Whirlpool bathtub with devices for generating jets of water and/or air
AssigneeFranz Kaldewei GmbH & Co. KG
InventorHeinz-Werner Mersmann
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AssigneeFranz Kaldewei GmbH & Co. KG
InventorHeinz-Werner Mersmann
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A whirlpool bathtub having devices for generating jets of water and/or air which can be supplied to the tub interior at a plurality of places of the tub wall. An individual device, capable of being powered for generating a water and/or air jet, is installed in an opening in the tub wall and is charged with propulsive power from the outside of the tub. Each device has a pump housing with a pump chamber in which an impeller wheel is disposed on a rotatably seated drive shaft extending perpendicularly to the tub wall. The pump chamber is covered towards the tub interior with a triangular nozzle screen. The impeller wheel aspirates water axially from the tub interior through centered aspiration openings of the nozzle screen and returns it through at least one conduit originating in the pump chamber back into the tub interior. The conduit starts at the portion of the pump chamber which encloses the impeller wheel around its periphery. The impeller wheel has radially directed feed conduits extending from the axial aspiration opening. The part of the pump chamber having the conduit is embodied as a separate adjustment part, which is rotatable to at least a limited degree with respect to a housing base part disposed, fixed against relative rotation, in an opening in the tub wall and the conduit itself forms a jet outlet opening.
In a whirlpool bathtub having a plurality of devices for generating a plurality of jets of at least one of water and air which are supplied to the tub interior at a plurality of places of the tub wall, one of said devices powered for generating said jet being disposed at each of said plurality of places and being fixedly mounted by a base part in an opening in the tub wall and charged with propulsive power from the outside of the tub, each of said devices having a pump housing with a pump chamber, an impeller wheel disposed in said pump chamber on a rotatable seated drive shaft extending perpendicularly to the tub wall, the pump chamber covered towards the tub interior with a nozzle screen, the impeller wheel aspirating water axially from the tub interior through at least one centered aspiration opening of the nozzle screen and returning it through at least one return conduit originating in the pump chamber into the tub interior, said at least one return conduit extending from a portion of the pump chamber which encloses the periphery of the impeller wheel, and the impeller wheel having at least one radially directed feed conduit extending from the axial aspiration opening,
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