US 2025/0075474 A1 · SPRAY HEAD RETRACTION ASSEMBLY

Abstract

A faucet mounting assembly for a faucet includes a conical nut and a receiving clip. The conical nut is coupled to a nozzle. The receiving clip is coupled to an inner surface of the faucet and is configured to receive the conical nut within. The receiving clip includes a substantially annular base, one or more tabs and a slot. The one or more tabs including fixed ends fixed to the substantially annular base and free ends opposite the fixed ends and bounded by the slot. The one or more tabs are configured to flex radially between a non-flexed position and a flexed position. The one or more tabs flex into the flexed position when the conical nut is repositioned in and out of engagement with the receiving clip and return to the non-flexed position when the conical nut is seated within the receiving clip.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A hose retraction assembly, comprising:

a housing;
a spool disposed within the housing and configured to rotate about an axis;
a material disposed around the spool and received through the housing, the material coupled to a hose;
and
a rotary damper coaxially coupled to the spool and configured to selectively reposition between an engaged state and a disengaged state;
wherein the rotary damper prevents free rotation of the spool when the rotary damper is in the engaged state, and wherein the rotary damper permits free rotation of the spool when the rotary damper is in the disengaged state.

3 more elements

A retraction assembly for a hose, the hose selectively repositionable between an extended position and a retracted position, the retraction assembly comprising:

an elongate member extending from a faucet, the elongate member comprising a track therein;
a bracket coupled to the elongate member and slidably repositionable along at least a portion of the elongate member between a first position and a second position;
a biasing member coupled to the bracket and configured to provide a biasing force onto the bracket into the first position;
and
a rotary damper configured to impose a unidirectional resistance onto the bracket;
wherein the elongate member is rotatably oriented out of engagement with components of the faucet.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/948,338Filed 14 Nov 2024

Priority

28 Apr 2021

Published

6 Mar 2025

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

B05B 15/656
Mounting arrangements for fluid connection of the spraying apparatus or its outlets to flow conduits: whereby the flow conduit length is changeable
E03C 1/0404
Water-basin installations specially adapted to wash-basins or baths: constructional or functional features of the spout
E03C 1/04
Plumbing installations for fresh water: water-basin installations specially adapted to wash-basins or baths
B05B 1/1882
With user-actuated controlling members: actuated by a linear movement, e.g. push buttons

Family

Application63/183,322Us provisional application · filed 3 May 2021

Application63/270,771Us provisional application · filed 22 Oct 2021

Application17/722,214Continuation · filed 15 Apr 2022

Application18/948,338Continuation

Application17/722,214Continuation in part

US 12,168,862 B2Related patent

US 2022/0349160 A1Published application

US 2025/0075474 A1This patent

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Abstract

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