US 9,038,210 B2Granted

Portable shower apparatus

OwnerJames Shannon Peetinventor

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Abstract

A portable shower apparatus includes a shower head, funnel adapter, mounted on an air evacuator tube, for use with a conventional fluid container. The shower head includes a shower face plate having a plurality of fluid dispensing holes; shower face plate is circumvented by a ring connector having internal threads. The funnel adapter includes two opposing openings having cylindrical connector pieces, a first cylindrical connector piece and a second cylindrical connector piece; first connector piece having a greater diameter than the second connector pieces. The shower head ring connector is threadably coupled to the first connector piece while a preexisting filled fluid container is coupled to the second connector piece. When the portable shower is inverted, fluid, preferably water, flows from the fluid container towards the user. Other embodiments are disclosed including a variety of transitional adapters to use with a variety of sizes of conventional fluid containers.

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Dependent claims

A portable shower apparatus, for engagement to a threaded neck of a fluid container, the portable shower apparatus comprising:

an air evacuator tube having a length having a first end and an opposing second end;
said first end includes a first opening and said second end includes a second opposing opening;
said first opening having an outer diameter and inner diameter substantially equal to an outer diameter and an inner diameter of said second opening;
a shower head having a housing body formed by a ring connector collar circumventing a shower faceplate;
said ring connector collar having an outer diameter and an inner diameter;
said ring connector collar having an exterior wall surface and interior wall surface having a height and thereon a said interior wall surface includes interior threads;
said shower face plate having a centrally disposed nipple connector having a bore dimensioned for inserting said first end of said air evacuator tube;
said shower face plate having a plurality of fluid distribution holes for flow of a fluid therethrough;
a funnel adapter formed by a hollow single body having a conical portion, a cylindrical portion, and a tubular portion, the funnel adapter having a first end and an opposing second end;
said first end having a first opening and said second end having an opposing second opening wherein said first opening having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of said second opening;
a cylindrical connector piece extending from the conical portion around said first opening;
an exterior surface of said cylindrical connector piece having exterior surface threads whereby said cylindrical connector piece is adapted for threadably engaging said interior threaded ring connector collar;
a tubular connector piece extending from said conical portion around said second opening;
and
an interior surface of said tubular connector piece having interior surface threads whereby said tubular connector piece is adapted for threadably engaging the threaded neck of the fluid container.

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A portable shower apparatus, for engagement to a threaded neck of a fluid container, the portable shower apparatus comprising:

an air evacuator tube having a length having a first end and an opposing second end;
said first end includes a first opening and said second end includes a second opposing opening;
said first opening having an outer diameter and inner diameter substantially equal to an outer diameter and an inner diameter of said second opening;
a shower head having a housing body formed by a ring connector collar circumventing a shower faceplate;
said ring connector collar having an outer diameter and an inner diameter;
said ring connector collar having an exterior wall surface and interior wall surface having a height and thereon a said interior wall surface includes interior threads;
said shower face plate having a centrally disposed nipple connector having a bore dimensioned for inserting said first end of said air evacuator tube;
said shower face plate having a plurality of fluid distribution holes for flow of a fluid therethrough;
a funnel adapter formed by a hollow single body having a conical portion, a cylindrical portion, and a tubular portion, the funnel adapter having a first end and an opposing second end;
said first end having a first opening and said second end having an opposing second opening wherein said first opening having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of said second opening;
a cylindrical connector piece extending from the conical portion around said first opening;
an exterior surface of said cylindrical connector piece having exterior surface threads whereby said cylindrical connector piece is adapted for threadably engaging said interior threaded ring connector collar;
a tubular connector piece extending from said conical portion around said second opening;
and
an exterior surface of said tubular connector piece having interior surface threads whereby said tubular connector piece is adapted for threadably engaging the threaded neck of the fluid container.

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A portable shower apparatus, for engagement to a threaded neck of a fluid container, the portable shower apparatus comprising:

an air evacuator tube having a length having a first end and an opposing second end;
said first end includes a first opening and said second end includes a second opposing opening;
said first opening having an outer diameter and inner diameter substantially equal to an outer diameter and an inner diameter of said second opening;
a shower head having a housing body formed by a ring connector collar circumventing a shower faceplate;
said ring connector collar having an outer diameter and an inner diameter;
said ring connector collar having an exterior wall surface and interior wall surface having a height and thereon a said interior wall surface includes interior threads;
said shower face plate having a centrally disposed nipple connector having a bore dimensioned for inserting said first end of said air evacuator tube;
said shower face plate having a plurality of fluid distribution holes for flow of a fluid therethrough;
a funnel adapter formed by a hollow single body having a conical portion, a cylindrical portion, and a tubular portion, the funnel adapter having a first end and an opposing second end;
said first end having a first opening and said second end having an opposing second opening wherein said first opening having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of said second opening;
a cylindrical connector piece extending from the conical portion around said first opening;
an exterior surface of said cylindrical connector piece having exterior surface threads whereby said cylindrical connector piece is adapted for threadably engaging said interior threaded ring connector collar;
a tubular connector piece extending from said conical portion around said second opening;
an interior surface of said tubular connector piece having interior surface threads;
a wide mouth adapter having a wide mouth cylindrical connector piece and a wide mouth tubular connector piece;
a first opening formed by said wide mouth cylindrical connector piece and a second opening formed by wide mouth tubular connector piece;
an exterior surface of said wide mouth tubular connector piece having exterior surface threads whereby said wide mouth tubular connector piece is adapted for threadably engaging the interior threaded surface of said funnel adapter tubular connector piece;
and
an interior surface of said wide mouth connector piece having interior surface threads is adapted for threadably engaging the threaded neck of the fluid container.

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A portable shower apparatus, for engagement to a threaded neck of a fluid container, the portable shower apparatus comprising:

an air evacuator tube having a length having a first end and an opposing second end;
said first end includes a first opening and said second end includes a second opposing opening;
said first opening having an outer diameter and inner diameter substantially equal to an outer diameter and an inner diameter of said second opening;
a shower head having a housing body formed by a ring connector collar circumventing a shower faceplate;
said ring connector collar having an outer diameter and an inner diameter;
said ring connector collar having an exterior wall surface and interior wall surface having a height and thereon a said interior wall surface includes interior threads;
said shower face plate having a centrally disposed nipple connector having a bore dimensioned for inserting said first end of said air evacuator tube;
said shower face plate having a plurality of fluid distribution holes for flow of a fluid therethrough;
a funnel adapter formed by a hollow single body having a conical portion, a cylindrical portion, and a tubular portion, the funnel adapter having a first end and an opposing second end;
said first end having a first opening and said second end having an opposing second opening wherein said first opening having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of said second opening;
a cylindrical connector piece extending from the conical portion around said first opening;
an exterior surface of said cylindrical connector piece having exterior surface threads whereby said cylindrical connector piece is adapted for threadably engaging said interior threaded ring connector collar;
a tubular connector piece extending from said conical portion around said second opening;
and
an interior surface of said tubular connector piece having interior surface threads;
a tubular adapter having two co-axial tubular adapter connector pieces, a first tubular adapter connector piece and a second tubular adapter connector piece;
a first opening formed from the first tubular connector piece and a second opening formed from said tubular connector piece;
an exterior surface of said first tubular adapter tubular connector piece having exterior threads adapted for threadably engaging said interior threaded funnel adapter tubular connector piece;
and
an exterior surface of said second tubular adapter tubular connector piece is adapted for threadably engaging the threaded neck of the fluid container.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/842,408Filed 15 Mar 2013
Published: US 2014/0259373 A118 Sep 2014
Granted: 26 May 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B05B 1/18
With multiple outlet openings ; with strainers in or outside the outlet opening: roses; Shower heads
A47K 3/285
Fixed showers: free-standing or hanging showers without a cabinet
B05B 1/1823
The outlet openings arranged in plural groups or rows: concentric or coaxial groups
B05B 15/30
Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories: dip tubes

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