Shower head

• US 5,718,380 A
• Filed: 07/28/1995
• Issued: 02/17/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hans Grohe GmbH & Co. KG.
• Original Assignee: Hans Grohe GmbH & Co. KG.
• Inventors: Schorn, Franz, Blessing, Gerd
• Primary Examiner(s): Kashnikow, Andres
• Assistant Examiner(s): EVANS, ROBIN OCTAVIA
• Application Number:
  US08/508,927
• Time in Patent Office: 935 Days
• Field of Search: 239/104, 239/106, 239/114, 239/115, 239/116, 239/117, 239/123, 239/380, 239/381
• US Class Current: 239/117
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/18 Roses; Shower heads with means for adding soap or the like E03C1/046; jet regulators E03C1/08
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 15/5225 the cleaning element being located upstream of the discharge opening or being actuated upstream therefrom
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 3/04 driven by the liquid or other fluent material discharged, e.g. the liquid actuating a motor before passing to the outlet B05B3/023 takes precedence

Abstract

A shower having a shower head and a jet disk with a plurality of jet exit openings contains a cleaning device, which within the shower head has for each jet exit opening a pin, which is insertable in and reextractable from the jet exit opening. For moving the pins of the cleaning device a turbine is provided, which is driven by the water flowing into the shower head.

Claims

1. Shower having a shower head, a jet disk with a plurality of jet exit openings, a water passage leading to the jet disk, a cleaning device having a plurality of pins arranged in an axial extension of the jet exit openings and which can be moved into and out of said openings, a drive having a rotary curved guide for the pins and having a tooth system in operative connection with a turbine of the drive, the turbine being drivable by water flowing to the jet exit openings thereby driving the pins in a reciprocating manner.

2. Shower according to claim 1, wherein the pins are combined into pin groups drivable by the drive.

3. Shower according to claim 2, wherein the pins of two groups have in a specific position of the drive a different position.

4. Shower according to claim 1, wherein the pins are arranged along a circle.

5. Shower according to claim 2, wherein with respect to several groups of pins, only the pins of one group are located in the jet exit openings.

6. Shower according to claim 1, wherein when the water passage is switched off all the pins are disengaged from the jet exit openings.

7. Shower according to claim 2, wherein the groups of pins extend over in each case one circular arc and adjacent groups assume different positions in the movement direction.

8. Shower according to claim 1, wherein the pins are arranged along two concentric circles.

9. Shower according to claim 8, wherein the pins of adjacent circles belong to different groups of pins.

10. Shower according to claim 1 with an additional, manually operable device for operating the cleaning device.

11. Shower according to claim 10, wherein the manually operable device is operable by action on the jet disk.

12. Shower having a shower head, a jet disk with a plurality of jet exit openings a water passage leading to the jet disk, a cleaning device having a plurality of pins arranged in an axial extension of the jet exit openings and which can be moved into and out of said openings, a drive, which is drivable by water flowing to the jet exit openings and drives the pins in a reciprocating manner, wherein the jet disk is manually operable to operate the cleaning device and wherein the drive has a barrier for preventing a rearward movement of the drive and which is located between a rotating part and a fixed part of the shower.

13. Shower according to claim 12, wherein the barrier has a resilient tongue placed on one shower head part and which resiliently engages on the other shower head part and has a stop shoulder running transversely to the rotation direction.

14. Shower according to claim 12, wherein the stop shoulder is formed by the end of a pocket-like recess in the shower head part and which is wedge-shaped in the rotation direction.

15. Shower according to claim 12, wherein the barrier is provided between a rotary curved guide for moving the pins and a shower head part.

16. Shower according to claim 13, wherein two resilient tongues are shaped in diametral manner on the curved guide.

17. Shower according to claim 13, wherein four stop shoulders are uniformly distributed over the circumference.