EP1853769B1 - Shower device - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a shower device with a sanitary fitting, in which a sanitary valve is arranged, which serves among other things to control a shower hose connection.

When renovating bathrooms, the problem may be that you want to have additional showering facilities, but the expense of installing strands of wire completely under plaster is avoided. It is already known for this purpose, a side shower system for subsequent self-installation in such a way ( DE 29604312 ) that for the side shower provides a wall bar, which receives its water via a guided from the sanitary fitting hose. The connection to the wall bar then contains a second changeover valve so that the normal hand shower can be connected via another connection. In this way, the amount and temperature of the water for the side shower can be controlled via the existing valve, while for switching between the side shower and the hand shower, a switching valve is present at another location.

There is already known a device for a bathtub or shower cubicle, in which at the end of a shower hose, a releasably attachable to a holding surface holder and a holder carried by the water distribution device is mounted. The water distribution device has an outlet for a hand shower and for a water heater on ( EP 1 384 828 ).

Also known is a shower device in which an adapter is arranged between a holding tube and a sanitary fitting, which directs the water from the sanitary fitting directly into the holding tube. A shower hose can also be connected to this adapter ( DE 20304879 ).

Also known is a shower system in which a plurality of shower heads are connected to one another by means of pipes ( US 6415461 ).

The use of hoses for connecting shower heads with fittings is also known ( US 2004/0217196 ).

Further known is an adapter for a shower, which has a shower head and a branch for a mixture of steam and hot water ( US 5788160 ).

Also known is a hand shower provided with a handle, in which the handle can be used in a vertical groove in a wall to the holder ( EP-A-0 735 205 ).

The invention is based on the object to provide a way to be able to control an additional no separate connection to the house installation having showering device via an existing sanitary fitting.

To solve this problem, the invention proposes a shower device with the features mentioned in claim 1. Further developments of the invention are the subject of dependent claims.

The hand shower belonging to the sanitary fitting thus has, in addition to its normal jet outlet element, an outlet connection which can be connected to an input connection of a further shower device.

If this output terminal is connected to the input terminal of the further shower device, the further shower device can be controlled by the sanitary fittings. So there is no further manual sanitary valve required to change or adjust, for example, the amount and / or the temperature of reaching the other shower device water. Only one additional valve is required to open or close the hand shower exit port.

In a further development of the invention, it is provided that the hand shower has a mechanical coupling device for the mechanical coupling of the hand shower to the further shower device.

In particular, it is provided that the coupling device is designed such that in the mechanical connection between the hand shower and the other shower device at the same time Output terminal of the hand shower with the input port of the other shower device is hydraulically connected. This makes it possible, at the same time to establish the fluid connection between the two parts by a simple mechanical connection process.

To open the output port, as already mentioned, a valve may be present. This valve can be operated, for example, by a manually operated actuator. Then the user can consciously establish the fluid connection.

The valve can be arranged for example in the hand shower itself. It can be designed and arranged like a conventional valve for switching between different types of radiation of a hand shower, so that previous solutions can be used by arranged in hand showers valves.

However, it is also conceivable and within the scope of the invention to arrange the valve for opening the outlet connection of the hand shower in the sanitary fitting itself. In this case, for example, a hose having two water guides may be used.

It is also possible that the valve is indeed arranged in the hand shower, but its actuator is mounted in the sanitary fitting.

Another possibility proposed by the invention is that the valve for opening and closing the output terminal by the establishment or release of a mechanical connection with the input port of the shower device is actuated. Then the user does not have any carry out additional activities in order to be able to control the further shower facility.

For example, the mechanical connection, which also produces the fluid connection, be designed as a plug-in coupling, so that the output port in the hand shower forms part of this plug-in coupling, the other part is arranged in the further shower device. Plug-in couplings are known per se, so that known solutions can be used, wherein optionally an adaptation to the present here specific application can be performed.

The valve which opens and closes the outlet connection of the hand shower can, for example, be designed in such a way that, when the outlet connection is open, the water supply to the jet outlet element is at least partially switched off. It may also be provided a complete shutdown. This means that when the connection between the hand shower and further shower device is established, the water is then only supplied to the further shower device or, in the first place, to the further shower device.

However, it is also conceivable and within the scope of the invention that the valve is designed such that when the outlet port is open, the water supply to the jet outlet element of the hand shower is maintained. In a mechanical coupling between the hand shower and other shower device, depending on the attachment and training of the other shower device, the hand shower can still be used as a head shower or side shower.

According to the invention may be provided in a development that the output terminal and / or the coupling device so on the Hand shower are arranged that when manufactured connection with the other shower device, the jet outlet element facing in a direction facing the user. This is useful if the jet outlet element is to continue to be used for showering.

In a further development it can be provided that the coupling device has a water-carrying plug-in nipple. This can be covered, for example, with not connected hand shower, so that it is exposed only when making the mechanical connection. For this purpose, a sleeve or a similar element can serve, which may also have additional functions, for example as a functional element for the holder of the hand shower when it is not used.

For example, in a further development of the invention, the wall bar additionally serve as a normal wall bar by having a preferably displaceable holder for the hand shower, so that it can be used as overhead shower without operating the wall bar.

In development of the invention it is provided that the wall bar is hollow, so that their interior can serve as a water guide.

In a development of the invention, it can be provided that the input connection of the shower unit designed as a wall bar and / or the part of the coupling device assigned to the wall bar is arranged in the region of the lower end of the wall bar.

According to the invention, it is provided that the further shower device has at least one overhead shower. By attaching the hand shower to the coupling device can then provide the overhead shower with water.

The wall bar can also have at least one side shower.

To switch between overhead shower and side shower, the shower device may have its own diverter valve.

The amount of water exiting from the overhead shower or the side shower and its temperature but is still controlled or determined by the sanitary valve in the sanitary fitting.

According to the invention it can be provided that in the region of the lower end of the wall rod, a console is arranged, which has the parts of the connecting device and / or the coupling device. The console can have or form additional functional elements, for example storage options for items needed or desired during showering.

Figur 1

rein schematisch die Übersicht über die Erfindung;

Figur 2

eine Seitenansicht einer Handbrause, die für die Brauseeinrichtung der Figur 1 verwendbar ist;

Figur 3

eine Seitenansicht einer weiteren Handbrause;

Figur 4

die Handbrause der Figur 3 in einem zur Verbindung mit der Wandstange bereiten Zustand;

Figur 5

einen Längsschnitt durch eine Ankoppeleinrichtung zwischen einer Wandstange und der Handbrause der Figur 2;

Figur 6

den der Figur 5 entsprechenden Schnitt in verbundenem Zustand der beiden Teile;

Figur 7

eine der Figur 1 entsprechende Darstellung einer Duscheinrichtung, die für die Handbrause der Figur 2 besonders geeignet ist.

Further features, details and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the claims and abstract, the wording of which is incorporated by reference into the content of the description, the following description of a preferred embodiment of the invention and from the drawing. Hereby show:

FIG. 1

purely schematically the overview of the invention;

FIG. 2

a side view of a hand shower, which for the shower device of FIG. 1 is usable;

FIG. 3

a side view of another hand shower;

FIG. 4

the hand shower of the FIG. 3 in a ready for connection with the wall rod state;

FIG. 5

a longitudinal section through a coupling device between a wall rod and the hand shower of FIG. 2 ;

FIG. 6

the the FIG. 5 corresponding section in the connected state of the two parts;

FIG. 7

one of the FIG. 1 corresponding representation of a shower device for the hand shower of FIG. 2 is particularly suitable.

FIG. 1 shows in a highly simplified schematic representation of the parts with which the invention is to be explained. At any point of a bathroom, a sanitary fitting 1 is mounted, in which a sanitary valve is housed. For example, it is a thermostatic valve, which is operated by means of an actuating element 2. From the sanitary fitting 1 performs a connection 3 for a shower hose 4 addition. At the end of the shower hose 4, a hand shower 5 is connected, which has a handle 6 and a shower head 7. At the in FIG. 1 To be seen front of the shower head 7 is a jet outlet in shape arranged a jet disk 8, which is provided with different jet outlet openings.

Regardless of the sanitary fitting 1, a further shower device 10 is mounted in the bathroom, for example, attached to the wall. This further shower device 10 has no water leading connection with the house installation, but is independent of the sanitary fitting 1 attached.

The further shower device includes a wall rod 11, which is formed as a hollow tube. The cross section preferably deviates from the circular shape. The wall rod 11 extends between a arranged at its lower end console 12 and arranged at its upper end overhead shower 13, which is a shower in the example shown, in which the water from a slot 14 in the form of a thin fan exit.

In the in FIG. 1 see front of the wall bar 11 individual jet outlet openings 15 are formed, the water leading are connected to the interior of the wall rod 11. On the wall bar 11, a holder 16 is arranged, which surrounds the wall bar 11 partially and slidably disposed in the longitudinal direction of the wall bar. It can be set in any position, for example, by an internal stress of the material from which the holder 16 is made. At its side, a conventional cone holder 18 is attached via a rotary joint 17. In this cone holder 18, the handle 6 of the hand shower 5 can be inserted. The wall bar 11 can be used in this way as a conventional wall bar. The holder 16 is designed so that it leaves free the central region of the front side of the wall bar 11 in which the jet outlet elements 15 are located.

In the console 12, a recess 19 is centrally formed, in the center of a socket 20 can be seen. This bush 20 forms an input port for water and is connected to the hollow interior of the wall rod 11.

The invention now provides for the hand shower 5 to be provided with an outlet connection which can be connected to the socket 20 of the wall bar 11 so that the water introduced through the shower hose 4 can reach the inside of the wall bar 11. This is initially compared with in the form FIG. 1 deviating hand shower in FIG. 2 be explained. The hand shower 5 stroked the FIG. 2 is not for the wall bar 11 of the FIG. 1 but for another wall bar. The hand shower 5 has the shape of a thin cylinder. At its lower end, a thread 21 is formed for connecting the existing at the end of the shower hose 4 union nut. In the lateral surface of the cylinder, a field with individual jet outlet elements 22 is formed. These jet outlet elements 22 are oriented so that they do not emit all the parallel rays, but that the opening angle of the emitted jet fan is smaller than corresponds to the circumference of the field.

At the end of the hand shower 5 facing away from the connection for the shower hose 4, a rotatable ring element 23 is arranged, which forms an actuating element for a switching valve arranged in the interior of the hand shower 5 '. In the end face 24, an outlet connection for the water introduced through the shower hose 4 is arranged. This can be a socket that interacts with a nipple of a wall bar. The example of FIG. 2 was chosen to show that the arrangement of an outlet port on a hand-held shower, as suggested by the invention, need not affect the appearance of the hand-held shower in any way. The hand shower can be used and used in the same way as before. At a wall bar, with the hand shower after FIG. 2 should be used, it would be useful to the input port to the bottom, so that the hand shower is arranged in extension of the wall bar. Of course it is also possible to use a wall bar with the in FIG. 1 illustrated form, the hand shower of the FIG. 2 to attach to the bottom of the overhead shower 13, which would have the side effect that the hand shower can serve as a side shower at the same time.

The FIGS. 3 and 4 now show a hand shower, especially for the wall bar of the FIG. 1 is intended, namely for coupling in the recess 19 in the console 12. The hand shower contains, as already mentioned, a shower head 7 with a jet disk 8. The jet outlet elements or jet openings are not shown here.

At the back of the shower head 7, a projection 26 is formed, which has the shape of a button. With this approach 26, the hand shower can hang on a corresponding bracket. The projection 26 is formed so that it can be pushed by pressure on its back in the housing of the shower head 7, see FIG. 4 , In this case, then connected to the water guide in the interior of the shower head 7 connected nipple 27, which is intended to engage in the socket 20 in the console 12.

Now to another embodiment, in the Figures 5 and 6 is shown. The FIG. 5 and 6 shows in its upper part the lower End of a wall bar 30, which has in its interior a water guide 31 formed by a hose. In the lower end of the wall bar 30, a plug 32 is inserted, which has a continuous channel 33. The plug 32 then forms a sleeve 34 in the lower region into which a nipple 35 is screwed. The hollow nipple 35 has in the region of its free end individual webs 36, which form spaces between them.

The plug 32 is screwed by means of a wall bracket 37 to the wall. This wall bracket is used with the help of the plug 32 and the holder of the wall bar 30th

Over the sleeve 34, an outer sliding sleeve 38 is placed, which is pushed by a voltage applied to a shoulder of the sleeve 34 spring 39 upwards, that is in the direction of the plug 32. Between the sleeve 34 and the sliding sleeve 38, a pivot hook 40 is inserted, which projects in the position shown in the interior of the sleeve 34 inside. If the sleeve 38 against the action of the spring 39 in FIG. 5 shifted downwards, the radial outer side 41 of the pivot hook 40 passes into a groove 42, where the inside of the sliding sleeve 38 has a larger diameter. As a result, the pivot hook 40 can be pivoted outwards, so that its inner edge 43 is displaced outwardly from the interior of the sleeve 34.

With the interior of the sleeve 34, one end of a hand shower 45 cooperates, which in section the FIG. 5 is shown in its end region. It is a hand shower, which is similar to the hand shower 5 in FIG. 2 , The end of the hand shower 45 includes a circumferential groove 46 which has a certain distance from the front end. If the hand shower is inserted into the sleeve 34, then the pivot hooks 40, of which there are more than one in FIG. 5 represented in this groove 46 and thereby lock the hand shower in the sleeve 34. In the end region of the hand shower a valve 47 is housed, which is closed by the action of a spring 48 in the normal state.

After inserting the hand shower creates the in FIG. 6 shown position. The end of the valve closing plate 49 abuts against the outer ends of the webs 36. These move the valve closing plate 49 so far into the interior of the hand shower that the valve is open. The passing through the hand shower and the water guide 50 water flows past the valve closing plate 49 and through the spaces between the webs 36 into the interior of the plug 32. From there, the water enters the water guide 31 of the wall bar 30th

To release the connection, the sliding sleeve 38 in FIG. 6 pushed down so that the pivot hooks 40 disengage from the groove 46. Then the hand shower can be pulled out of the input connection of the wall bar 30 again.

FIG. 7 shows one of the FIG. 1 corresponding representation in which the hand shower 5, the shape of the hand shower of FIG. 2 having. With its front end face, it is inserted into the axial input terminal of a wall bar 11, which is designed as a round the shape of the hand shower 5 weiteretzendes tube. In the region of its upper end, the pipe passes over an arc 51 in the overhead shower 13, which here has the shape of a flat disk with a large beam exit surface.

Claims (18)

1. A shower device comprising

   - a sanitary fitting (1)

   - a sanitary valve located inside the sanitary fitting (1),

   - a shower hose port (3) controllable by the sanitary valve,

   - a hand-held shower (5, 45), which is connected via a shower hose (4) to the shower hose port (3) and comprises at least one jet outlet element and an outlet port (24) to be opened selectively, and

   - an accessory shower having an inlet port,

   - wherein the hand-held shower (5, 45) comprises a mechanical-coupling device for mechanical coupling to the accessory shower, and the coupling device is formed so that in case of a mechanical connection between the hand-held shower (5, 45) and the accessory shower, the outlet port of the hand-held shower (5, 45) is also connected with the inlet port of the accessory shower, and

   - wherein the accessory shower is formed as a hollow wall-mounted rail (11, 30) with its interior serving as a waterway and comprising at least one overhead shower and/or at least one side shower and not having an own connection to a house installation.
2. The shower device according to claim 1, wherein the outlet port (24) is opened by a valve.
3. The shower device according to claim 2, wherein the valve can be operated by means of a manually activated element.
4. The shower device according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the valve is located in the hand-held shower (5, 45).
5. The shower device according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the valve is located in the sanitary fitting (1).
6. The shower device according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein the valve is operated by establishing a mechanical connection between the hand-held shower (5, 45) and the inlet port of the accessory shower.
7. The shower device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the outlet connection (24) of the hand-held shower (5, 45) comprises a part of a plug-in coupling, of which the other part is located in the accessory shower.
8. The shower device according to any one of claims 2 to 7, wherein the valve is formed such that when the outlet port of the hand-held shower (5, 45) is open, the water supply to the jet outlet element of the hand-held shower (5, 45) is at least partially switched off.
9. The shower device according to any one of claims 2 to 8, wherein the valve is formed such that when the outlet port of the hand-held shower (5, 45) is open, the water supply to the jet outlet element of the hand-held shower (5, 45) is maintained.
10. The shower device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the outlet port out of the hand-held shower (5, 45) and/or the coupling device are/is arranged on the hand-held shower (5, 45) such that when the connection is established between the hand-held shower (5, 45) and the accessory shower, the jet outlet element of the hand-held shower (5, 45) points in a user-facing direction.
11. The shower device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the coupling device comprises a water guiding plug-in nipple (27).
12. The shower device according to claim 11, wherein the plug-in nipple (27) is covered and is only exposed when the mechanical connection is established.
13. The shower device according to claim 12, wherein a covering element (26) is formed as a functional element for the hand-held shower (5, 45).
14. The shower device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the accessory shower itself is mechanically mounted to a wall or the like.
15. The shower device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the wall-mounted rail (11) comprises a preferably sliding holder (16) for the hand-held shower (5, 45) not functionally connected with it.
16. The shower device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the inlet port into the wall-mounted rail (11, 30) and/or on the part of the coupling device associated to the wall-mounted rail (11, 30) are/is arranged in the area at the lower end of the wall-mounted rail (11, 30).
17. The shower device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the head shower (13) and/or the side shower are/is controllable by the sanitary valve inside the sanitary fitting (1).
18. The shower device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein in the area of the lower end of the wall-mounted rail (11, 30) a console (12) is provided, which comprises the parts of the connection device and/or the coupling device.

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