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US 2001/0019083 A1Published application
Rotary shower nozzle
OwnerKipley Roydon Marksinventor
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Abstract
A rotary spray nozzle is provided in a housing which has one or more water inlets that direct the incoming water flow in a direction tangential to the inner walls of the housing. This creates a circular or swirling motion of water within the housing which in turn imparts a rotary motion to the nozzle. The liquid or water in the housing exits the housing through the rotating nozzle to thereby provide a rotary spray.
Claims21
Rotary nozzle spray apparatus including:
- a housing having walls, a housing outlet aperture, and housing inlet means to allow liquid to enter the housing;
- a rotary nozzle means supported within the housing, the rotary nozzle means having a nozzle inlet to allow liquid in the housing to enter the rotary nozzle means, and a nozzle outlet to spray liquid from the apparatus through the housing outlet aperture;
- wherein the housing inlet means directs liquid entering the housing in a direction substantially tangential to the walls of the housing to create a circular motion in the liquid in the housing so as to induce a substantial rotational motion in the rotary nozzle means about a central axis of the housing.
Rotary nozzle spray apparatus including:
- a housing having walls, a housing outlet aperture, and housing inlet means to allow liquid to enter the housing;
- a rotary nozzle means provided within the housing, the rotary nozzle means having a nozzle inlet to allow liquid in the housing to enter the rotary nozzle means, and a nozzle outlet to spray liquid from the apparatus;
- wherein a surface adjacent to the nozzle outlet is use bearing against a surface adjacent to the housing outlet aperture under pressure of liquid within the housing to form a substantial seal therebetween.
Rotary nozzle spray apparatus including:
- a housing having walls, a housing outlet aperture, and housing inlet means to allow liquid to enter the housing;
- a rotary nozzle means supported within the housing, the rotary nozzle means having a nozzle inlet to allow liquid in the housing to enter the rotary nozzle means, and a nozzle outlet to spray liquid from the apparatus through the housing outlet aperture;
- wherein the housing inlet means directs liquid entering the housing in a direction substantially tangential to the walls of the housing to create a swirling motion in the liquid in the housing so as to induce a substantial rotational motion in the rotary nozzle means about a central axis of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.