EP0894536B1 - Brauseeinrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0894536B1
EP0894536B1 EP98114056A EP98114056A EP0894536B1 EP 0894536 B1 EP0894536 B1 EP 0894536B1 EP 98114056 A EP98114056 A EP 98114056A EP 98114056 A EP98114056 A EP 98114056A EP 0894536 B1 EP0894536 B1 EP 0894536B1
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Werner Finkbeiner
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
    • B05B1/14—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means with multiple outlet openings; with strainers in or outside the outlet opening
    • B05B1/18—Roses; Shower heads
    • B05B1/185—Roses; Shower heads characterised by their outlet element; Mounting arrangements therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B15/00—Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories
    • B05B15/50—Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter
    • B05B15/52—Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter for removal of clogging particles
    • B05B15/528—Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter for removal of clogging particles by resilient deformation of the nozzle
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S239/00—Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing
    • Y10S239/12—Flexible outlets
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S239/00—Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing
    • Y10S239/19—Nozzle materials

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  • the invention relates to a shower device with a flexible and flat jet disk.
  • a shower which has an outwardly curved and elastically deformable jet disk. Due to the deformability of the jet disk, these can be pressed in areas manually, and by the subsequentstatige snapping back the jet disk disturbing calcium deposits on their surfaces and in the range of water passageways formed by holes are replaced. By indenting the jet disk, this deforms so far that deposits can be solved and washed away.
  • the at least one area district can be bar with a finger. This can for example be done during use of the shower set, so that dissolved lime or other deposits are flushed out of the shower water from the shower.
  • the surface of the jet disk, in particular the at least one depressible surface area can be larger than a fingertip.
  • a jet disc on a defined contact surface for the application of a force, for example via finger pressure on.
  • the contact surface is preferably smaller than the surface area and in particular has a diameter which is slightly less than half the diameter of the area district.
  • the contact surface may have any shape, wherein preferably the surface centers coincide. As advantageous essentially circular configurations are considered.
  • a jet disk is provided with at least one material weakening, in particular along a substantially closed line.
  • the material weakening may extend over a width which is approximately in the range of the average thickness of the jet disk. It can be carried out in various ways.
  • the wall thickness of the material weakening in particular a material dilution, is in a range between 10% and 60% of the average thickness of the jet disk, preferably approximately 30%.
  • Such material weakening allows a defined jumping of the curved jet disk.
  • the material weakening is preferably formed as a film hinge.
  • the shower device can have a solid component, which adjoins the outside to an outer material weakening, in particular the jet disk.
  • a solid component which adjoins the outside to an outer material weakening, in particular the jet disk.
  • this component can be made particularly torsionally rigid, for example, by a wall thickness which is considerably above the average thickness of the jet disk.
  • the structure of the shower device is simplified when the solid component connects directly to the material weakening.
  • the solid component serves as a kind of frame, which contains both the jet disk and material weakening, as well as above all in the deformation occurring forces, especially in approximately radial direction occurring forces caught without yielding to this.
  • the jet disk is preferably connectable or connected to the solid component.
  • the two are made in one piece as a unit. This facilitates production, assembly and handling.
  • the solid component may have a cylindrical pipe section, which is preferably connectable to a showerhead. In this case, a one-piece design of the component with the pipe section is considered to be particularly favorable.
  • the connection with the shower enclosure is possible for example via a screw thread.
  • the solid component may have a solid flange adjoining the jet disk on the outside, which is preferably connectable to the showerhead housing. Such a flange improves the stability of the component, in particular with respect to radial forces emitted by the jet disk during the push-in or return operation.
  • the contact surface is preferably with a stiffening or the like. provided, which may be formed in particular as a stiffening ring or stiffening rib.
  • the stiffening promotes the uniform Umspringen and in particular the automatic spring back a depressed jet disk.
  • the stiffener When the stiffener is on the outside of the abutment surface, in particular as a rib, it can serve as a centering aid for a finger applied to the abutment surface, so that the indentation force is intuitively carried out at the optimal location for the Umschnappvorgang.
  • the contact surface may preferably have a diameter of about 5 mm to 15 mm, in particular about 10 mm. This size range is particularly well suited both to the intuitive fingering and to the well-defined application of the indentation force.
  • the jet disk is designed with an average wall thickness in the range of 0.4 mm to 1 mm, in particular with approximately 0.7 mm.
  • Such a material thickness is considered to confer sufficient flexibility in preferably used plastics. It gives the jet disk a strength necessary for use in a shower attachment.
  • the jet disk can withstand a force exerted by an unaware or careless user, which is a multiple of an impression force preferably provided for pushing.
  • the material thickness of the material weakening may preferably be between 0.1 mm and 0.5 mm, in particular between 0.2 mm and 0.3 mm.
  • a clear, limited to a small width decrease in the wall thickness of the material in the weakening of material compared to the other jet disk is given to form the film hinge.
  • the material weakening is perforated in the manner of a perforation, the wall thickness in the region of the webs of the surrounding material between the holes can correspond approximately to the material thickness of the jet disk.
  • the material weakening is designed annular. It may have a diameter of about 10 mm to 60 mm, with a diameter of about 20 mm to 40 mm is considered to be particularly favorable.
  • the jet disk made of plastic.
  • These plastics can be produced with a very smooth surface, which makes the formation of deposits difficult and their Replacement facilitated by a Umschnappvorgnature invention. It is possible to produce the jet disk by injection molding.
  • the flexibility of the jet disk is achieved by their execution with a small wall thickness.
  • the use of a plastic material achieves a construction of the jet disk with a film hinge in the form of weakening of the material, which encloses the at least one pressable surface area. This is along this film or ring hinge in position relative to the rest of the shower device, in particular to the solid component, changeable.
  • the jet disk can be rotationally symmetrical or produced, wherein it preferably retains this rotational symmetry both in the initial position and in the maximum inwardly curved state.
  • the rotational symmetry is maintained even during a proper Eindschreib- or recoil operation.
  • the jet disc In the manner of a cracked frog, in the case of particularly preferred embodiments, the jet disc not only abruptly but also generates a preferably crackling noise as a result of this abrupt changeover. This noise signals a user that the jet disk umspringt and Lime and other deposits are blasted off. Thus, an acoustic feedback on the Umspringvorgang.
  • Water passage channels for water flowing through the shower device are preferably formed by holes within the material weakening, in particular also within the contact surface.
  • the holes can be designed differently, for example, with different cross-sectional shapes or diameters.
  • the water can be divided into a plurality of water jets, which are designed depending on the design of the water passage channels.
  • massage jets which emerge in particular discontinuously with high exit velocity from the jet disk.
  • the holes can be arranged in any desired manner, an arrangement in concentric rows is preferred. The center of the concentric rows may coincide with the axis of symmetry of a rotationally symmetric jet disk. It is possible to place the holes of one row offset from the holes in adjacent rows.
  • the jet disk in a central region in particular a circular, preferably non-perforated central region, be flat or curved inwards.
  • This central area can be located in the middle of the jet disk or the contact surface.
  • Such a domed central area centers the indentation force applied by a user via finger pressure.
  • the Umschnappvorgang the jet disk is improved by this central area, as bulges in the surrounding material of the jet disk after exceeding a Umspringlets automatically and with a certain slope to the inside by the curvature inwards.
  • the central region has a diameter in the range of 1 mm to 8 mm, are considered to be particularly advantageous about 4 mm.
  • the clear height of the center of this central curvature above the plane of the contact surface is between 0.2 mm and 0.8 mm, in particular about 0.5 mm.
  • the material thickness in the region of the central curvature is approximately the average thickness of the jet disk.
  • the inwardly curved central region is preferably free of holes.
  • the at least one curved surface area or the jet disk is in the starting position without a bias voltage. Due to this relaxed position of the jet disk, it retains its optimized position for the normal showering process in the absence of external influences. A spring back from the pressed state by removing the indenting force is particularly defined and determined when the jet disk can jump into a position in which it is not exposed to any significant force influences.
  • a bulge of the at least one surface area outwardly may preferably be about 2% to 15% of the diameter of the area district, i. the clear height of the curvature maximum above the level of material weakening is approximately this proportion of the diameter of the area district. 7% to 10% are considered particularly advantageous.
  • a curvature of the at least one area district after the impressions inward can be approximately in the region of the extent of the curvature to the outside. Swinging between two such positions produces a cracking effect, which is considered sufficiently satisfying many of the advantages of the invention with regard to scale removal.
  • the jump or the crack takes place in each case in a force maximum, which is passed with each jump.
  • the maximum forces can be different depending on the direction of movement of the jet disk and / or occur at different deflections.
  • the course of the curvature, in particular the strongly conically tapering part of the jet disk can enclose an angle of approximately 10 ° with the plane of the material weakening.
  • the impression force for a surface area is preferably in a range between 10 N and 120 N, in particular approximately between 30 N and 90 N, particularly advantageously at approximately 77 N.
  • This is regarded as a force range in which, on the one hand, the force without larger Efforts can be applied by a user by finger pressure, on the other hand, a limescale is sufficiently scrapped snap action achieved.
  • a restoring force of the surface area lies in a range between 5 N and 60 N, in particular approximately between 10 N and 50 N, particularly advantageously at approximately 45 N.
  • the shower device is preferably designed as a shower head, in particular as a head or side shower, for connection to a fixed wall connection, which is directionally adjustable via a ball joint in a certain range and has a round perforated jet disk whose diameter is about 26 mm and one by means of having a kind of film hinge mounted in a solid ring crushable surface area.
  • Fig. 1 shows in section an inventive designed as a shower head shower device 11, which is a conical expanded housing 12 has.
  • a substantially spherical joint piece 13 which passes upward in a substantially cylindrical pipe socket 14.
  • This pipe socket 14 has a thread 15 in the interior, in which a provided with a matching mating thread fitting 16 can be screwed.
  • This provided with a continuous bore fitting 16 may be, for example, a projecting from a wall water supply for a shower head.
  • shower water or the like through an upstream mixer battery may have a desired temperature by a user, enters through the hollow fitting 16 in the provided with a through hole joint piece 13 a.
  • the connection between the connector 16 and pipe socket 14 may be sealed by a sealing ring 17 to the outside.
  • the bore 18 through the spherical joint piece 13 may be stepped from the integrally formed thereon tubular extension 14 with decreasing bore diameters. This makes it possible to insert into the joint 13 inserts or the like., Which are held by the protruding shoulders of the tapered bore diameter against the occurring in Fig. 1 from above water pressure.
  • the joint piece 13 is inserted from below through an opening 19 in the housing 12 with the pipe socket 14 ahead.
  • the diameter of the opening 19 is slightly above that of the pipe socket 14, but a piece below the diameter of the preferably rotationally symmetrical joint piece 13.
  • the joint piece 13 is in abutment with the peripheral edge of the opening 19.
  • a Rundschnurdichtring 21 inserted. He insists preferably made of rubber o. The like.
  • the round cord sealing ring 21 is held by abutment of both an upper edge of a pot-shaped insert 22 and by an upper edge of a cylindrical tube section 23 in the groove 20 formed thereby.
  • the cylindrical tube section 23 surrounds the cup-shaped insert 22, wherein the walls of the two parts touch at least in sections. Via a projecting shoulder in the inner wall of the pipe section 23, which engages in a correspondingly corresponding diameter taper of the outer wall of the insert piece 22 frictionally, the insert piece 22 is pressed by the pipe section 23 against the round cord sealing ring 21.
  • the insert piece 22 has a contact zone 24, which abuts against the outer diameter of the joint piece 13, by means of an inner diameter that conically tapers downwards in the upper region.
  • the hinge piece 13 is fixed in the housing 12, and has no axial or radial freedom of movement. However, it can be rotated or pivoted about the center of its spherical outer surface in a certain range of rotation, wherein the outlet opening of the joint piece 13 remains completely free in each pivot position.
  • the shower water exits down and into the cup-shaped insert 22 a.
  • This is provided with a ring of holes 25 which is centrally mounted in the insert. The diameter of this ring 25 is larger than that of the opening of the bore 18 down. In the space between the insert 22 and the joint piece 13, the shower water can be calmed to finally exit through the rim of holes 25 down in a substantially calm state.
  • a thin-walled jet disk 28 is contained in the pipe section 23.
  • the three parts are integrally formed as a structural unit by injection molding of a thermoplastic material.
  • the transition between the pipe section 23 and the jet disk 28 is formed by a material weakening 29 which surrounds the round jet disk 28.
  • the approximately conically outwardly curved jet disk 28 has an inclination to the plane of the material weakening 29, which is about 10 °.
  • the jet disk 28 has three rows of concentric holes 31, which essentially form the water passage channels for the shower device 11.
  • the jet disk passes into a region which forms a contact surface 32. In its outer region, it extends substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis 30.
  • a circumferential stiffening ring 33 is integrally formed, on the underside and the outer side of the jet disk 28th
  • a central region 34 of the contact surface 32 is curved inwards. This central region 34 is surrounded by a ring of holes 35, but itself has no holes. To him a spray access can be placed, which is not detectable by the sinking in the vault with the finger.
  • the holes 31 and 35 may be mounted in such a way in the jet disk 28 that they through they convert showering water passing through into shower jets, which can be aligned in a certain range depending on their design.
  • the holes 31 and 35 may be designed differently to achieve different types of effervescent jets, especially with regard to their diameter and their bore direction through the jet disk 28th
  • the internal thread 37 of the housing 12 may be integrally formed as an additional cylinder portion on the housing.
  • the pipe section 23 is as far screwed into the housing 12 that it rests with the insert 22 frictionally against the round cord sealing ring 21.
  • 27 possibilities for attacking tools can be provided in the flange.
  • these are designed as cup-shaped, substantially cylindrical, recesses 38 in the manner of blind holes.
  • the average wall thickness of the jet disk 28 is about 0.7 mm, in the area of material weakening, however, only about 0.2 mm.
  • the width of the film hinge formed by the material weakening 29 is about 0.5 mm to 1 mm and corresponds approximately to the material thickness of the jet disk 28.
  • the circumferential stiffening ring 33 has a maximum material thickness of about 1.2 mm and is with a semicircular cross section formed quasi outside on the jet disk.
  • the diameter of the contact surface is about 10 mm, the diameter of the upwardly curved central region about 4 mm.
  • the curvature of the central region 34 rises a maximum of about 0.5 mm above the plane of the contact surface 32nd Die the water passage channels forming holes 31 and 35 are made equal in diameter in the shower device 11 shown in FIG. 1, wherein this diameter is about 1.1 mm.
  • the holes in the rim 25 of the cup-shaped insert 22 have a diameter of about 2 mm.
  • the diameter of the jet disk is about 26 mm, the outer diameter of the flange 27 about 45 mm.
  • the outer radius of the circumferential stiffening ring 33 is about 1.2 mm, the diameter at about 11 mm, the inner radius of a groove, which forms the material weakening 29 with respect to the jet disk 28, at about 1 mm.
  • the clear height of the contact surface 32 of the jet disk 28 above the plane of the film hinge 29 is about 1.0 mm.
  • the fitting 16 and the hinge piece 13, which is integrally connected to the tube insert 14, are preferably made of metal. Especially suitable for this brass, which is surface-treated, for example, with a chrome plating.
  • the remaining parts of the shower device 11 are made of plastic, suitable are both polyoxymethylene and polypropylene.
  • Fig. 2 shows the shower device 11 from below, as it represents a user.
  • the rotational symmetry becomes clear.
  • the flange 27 has six recesses 38 for applying tools for screwing the pipe section 23 into the housing 12.
  • the material weakening 29 extends with a width of about 2 mm.
  • the jet disk 28 which is provided with three concentric rows of holes 31. As can be seen, the holes of each row are offset from those of the adjacent rows.
  • Stiffening ring 33 which extends over a width of about 2 mm. It encloses the contact surface 32, which is provided with a ring of holes 35. This wreath surrounds the inwardly curved central region 34.
  • Fig. 3 shows in section the lower part of a shower device 11 according to FIG. 1, in which the jet disk 28 has been pressed by an indenting force E inwards. As you can see, it is curved inwards.
  • the angle which a region of the jet disk 28, which lies between the material weakening 29 and the stiffening ring 33 and extends approximately rectilinearly and slightly conically, encloses the plane of the material weakening 29 is approximately 12 °. He can also be lower. Accordingly, the jet disk 28 bulges slightly inward when it is turned inwards than outwards in the starting position.
  • the clear height of the reinforcing ring 33 above the plane of the film hinge 29 is about 0.9 mm, the clear height of the contact surface 34 is about 1.6 mm.
  • the deflection-indentation-force diagram in Fig. 4 From the deflection-indentation-force diagram in Fig. 4, one can see the course of the impression force E.
  • the deflection begins in the plane of the contact surface 32 in the starting position according to FIG. 1, in particular in the region of the stiffening ring 33.
  • the curve of the impression force E starts at the origin and then increases steeply with decreasing slope until it reaches a snap point 40 at a vertex.
  • the push-in force E has risen to about 77 N, while the deflection in this point corresponds approximately to the clear height of the contact surface 32 above the plane of the material weakening 29. It is approx. 1.0 mm. From this snap-in point 40, the force curve runs steeply downwards as the deflection increases.
  • the force curve forms a kind of hysteresis, in that it has a different course during the springback process of the jet disk 28 than during the indenting process. From the point of maximum curvature inward, the force increases with decreasing deflection, but not as strong as in the upper part of the curve. As a result, the curve at the snap-back point 41 only reaches a lower force than at the snap-in point 40. This force can be, for example, about 55 N. It forms another maximum force, namely for the springback process. In this case, the curve when passing their two maxima 40 and 41 has a rounded course, which, however, may also be rather pointed.
  • the snap-in point 40 which passes through the jet disk 28 when Eindrükken, may be at the same deflection as the snap-back point 41. These are in each case the points which, depending on the deflection, are passed in the moment in which the jet disk 28 snaps over each time and under certain circumstances also generates a clearly audible noise.
  • the course of the force curve has at least four sections. At least two sections are provided in each case for the movement process of the jet disk 28 when entering and when jumping out. They are connected at the origin and end point of the maximum deflection, and are interrupted by the snap-over point 40 and the snap-back point 41, respectively. It is important that the force in the snap-in point 40 is above the force in the snap-back point 41.
  • an overhead shower is thus created as a shower device 11, which has a flexible and depressible jet disk 28 with a curvature to the outside.
  • the jet disk is mounted in the housing 12 of the overhead shower by means of a film hinge formed by a material weakening 29 in a flange 27 of a pipe section 23. Due to the formation of the curvature and the storage, the jet disk can be pressed by applying an indenting force to a contact surface 32 inwards in a jump process. After taking away the force, it jumps by itself in another jump process back to the starting position. In each case a maximum force is passed.
  • Leaping causes limescale and other deposits, i.a. blasted or detached at the holes 31,35 of the jet disk.

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