shower holder for use with a wall rod comprising:

a guidance element, which is displaceably connected to the wall rod and is guided thereon at at least two points, whose spacing measured in the longitudinal direction of the wall rod is at least twice as large as the diameter of the wall rod;

a mounting support for holding the shower, which is connected to that guidance element and has a spacing from the guidance element which is at least as large as the spacing of the two guidance points from one another, and wherein the mounting support is connected by means of two struts to the guidance element.

14. A shower holder according to claim 13, wherein the two struts converge from the wall rod and the mounting support.

15. A shower holder according to claim 13, wherein the strut leading upwards from the guidance element to the mounting support is forked.

16. A shower holder according to claim 13, wherein a strut is constructed as a grip.

17. A shower holder according to claim 13, wherein the struts and the guidance element form a substantially triangular clip.

18. A shower holder for use with a wall rod, comprising:

a sliding element having an internal passage for displaceably receiving the wall rod;

a mounting support for removably holding a shower structure;

spacing structure for connecting said mounting support to said sliding element at a spaced distance therefrom, said spacing structure being constructed to define an opening in a direction substantially transverse to the alignment of the mounting support and the sliding element, and wherein the spacing structure includes an upper support extending from the sliding element to the mounting support and a lower support extending from the sliding element to the mounting support, the transverse opening being defined between the upper support and the lower support.

19. A shower holder according to claim 18, wherein the lower support is forked to define an opening which converges in a direction from the mounting support to the sliding element.

20. A shower holder according to claim 18, wherein the upper support has a convexly curved upper surface from the sliding element to the mounting support and the lower support has a convexly curved lower surface from the sliding element to the mounting support.

21. The holder according to claim 20, wherein the upper support and the lower support have outer faces in the transverse direction which are substantially planar.

22. The holder according to claim 20, wherein the lower surface of the upper support is concavely curved from the sliding element to the mounting support and the upper surface of the lower support is concavely curved from the sliding element to the mounting support.

23. The holder according to claim 21, wherein a lower surface of the upper support and an upper surface of the lower support are convexly concaved in the transverse direction.

24. The holder according to claim 18, wherein the upper support engages an upper end of the sliding element and the lower support engages a lower end of the sliding element.

25. The holder according to claim 18, wherein the sliding element is substantially cylindrical.

26. The holder according to claim 18, wherein the upper support and the lower support converge on the mounting support so that the mounting support is substantially vertically centered relative to the sliding element.

27. The holder according to claim 18, wherein a substantially spherical member is connected to the mounting support for holding the shower structure, wherein said sphere is held by support structure onto which the upper support and lower support converge.

28. The holder according to claim 18 wherein the sliding element comprises a vertical longitudinal seam.

29. The holder according to claim 19, wherein the forked opening is sufficiently wide adjacent the mounting support to allow movement of the shower structure in the opening.

30. The holder according to claim 18, wherein the upper support and the lower support converge on the mounting support so that the upper support, the mounting support and the lower support form a generally convex, outer circular curvature on an outer surface thereof and a generally concave, inner circular curvature on an inner surface thereof, the radius of the inner circular curvature being larger than the radius of the outer circular curvature.

31. The holder according to claim 18, wherein an upper surface of the upper support, an outer surface of the mounting support and a lower surface of the lower support collectively form a U-shape surface opening toward the sliding element.

32. The holder to according to claim 18, wherein lateral outer surfaces of the mounting support and spacing structure are located substantially in two parallel planes.

33. The holder according to claim 18, wherein a release knob is disposed on the sliding element in the direction of the transverse opening.

34. The holder according to claim 33, wherein the transverse opening is sufficiently large to permit user access to the knob.

35. The holder according to claim 21, wherein the transverse opening is sufficiently large to permit grasping of the cylindrical portion of the sliding element by a user'"'"'s hand.

36. The holder according to claim 27, wherein the substantially spherical member is pivotable relative to the mounting support.