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US 2024/0278264 A1Published application
Hand shower including a plurality of cleaning modes
AssigneeDelta Faucet Company
InventorsXiongBo Fu, Junxiang Luo
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Abstract
A hand shower including a handle supporting a water passageway and a sprayhead, and a user interface for controlling different cleaning modes from a cleaning nozzle assembly angularly offset from a sprayface.
Claims30
A hand shower comprising:
- a handle;
- a water passageway received within the handle and defining a water inlet;
- a sprayhead operably coupled to the handle and including a sprayface defining a longitudinal sprayhead axis, the sprayface having a plurality of water outlets;
- a cleaning nozzle assembly supported by the sprayhead, the cleaning nozzle assembly including a cleaning stream nozzle and a cleaning spray nozzle;
- a valve assembly fluidly coupled to the water passageway;
- a user interface operably coupled to the valve assembly to toggle the valve assembly between a plurality of modes of operation including a normal mode of operation, a first cleaning mode of operation and a second cleaning mode of operation;
- wherein in the normal mode of operation, the water inlet is in fluid communication with at least some of the plurality of water outlets of the sprayface;
- wherein in the first cleaning mode of operation, the water inlet is in fluid communication with the cleaning stream nozzle;
- and
- wherein in the second cleaning mode of operation, the water inlet is in fluid communication with the cleaning spray nozzle.
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A hand shower comprising:
- a handle;
- a water passageway received within the handle and defining a water inlet;
- a sprayhead operably coupled to the handle and including a sprayface defining a longitudinal sprayhead axis, the sprayface having a plurality of water outlets;
- a cleaning nozzle assembly supported by the sprayhead, the cleaning nozzle assembly including a cleaning stream nozzle and a cleaning spray nozzle;
- wherein the cleaning nozzle assembly defines a longitudinal nozzle axis oriented at an angle of between 45 degrees and 135 degrees from the longitudinal nozzle axis of the sprayface;
- the cleaning stream nozzle including a side wall having an inwardly tapering internal surface defining a stream passageway extending between an inlet opening and an outlet opening;
- the cleaning spray nozzle including a side wall and an end wall defining a chamber receiving the outlet opening of the cleaning stream nozzle, the end wall including an outlet opening;
- and
- wherein the outlet opening of the cleaning stream nozzle is co-axially aligned with the outlet opening of the cleaning spray nozzle.
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A shower device comprising:
- a water passageway including a water inlet;
- a sprayhead including a sprayface defining a longitudinal sprayhead axis, the sprayface having a plurality of water outlets;
- a cleaning nozzle assembly supported by the sprayhead, the cleaning nozzle assembly including a cleaning stream nozzle and a cleaning spray nozzle;
- a valve assembly fluidly coupled to the water passageway, the valve assembly including:
- a valve housing;
- a first piston received within the valve housing to divert water to the cleaning spray nozzle;
- a second piston received within the valve housing to divert water to the cleaning stream nozzle;
- wherein the first piston is movable within the valve housing between a first position and a second position, the first piston is in fluid communication with the second piston when in the first positon, and the first piston is in fluid communication with one of the cleaning spray nozzle or the cleaning stream nozzle when in the second position;
- and
- wherein the second piston is movable within the valve housing between a first position and a second position, the second piston is in fluid communication with the sprayface when in the first position, and the second piston is in fluid communication with the other one of the cleaning stream nozzle or the cleaning spray nozzle when in the second position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.