ADJUSTABLE SHOWER APPARATUS

• US 3,685,745 A
• Filed: 05/19/1971
• Issued: 08/22/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Andreas D. Peschcke-Koedt
• Original Assignee: Andreas D. Peschcke-Koedt
• Inventors: Peschcke-Koedt, Andreas D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wood, Jr., M. Henson
• Assistant Examiner(s): Love, John J.
• Application Number:
  US05/144,864
• Time in Patent Office: 461 Days
• Field of Search: 239/587,588
• US Class Current: 239/587.2
• 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

Abstract

Improved apparatus for mounting a device, such as a shower head, to extend at a preselected angle to the horizontal in all positions of vertical adjustment thereof. The apparatus includes an elongated element having one end swingable about a mounting adapted to be fixedly positioned such as to a wall. The shower head is connected to the other end and means are provided for maintaining a desired angular disposition of the shower head notwithstanding a swinging of the elongated element about the first end.

Claims

1. Shower apparatus comprising:

a shower head connector adapted to carry a shower head;

a wall mounting water supply connector;

a duct having a first end connected rotatably about a first horizontal axis in water transfer association with said wall mounting connector, and a second end movably connected in water transfer association with said shower head connector for rotation of said shower head connector about a second horizontal axis at said second end extending parallel to said first axis and swingable in an arc about said first axis as a result of swinging of said duct about said first axis;

a substantially nontwistable flexible connector extending longitudinally through said duct and having first and second ends;

means fixedly connecting said first duct end to said wall mounting connector; and

means fixedly connecting said second duct end to said shower head connector, said one duct end extending perpendicularly to a plane perpendicular to said axes and said second duct end extending oppositely perpendicularly to said plane whereby said shower head connector pivots about said second axis oppositely equiangularly relative to a pivoting of said duct one end about said first axis to maintain a desired angle of a shower head carried by said shower head connector to the horizontal in all positions of swinging of said duct about said first axis.

2. The shower apparatus of claim 1 wherein said flexible connector comprises a helically wound element.

3. The shower apparatus of claim 1 wherein said flexible connector comprises a cable.

4. The shower apparatus of claim 1 wherein said flexible connector comprises a tube.

5. The shower apparatus of claim 1 wherein said flexible connector is hollow and has an outer surface substantially similar to the inner surface of said duct.

6. The shower apparatus of claim 1 wherein said flexible connector has an outer cross-section substantially smaller than the inner cross-section of said duct for permitting water flow through the space in said duct outwardly of said flexible connector.

7. Shower apparatus comprising:

a shower head connector;

a wall mounting water supply connector;

a duct having a turned first end connected rotatably about a first horizontal axis in water transfer association with said wall mounting connector, and a second oppositely turned end movably connected in water transfer association with said shower head connector for rotation of said shower heaD connector about a second horizontal axis at said second end extending parallel to said first axis and swingable in an arc about said first axis as a result of swinging of said duct about said first axis;

a substantially nontwistable flexible connector extending longitudinally through said duct and having first and second ends extending parallel to and disposed within said duct first and second turned ends respectively;

means fixedly connecting said first duct end to said wall mounting connector; and

means fixedly connecting said second duct end to said shower head connector, said one duct end extending perpendicularly to a plane perpendicular to said axes and said second duct end extending oppositely perpendicularly to said plane whereby said shower head pivots about said second axis oppositely equiangularly relative to a pivoting of said duct one end about said first axis to maintain a desired angle of the shower head carried by said shower head connector to the horizontal in all positions of swinging of said duct about said first axis.

8. The shower apparatus of claim 7 wherein said duct is serpentine.

9. The shower apparatus of claim 1 wherein said duct is S-shaped.

10. The shower apparatus of claim 1 wherein said duct is curved between said duct ends, and said duct ends are rectilinear.

11. The shower apparatus of claim 1 wherein said flexible connector is provided with a rigid end portion at each of said first and second ends thereof, and said connecting means comprises means locking said rigid end portions to said wall mounting connector and shower head connector respectively.

12. The shower apparatus of claim 11 wherein said rigid end portions are tubular.

13. The shower apparatus of claim 7 wherein said shower head connector is arranged to maintain a shower head carried thereby at a downward angle to the horizontal of approximately 45* at all positions of said duct.