Adjustable shower head holder

• US 5,481,765 A
• Filed: 11/29/1994
• Issued: 01/09/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wen-Mu Wang
• Original Assignee: Wen-Mu Wang
• Inventors: Wang, Wen-Mu
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Charles E.
• Application Number:
  US08/350,071
• Time in Patent Office: 406 Days
• Field of Search: 4/567-570, 4/605, 4/615, 4/559, 248/75, 248/220.2, 248/291, 239/283
• US Class Current: 4/605
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 3/28 Showers or bathing douchescombined with baths A47K3/20; nozzles, spray heads B05B1/00 ; means for suspending or supporting the supply pipe or supply hose E03C1/06
• 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

An adjustable shower head holder including a mounting block mounted around the hanging rod of a wall mounting rack, a shower head mount coupled to the mounting block by a locating ring and a socket and a pivot to hold a shower head, and an adjustment knob coupled to the mounting block, and a holding down bolt controlled by the adjustment knob to hold the mounting block and the hanging rod together, wherein the holding down bolt can be released from the hanging rod by turning the adjustment knob relative to the mounting block, permitting the shower head to be adjusted in the X-axis and Y-axis directions; the shower head mount can be tunred relative to the mounting block to adjust the position of the shower head in the Y-axis direction.

Claims

1. An adjustable shower head holder comprising:

a rack having two wall mounting devices fixedly fastened to a wall and a hanging rod connected between said wall mounting devices;

a socket mounted around said hanging rod, said socket comprising a longitudinal coupling hole at one end, a longitudinal axle hole at an opposite end communicated with said longitudinal coupling hole, an annular groove around said longitudinal axle hole, and a latitudinal through hole intersecting said longitudinal coupling hole, which receives said hanging rod;

a mounting block mounted around said hanging rod and received in said socket, said mounting block comprising a longitudinal center through hole, an outer thread around said longitudinal center through hole at one end, a latitudinal through hole intersecting said longitudinal center through hole, which receives said hanging rod, and an inside annular flange concentrically disposed inside said longitudinal center through hole;

an adjustment knob having an inside tube inserted into the longitudinal center through hole of said mounting block, and an inner thread spaced around said inside tube and threaded onto said outer thread of said mounting block;

a holding down bolt received in said inside tube, having a from end inserted through said inside annular flange of said mounting block and forced by said adjustment knob against said hanging rod, said bolt having a collar disposed between said inside tube of said adjustment knob and said inside annular flange of said mounting block;

a shower head mount fastened to said socket for holding a shower head, said shower head mount comprising a screw receiving hole and a coupling hole longitudinally aligned at one end, an annular groove at said one end disposed around the coupling hole of said shower head mount, and a hanging hole latitudinally disposed at an opposite end for hanging a shower head;

a shower head hung on the hanging hole of said shower head mount;

a locating ring coupled between said socket and said shower head mount, said locating ring having a first annular flange at one end fitted into said annular groove on said shower head mount, and a second annular flange at an opposite end fitted into the annular groove on said socket;

a headed pivot received inside said socket and stopped at one end against said mounting block, said headed pivot having a coupling end extended through the axle hole on said socket and fitted into the coupling hole on said shower head mount and prohibited from rotary motion relative to said shower head mount, and having a through hole with a countersunk hole at an end opposite said coupling end;

a friction ring mounted around said headed pivot and stopped inside said socket by a land area surrounding said axle hole of said socket; and

a headed screw inserted through the countersunk hole of said headed pivot and threaded into the screw receiving hole on said shower head mount to connect said shower head mount to said socket; and

wherein said adjustment knob can be loosened from said mounting block to release said holding down bolt from said hanging rod, permitting said mounting block and said socket to be moved along or turned about said hanging rod to adjust the position of said shower head and said shower head mount can be turned relative to said socket to adjust the position of said shower head.

2. The adjustable shower head holder of claim 1 wherein said hanging rod comprises a plurality of spiral strips raised around the periphery.