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US 12,305,370 B2Granted
Sanitary faucet having a hose
AssigneeGrohe AG
InventorsChristian Kutsch, Wulf Woesthoff, Matthias Schlueter
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Abstract
A sanitary faucet (1) having at least: a faucet housing (2) having an outlet (3) and an outlet opening (4); and a hose (5) made of silicone having at least one first lumen (6) for routing a first liquid from a first source of liquid (7) to the outlet opening (4), a second lumen (8) for routing a second liquid from a second source of liquid (9) to the outlet opening (4) and a third lumen (10) for routing a third liquid from a third source of liquid (11) to the outlet opening (4), wherein the hose (5) contains at least in part a jacket (12).
Claims14
A sanitary faucet (1) comprising:
- a faucet housing (2) having an outlet (3) and an outlet opening (4);
- and
- a single hose (5) made of silicone, the single hose (5) having a first lumen (6), a second lumen (8), and a third lumen (10) running parallel through the single hose (5),
- wherein the first lumen (6) routes a first liquid from a first source of liquid (7) to the outlet opening (4),
- wherein the second lumen (8) routes a second liquid from a second source of liquid (9) to the outlet opening (4), and
- wherein the third lumen (10) routes a third liquid from a third source of liquid (11) to the outlet opening (4),
- wherein the single hose (5) has a first partition (27) separating the first lumen (6) from the second lumen (8) and the third lumen (10) such that the first lumen (6) has an orthogonal cross-section (15) to a longitudinal axis of the single hose (5) that is a semicircle,
- wherein the single hose (5) has a second partition (28) separating the second lumen (8) and the third lumen (10) such that both the second lumen (8) and the third lumen (10) have orthogonal cross-sections (16, 17) to the longitudinal axis of the single hose (5) that are quarter circles, and
- wherein the hose (5) comprises at least in part a jacket (12).
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