Hose attached trigger lever guard
OwnerJohn Bakerinventor
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Abstract
An anti-squirt ring acts as a handle guard for a palm operated garden hose nozzle lever. The guard is a circular ring, which obliquely surrounds the trigger lever of the garden hose nozzle. If the garden hose nozzle is accidentally dropped, the annular guard ring provides clearance. Therefore, the trigger lever will not forcefully contact the ground and be accidentally engaged, suddenly and erratically. The guard prevents unwanted spraying water from the nozzle in unwanted directions, such as at the user or at objects which should not get wet. The wire is configured in an annular ring and is either manufactured with the garden hose nozzle or garden hose, or is attached by clamps, cable ties or hook and loop type fasteners to the garden hose nozzle or attached to the garden hose directly.
Claims19
A trigger lever guard for a palm operable trigger lever of a garden hose nozzle, which prevents accidental discharge of water from a garden hose nozzle, if it falls to the ground or hits another object, thereby protecting the lever from accidental operation from side and back impact while affording access to the user's hand for normal unencumbered operation, said trigger guard comprising:
- a frame having a geometric shaped object extending in a plane intersecting a longitudinally extending axis of said palm operable trigger lever of said garden hose nozzle, such that a predetermined length of the diameter of geometrically shaped object extends in at least one plane a distance greater than a predetermined plane of pivot of said palm operable trigger lever;
- said frame being mounted to a garden hose removably attachable to said garden hose nozzle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.