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Showerhead with integrated soap dispenser

  • US 5,562,248 A
  • Filed: 12/27/1994
  • Issued: 10/08/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A showerhead and soap dispensing system, including an input conduit of pressurized water and a refillable soap containing enclosure having an output thereof, the system comprising:

  • (a) a frusto conical-body including a venturi-defining bore surface, said body including an axial water input at an apex thereof, said body including a water output at a base thereof, said body further including an internal annular channel in a radial plane of said body, said channel having a soap-receiving input conduit upstream of said channel and in fluid communication with said output of said soap-containing enclosure, said annular channel having, within said shower head body, a polar plurality of output apertures in a radial plane downstream of said channel; and

    (b) a frusto-conical plug comprising;

    (i) a hollow upstream portion having a mouth proportioned for rotatable registration within said axial fluid input of said body, said hollow portion of said plug including, at a downstream radius thereof, a polar multiplicity of water exit apertures disposed, upon registration of said plug within said body, upstream of said soap output apertures of said annular channel of said body; and

    (ii) a downstream solid portion integral with said upstream hollow portion, said downstream portion having an external concave surface of rotation which, in combination with said venturi bore surface of said body, defines an annular water and soap lathering chamber downstream of said water exit apertures of said upstream portion of said plug, said chamber including a radial plain defined by said polar plurality of soap output apertures, said concave surface of rotation widening outwardly toward said venturi-defining bore surface of said shower head body to thereby maximize fluid pressure within said lathering chamber,whereby the mixing characteristic of the respective water and liquid soap apertures within said lathering chamber may be adjusted by selectable rotation of said plug relative to said body.

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