Shower
AssigneeDLP Limited
InventorIain Stuart Fenna
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Abstract
A shower-screen pivot device comprises a seating element mountable to a shower surface, and a screen-support element for supporting at least part of a shower screen. The seating element has a first panel-pivot element, and the screen-support element has a second panel-pivot element which is engagable with the first panel-pivot element. When interengaged, the first and second panel-pivot elements are rotatable relative to each other about a panel-pivot axis P which is parallel to a base of the seating element. This enables an installer to semi-erect a shower-screen panel with a lower edge watertightly sealed, and leave it unattended and self-supported whilst attending to other panels.
Claims12
A shower-screen pivot device comprising:
- a seating element to mount to a shower surface, the seating element having a first panel-pivot element;
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- a screen-support element to support at least part of a shower screen, the screen-support element having a second panel-pivot element to engage with the first panel-pivot element, so that, when interengaged, the first and second panel-pivot elements are rotatable relative to each other about a panel-pivot axis which is parallel to a base of the seating element;
- wherein the screen-support element has a depending front wall having an inner surface which engages with a sealing element interposed between the first and second panel-pivot elements.
A shower comprising:
- a shower tray;
- at least one shower-screen panel;
- a seating element mounted to a shower surface of the shower tray, the seating element having a first pivot element;
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- a screen-support element extending along a lower edge of the shower-screen panel, the screen-support element having a second pivot element, the first and second pivot elements engaged to form a pivot axis which is parallel to a base of the seating element, whereby the at least one shower-screen panel, whilst mounted to the shower tray, can tilt from the vertical when mounted to the screen-support element, the screen-support element further having a depending front wall having an inner surface which engages with a sealing element interposed between the first and second pivot elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.