US 6,719,218 B2Granted

Multiple discharge shower head with revolving nozzle

AssigneeMoen Incorporated

InventorsLonnie F. Cool, Mark S. Kacik, Yaakov Korb, Richard A. Parso, Stephen J. Zaborszki

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Abstract

A shower head has a housing with a water inlet and a control valve which connects to the housing inlet and has a plurality of water outlets. The control valve regulates the flow of water to a plurality of circumferentially arranged spray openings and to a nozzle which is located within the periphery of the spray openings. The nozzle has the ability to turn or spin, thus providing a soft spray which may be independent of or concurrent with the discharge of water from the spray openings. The nozzle may also wobble, which movement may be described as nutational, or the slow movement of the axis of the nozzle about another axis. Wobbling movement provides a somewhat more concentrated spray than that provided when the nozzle only spins. The shower head further has an auxiliary port which may be utilized with other spray devices such as fixed sprays or hand-held shower heads.

Claims54

Dependent claims

A shower head including a housing, a water inlet in said housing, a control valve in said housing having a water inlet and a plurality of water outlets, a water passage between said housing inlet and said control valve inlet,

a plurality of peripherally arranged spray openings in said housing, a spray opening water passage between one of said control valve outlets and said spray openings,
a spray nozzle on said housing having a plurality of outlets and a water conduit connected thereto,
a wobble inducing member in said housing and associated with said nozzle to impart a wobbling motion thereto, a wobble water passage between another one of said valve outlets and said wobble inducing member whereby water passing from said control valve to said wobble inducing member causes it to wobble and to induce wobble in said nozzle, said wobble water passage communicating with said nozzle conduit to supply water to said nozzle outlets,
a spin inducing member in said housing and associated with said nozzle to impart a spin motion thereto, a spin water passage between yet another one of said valve outlets and said spin inducing member, whereby water passing from said control valve to said spin inducing member causes it to spin and to induce spin in said nozzle, said spin water passage communicating with said nozzle conduit to supply water to said nozzle outlets,
said control valve being movable between positions to direct water from said control valve inlet to said control valve outlets.

2 more elements

a plurality of stationary, peripherally arranged spray openings in said housing, a spray opening water passage between one of said control valve outlets and said spray openings,
a nozzle on said housing having a plurality of outlets and a water conduit connected thereto,
a spin inducing member in said housing and associated with said nozzle to impart a spin motion thereto, a spin water passage between another one of said valve outlets and said spin inducing member whereby water passing from said control valve to said spin inducing member causes it to spin and to induce spin in said nozzle, said spin water passage being connected to said nozzle conduit to supply water to said nozzle outlets,
said control valve being movable between positions to direct water from said control valve inlet to said control valve outlets.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/888,892Filed 25 Jun 2001
Published: US 2003/0006304 A19 Jan 2003
Granted: 13 Apr 2004
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B05B 3/008
Spraying or sprinkling apparatus with moving outlet elements or moving deflecting elements: comprising a wobbling or nutating element, e.g.…
B05B 1/1636
With a selecting mechanism comprising a gate valve, a sliding valve or a cock: by relative rotative movement of the valve elements
B05B 1/182
Roses; Shower heads: characterised by their outlet openings or elements; Mounting arrangements therefor
B05B 1/1821
Characterised by their outlet openings or elements; Mounting arrangements therefor: the outlet openings arranged in plural groups or rows