EP0455088A2 - Hydromassagedüse - Google Patents

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EP0455088A2
EP0455088A2 EP91106445A EP91106445A EP0455088A2 EP 0455088 A2 EP0455088 A2 EP 0455088A2 EP 91106445 A EP91106445 A EP 91106445A EP 91106445 A EP91106445 A EP 91106445A EP 0455088 A2 EP0455088 A2 EP 0455088A2
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mouth
hydromassage
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Carmelo Ianni
Livio Furlan
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Jacuzzi Europe SpA
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/02—Bathing devices for use with gas-containing liquid, or liquid in which gas is led or generated, e.g. carbon dioxide baths
    • A61H33/027—Gas-water mixing nozzles therefor
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/60—Components specifically designed for the therapeutic baths of groups A61H33/00
    • A61H33/601—Inlet to the bath
    • A61H33/6021—Nozzles
    • A61H33/6063—Specifically adapted for fitting in bathtub walls
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H2033/0008—Arrangement for cleaning the installation before or after use
    • A61H2033/0016—Arrangement for cleaning the installation before or after use using cleansing products
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/02—Bathing devices for use with gas-containing liquid, or liquid in which gas is led or generated, e.g. carbon dioxide baths
    • A61H2033/023—Bathing devices for use with gas-containing liquid, or liquid in which gas is led or generated, e.g. carbon dioxide baths with means in the air supply lines to prevent back-feed of water, e.g. anti-backflow valves, draining devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H2201/00—Characteristics of apparatus not provided for in the preceding codes
    • A61H2201/12—Driving means
    • A61H2201/1207—Driving means with electric or magnetic drive
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/60—Components specifically designed for the therapeutic baths of groups A61H33/00

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  • the present invention relates to an improved mouth for hydromassage.
  • the hydromassage consists in striking the body of the customer, plunged in a bath or pool, with a water jet under pressure mixed with air, delivered from one or more mouths mounted on the walls of the bath.
  • mouths for hydromassage generally consist in allowing a certain amount of water to pass through a cross-section having the shape of a Venturi tube, causing in such way a depression which, on turn, causes air suction, which is mixed with the water ejected from the mouth under form of a jet.
  • a mouth for hydromassage comprising a hollow sleeve to direct a water jet, said sleeve being housed in a substantially spherical adjustable body, contained in an external shell emboding a water duct and an air duct, a nozzle integral with said spherical body and coaxial with said sleeve being connected with said air duct characterized in that said sleeve sliding along its own axis and its operative position is stabilized by a spring coaxial with said sleeve and by a pressure fluid contained in a variable volume toroidal chamber.
  • the mouth for hydromassage furthermore includes mouth cleaning and/or disinfection means; said means include a pipe arranged in the lower part of the outside shell which, through an aperture dirven by an electric valve, or by another actuator of pneumatic or hydraulic or other kind, connects the internal side of a spherical body with an output service opening, said opening comprising a plurality of ducts directed to the wall of a bath whereto the mouth for hydromassage is applied.
  • the mouth for hydromassage 10 presents an external shell 11 which incorporates the water duct 12 fed by a pump (not shown) and an air duct 13.
  • the shell 11 is fixed to the wall 14 of a bath or pool (not shown) by means of a flange 15 and a ring nut 16, the whole is provided with suitable seal washers.
  • a spherical body 17 which is integral with a nozzle 18 connected to the air duct 13 and extending for a certain distance along the symmetry axis XX of the mouth for hydromassage.
  • the spherical body 17 may assume angularly different positions both with respect to the axis XX and with respect to an orthographic axis or other axes included among the first two ones: such different positions are obviously discrete entities.
  • valve 21 In the cavity of the nozzle 18 is placed a valve 21 which may assume two positions, “advanced” to open the passage of the air coming from the duct 13 or “withdrawn” to close such passage with the help of the seal washer 22, respectively.
  • valve 21 may assume different structural configurations and that the preferred embodiment of the mouth for hydromassage herein described is not bound to the particular kind of the valve 21.
  • the spherical body 17 is provided with some passages which put in communication said duct 12 with the cavity or intermediate chamber 24 of the spherical body 17.
  • the spherical body 17 presents a chamber or cylindrical cavity 25 water seal which extends towards the inside of the intermediate chamber 24 and parallely to the axis XX.
  • Said chamber or cylindrical cavity 25 is defined by the fixed walls 26,27,28 integral with the spherical body 17 and by the shaped cylindrical member or bolt 29 sliding in a direction parallel to the axis XX, causing in such way a variable length of the cylindrical chamber 25, as can be seen by comparing figure 1 with figure 2.
  • a spiral spring 30 is housed, having its own axis at X-X, which may be compressed between the fixed wall 27 and the opposite wall of the bolt 29 when this last one is approached to the fixed walls 26,27,28; in particular the ends of the walls 26,28 are the retainer or limit to the slide of the bolt 29.
  • the hollow sleeve 31 having outside diameter coinciding with the inside diameter of the cylindrical portion 28; the sleeve 31 may slide therefore along its own axis in conjuction with the bolt 29, in contact with the cylindrical surface of the wall 28.
  • the thread coupling the sleeve 31 with the bolt 29 allows moreover a normal adjustement of the strength of the delivered water jet.
  • the profile of the cavity of the sleeve 31 is shaped according to the shape of the Venturi tube having the restriction 32 placed near the end of the nozzle 18.
  • the average diameter of said toroidal chamber may suitably correspond to the one of the spring 30.
  • the contours of the toroidal chamber 33, when the mouth is closed as represented in figure 1, are defined by a portion of said bolt 29, by a cylindrical member having in section the shape of C (which will be shortly called C member) connected to the fixed wall 26 and the thickness of the end of said fixed wall 26.
  • valve 34 Through the thickness of the C member is inserted the valve 34 which has the particularity to allow a flow of liquid from the intermediate chamber 24 to the toroidal chamber 33 much more rapid than the flow into opposite direction.
  • valve 34 could be of unidirectional type allowing an input flow into the toroidal chamber, said valve being associated to a small hole having an output flow considerably slower.
  • the outer shell 11 presents a duct 35 communicating with the intermediate chamber 24 (by means of the passage 23') and with the pipe 36 (through the valve 37).
  • the pipe 36 commuicates with the outside of the mouth or, better, with the inside of the bath by mean of a service mouth comprising the annular connection 38 and a plurality of small radial pipes 39 downwards directed and forming an acute angle with the wall 14 of the bath.
  • the water coming from the duct 12 with a certain duty pressure crosses the passages 23 and floods the internediate chamber 24 of the spherical body 17, exerting a push action on the bolt 29.
  • the bolt 29 is forward displaced, overcoming the resistance of the spirng 30 and bringing with it the sleeve 31, which moves away from the nozzle 18 opening in such a way a passage to the water which will be discharged from the mouth under form of jet.
  • the particular Venturi tube shape of the sleeve 31 causes a depression in front of the nozzle 18 that draws the valve 21 moving it away form the washer 22 and allowing the air flow, coming from the duct 13, to reach the water jet.
  • the presence of the toroidal chamber 33 equipped with the valve 34 avoides or reduces substantially such "pulsations" infact, as already above mentioned, as the valve allows a much slower out flow than the opposite derected filling flow, the water pressure in the toroidal chamber 33 increases balancing the reation effect of the compression state of the spring 10.
  • the water containing detergents and/or disinfectants is fed through a duct 12 wherefrom it arrives into the intermediate chamber 24 flowing therefore through the duct 35 into the pipe 36 and subsequently into the connection 38 to reach the small radial pipes 39 inside the bath and finally to get out according to the direction indicated by the arrows F and F' to strike the walls of said bath.
  • the pipe 10 may return to carry out its normal operation of hydromassage as above described.

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IT20112A IT1242208B (it) 1990-04-23 1990-04-23 Bocchetta per idromassaggio perfezionata

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Cited By (5)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0579296A2 (de) * 1992-06-29 1994-01-19 IDEAL STANDARD S.p.A. Whirlpooldüse zur Herstellung eines Wasser/Luft-Gemisches
EP0635252A2 (de) * 1993-07-22 1995-01-25 Jacuzzi Europe Spa Verfahren und Anlage zur Reinigung und/oder Desinfektion eines Hydromassagesystems
EP0796602A1 (de) * 1996-03-19 1997-09-24 Jacuzzi Europe Spa Hydro-Massage-Öffnung mit verbessertem Kreislauf von Luftzufuhr und Abfluss von Restwasser
EP1518531A1 (de) * 2003-09-29 2005-03-30 American Standard Europe B.V.B.A. Düsenanordnung für Hydromassagebäder
WO2005110332A1 (en) 2004-05-19 2005-11-24 American Standard Europe Bvba Jet for hydromassage baths

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US3145732A (en) * 1962-08-27 1964-08-25 Spartan Hydraulics Inc Hydraulic pressure relief valve
US4693270A (en) * 1986-03-24 1987-09-15 Durabla Manufacturing Co. Check valve
EP0317021A1 (de) * 1987-11-18 1989-05-24 Wisa B.V. Rückschlagventil
EP0372642A1 (de) * 1988-12-07 1990-06-13 Jacuzzi Europe Spa Hydro-Massagedüse für Wasserbecken
EP0320696B1 (de) * 1987-12-15 1993-04-07 HOESCH Metall + Kunststoffwerk GmbH & Co. Wirbeldüsenwanne mit selbsttätiger Systemvorspülung

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US3145732A (en) * 1962-08-27 1964-08-25 Spartan Hydraulics Inc Hydraulic pressure relief valve
US4693270A (en) * 1986-03-24 1987-09-15 Durabla Manufacturing Co. Check valve
EP0317021A1 (de) * 1987-11-18 1989-05-24 Wisa B.V. Rückschlagventil
EP0320696B1 (de) * 1987-12-15 1993-04-07 HOESCH Metall + Kunststoffwerk GmbH & Co. Wirbeldüsenwanne mit selbsttätiger Systemvorspülung
EP0372642A1 (de) * 1988-12-07 1990-06-13 Jacuzzi Europe Spa Hydro-Massagedüse für Wasserbecken

Cited By (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0579296A2 (de) * 1992-06-29 1994-01-19 IDEAL STANDARD S.p.A. Whirlpooldüse zur Herstellung eines Wasser/Luft-Gemisches
US5333791A (en) * 1992-06-29 1994-08-02 American Standard Inc. Nozzle for emission of a mixture of water and air for hydromassage
EP0579296A3 (de) * 1992-06-29 1994-11-02 Ideal Standard Spa Whirlpooldüse zur Herstellung eines Wasser/Luft-Gemisches.
EP0635252A2 (de) * 1993-07-22 1995-01-25 Jacuzzi Europe Spa Verfahren und Anlage zur Reinigung und/oder Desinfektion eines Hydromassagesystems
EP0635252A3 (de) * 1993-07-22 1995-12-06 Jacuzzi Europ Verfahren und Anlage zur Reinigung und/oder Desinfektion eines Hydromassagesystems.
EP0796602A1 (de) * 1996-03-19 1997-09-24 Jacuzzi Europe Spa Hydro-Massage-Öffnung mit verbessertem Kreislauf von Luftzufuhr und Abfluss von Restwasser
EP1518531A1 (de) * 2003-09-29 2005-03-30 American Standard Europe B.V.B.A. Düsenanordnung für Hydromassagebäder
WO2005110332A1 (en) 2004-05-19 2005-11-24 American Standard Europe Bvba Jet for hydromassage baths
KR101258295B1 (ko) * 2004-05-19 2013-04-30 아이디얼 스탠다드 인터내셔널 비브이비에이 물 마사지 욕조용 분출기

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