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US 5,241,714 AGranted
Shower personal hygiene system
OwnerPaul C. Barryinventor
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Abstract
A shower personal hygiene system is provided which consists of a directional fitting connected between a shower neck pipe extending through a wall in a shower stall and a shower head, a hand held attachment and a mechanism for providing fluid communication between the directional fitting and the hand held attachment, so that a person in the shower stall can utilize water under pressure coming from the shower neck pipe to clean various parts of their body.
Claims10
A shower personal hygiene system which comprises:
- a) a directional fitting connected between a shower neck pipe extending through a wall in a shower stall and a shower head, said directional fitting includes a hollow cylindrical sleeve having internal threads at a first end to engage with the external threads on the shower neck pipe, external threads at a second end to engage with the internal threads in the shower head and a transverse aperture between the first end and the second end thereof, so that said regulating means can be attached thereto, said hollow cylindrical sleeve further includes an enclosure having a small orifice located at the second end thereof to supply uniform water pressure to the shower head and said regulating means;
- b) a hand held attachment;
- c) means for providing fluid communication between said directional fitting and said hand held attachment, so that a person in the shower stall can utilize water under pressure coming from the shower neck pipe to clean various parts of their body said fluid communication means is an elongated flexible tube extending between the outlet port of said housing of said on/off manually operated valve and said hand held attachment;
- d) means located between said directional fitting and said fluid communication means, for regulating the flow of the water therethrough, said regulating means is an on/off manually operated valve, said on/off manually operated valve includes a housing having an inlet port fluidly connected to the transverse aperture in said hollow cylindrical sleeve of said directional fitting and an outlet port fluidly connected to said fluid communication means, a ball having a longitudinal bore therethrough, said ball rotatably mounted within said housing, a spindle extending upwardly from said ball through said housing, a handle affixed to the top of said spindle, so as to rotate said ball causing the longitudinal bore to align up with the inlet and outlet ports of said housing to regulate the flow of the water therethrough;
- e) a female quick release snap fitting located on distal end of said elongated flexible tube, so that said hand held attachment can be easily connected and disconnected therefrom;
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- f) a bracket attached to the wall of the shower stall, so that the distal end of said elongated flexible tube with said female quick release snap fitting can be held thereto when not in use, said bracket includes a clamp member to engage the distal end of said elongated flexible tube, means for attaching said clamp member to the wall of the shower stall, said attaching means is a suction cup mounted to the back of said clamp member, whereby said suction cup can stick to the wall of the shower stall.
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