Adjustable height showerhead
AssigneeI. W. Industries, Inc.
InventorJerome Warshawsky
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Abstract
An adjustable height showerhead is slidably removable vertically along an axis to accommodate users of differing heights. The showerhead includes a fixed inner pipe, a water inlet connection, a wall mount and an adjustable pipe sleeve. The water inlet connection provides a flow of water into the fixed inner pipe, which has ports connected with the adjustable pipe sleeve to provide water therethrough into an annular space defined by the outer wall of the inner pipe and an inner wall of the adjustable pipe sleeve, which is connected to the outlet nozzle at a distal end. A locking subassembly maintains the showerhead in a fixed position until the locking assembly is unlocked, thereby permitting slidable movement of the adjustable pipe sleeve about an axis parallel to the fixed inner pipe.
Claims10
An adjustable height showerhead comprising:
- a fixed inner pipe connected to a water inlet connection, said fixed inner pipe mounted to a wall mount,
- an adjustably movable pipe sleeve having a straight portion connected to an outlet pipe, said adjustably movable pipe sleeve having a top sealing fitting and a bottom sealing fitting, said straight portion extending between said top sealing fitting and said bottom sealing fitting, said straight portion further includes a water outlet located at said bottom sealing fitting,
- said water inlet connection providing a flow of water through said water inlet connection into said fixed inner pipe, said fixed inner pipe having at least one hole permitting flow of water into an annular space defined by an outer wall of said fixed inner pipe and an inner wall of said straight portion of said adjustably movable pipe sleeve,
- said adjustably movable pipe sleeve having a coupling connecting said water outlet of said straight portion to a proximal end of said outlet pipe,
- said outlet pipe having a showerhead nozzle attached to a distal end of said outlet pipe, and
- said adjustably movable pipe sleeve slides longitudinally along an axis parallel to a straight portion of said fixed inner pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.