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Shower head with two discharge variations

  • US 5,765,760 A
  • Filed: 11/20/1996
  • Issued: 06/16/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An easy-to-assemble shower head with two discharge variations, comprising:

  • a shower head embodiment having a hollow handle and terminating in an enlarged water discharge head having a sealing groove and a retaining groove on the periphery thereof; and

    said hollow handle terminating in a tubular outlet;

    an O-shaped seal ring housed in said sealing groove of said shower head embodiment;

    a discharge cap integrally produced having an inner diameter slightly larger than said tubular outlet, permitting said cap to be tightly attached to said tubular outlet of said shower head embodiment;

    said discharge cap having two round holes disposed on one side wall thereof and having a retaining recess disposed at a peripheral edge thereof and engaging with a limiting protrusion defined on said tubular outlet so as to stop said cap from rotation;

    an adjusting member integrally formed and having a short cylindrical structure with a plurality of serially spaced gripping grooves defined on the peripheral wall thereof;

    and having a slightly tapered end portion with a retaining flange defined at the edge thereof;

    said adjusting member having a short tubular partition wall supported in place by a plurality of evenly spaced reinforcement ribs at the central portion of said adjusting member so as to permit water to be selectively flowing either inside said tubular partition wall or outside thereof;

    said tubular partition wall having an closed end wall at one end and being opened at the other end;

    at the center of said closed end wall of said tubular partition wall being disposed an innerly threaded tubular post with two outlet holes symmetrically disposed by said post;

    each said outlet hole being provided with a receiving groove at one end thereof for accommodation of a small O-shaped ring;

    a 3-sided water dispensing ring member having an outer peripheral wall and an inner peripheral wall;

    on said outer peripheral wall being disposed a plurality of evenly spaced axially oriented discharge ditches;

    an intermittent discharge cap having a short cylindrical extension with a post having inner threads disposed on the rear side of a front wall of said discharge cap;

    on said front wall being disposed a number of paired intermittent discharge pores;

    a plurality of axially oriented evenly spaced discharge ditches being disposed on the axially tapered outer periphery of said intermittent discharge cap;

    a limiting board for intermittent discharge having a central hole for engagement of itself with said central post of said intermittent discharge cap;

    said central hole having a journalled flange on one side of said limiting board so as to keep the limiting board and the intermittent discharge cap a distance apart;

    said limiting board having an axially extended peripheral wall provided with a plurality of evenly spaced discharge recesses;

    an intermittent discharge wheel having a central tubular sleeve to which are mounted evenly 8 tangentially extended blades and two of said blades being conntected to each other by a stop plate;

    a ring hoop having a certain longitudinal width and having a the same diameter as said ring limiting board so as to permit the ring hoop to be in abutment against the divided wall of said limiting board when positioned end to end in assembly;

    said adjusting member being snapped into engagement with said shower head embodiment after said discharge cap first secured to said tubular outlet of said shower head embodiment;

    then said ring hoop being inserted in said intermittent discharge cap and said intermittent discharge wheel being engaged with said post of said cap;

    next, said limiting board being inserted too in said intermittent discharge cap and abutting against said ring hoop end to end;

    said assembled intermittent discharge cap being housed inside said 3-sided water dispensing ring member;

    said water dispensing ring member along with said assembled intermittent discharge cap being housed inside said adjusting member with said central post of said adjusting member leading through said central hole of said limiting board so as to permit said intermittent discharge cap assembly and said water dispensing ring member to be fixed in place to said adjusting member by a screw;

    whereby water can be discharged either through said intermittent discharge cap when said adjusting member is turned to make said outlet holes of said adjusting member come into registry with said round holes of said discharge cap or through said ditches of said water dispensing ring member and said intermittent discharge cap when said outlet holes of said adjusting member are turned out of registry with said round holes of said discharge cap.

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