EP2711083B1 - Pomme de douche - Google Patents

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EP2711083B1
EP2711083B1 EP13184900.2A EP13184900A EP2711083B1 EP 2711083 B1 EP2711083 B1 EP 2711083B1 EP 13184900 A EP13184900 A EP 13184900A EP 2711083 B1 EP2711083 B1 EP 2711083B1
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Günter Glunk
Fabian Melle
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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
    • 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
    • B05B1/16—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 having selectively- effective outlets
    • B05B1/1627—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 having selectively- effective outlets with a selecting mechanism comprising a gate valve, a sliding valve or a cock
    • B05B1/1636—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 having selectively- effective outlets with a selecting mechanism comprising a gate valve, a sliding valve or a cock by relative rotative movement of the valve elements
    • 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
    • B05B1/16—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 having selectively- effective outlets
    • B05B1/1627—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 having selectively- effective outlets with a selecting mechanism comprising a gate valve, a sliding valve or a cock
    • B05B1/1636—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 having selectively- effective outlets with a selecting mechanism comprising a gate valve, a sliding valve or a cock by relative rotative movement of the valve elements
    • B05B1/1645—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 having selectively- effective outlets with a selecting mechanism comprising a gate valve, a sliding valve or a cock by relative rotative movement of the valve elements the outlets being rotated during selection
    • B05B1/1654—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 having selectively- effective outlets with a selecting mechanism comprising a gate valve, a sliding valve or a cock by relative rotative movement of the valve elements the outlets being rotated during selection about an axis parallel to the liquid passage in the stationary valve element
    • 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

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  • the invention relates to a shower head with a switch between two beam exit options, as the beam or the beams can be discharged from the shower head.
  • buttons on the shower head housing are known, which can be actuated, for example, radially inward. It is also known to provide rotary rings that can touch a user and operate by turning.
  • the Utility Model DE 20 2010 005 256 U1 discloses a hand shower in which the jet disc forms the bottom portion of a chamber provided in a shower head chamber with one or more chamber areas and the chamber is mounted together with jet disk in the shower head housing as a rocker for selectively setting one of several possible beam shapes.
  • Each jet shape corresponds to a specific rocking position of the jet disk with its interior adjoining chamber relative to the shower head housing.
  • the jet disk takes a different position for each of the different possible beam shapes.
  • the patent US 5,467,927 A discloses a hand shower that can switch between two possible beam shapes.
  • a jet disk of the hand shower can be pressed axially against the force of a return spring from a starting position relative to the showerhead housing axially backwards or inwards and then held in this depressed position. Once the jet disc is released, it returns to its original position, which returns the hand shower to its original position Beam shape is switched.
  • the publication DE 198 59 524 A1 discloses an apparatus for switching jet types in a showerhead by applying force to an actuator coupled to a jet type actuator mechanism.
  • the actuator is operable in relation to the shower head by radially directed in a plane forces and, for example, formed by a shower head surrounding the adjusting ring, which is held radially displaceable on radially acting return springs on the shower head.
  • the invention is based on the object to provide a very easy-to-use way to switch between different beam exit options on a shower head.
  • the invention proposes a shower head with the features specified in claim 1. Further developments of the invention are the subject of dependent claims.
  • the jet disk itself or the shower head acts as an actuating element.
  • the jet disc is usually quite flat or slightly curved, so that the risk of slipping with soapy fingers is not given.
  • the jet disk is large in most cases, so it is easy to find. This results in a new and useful way to operate a switching device within the shower head. According to the invention it is provided that the jet disc returns to its starting position after the actuation of the switching device. To re-actuate the switching device, the jet disk is pressed again.
  • the switching device is formed as a continuous switching device, so that it is switched to each next operation of the jet disk in the next position, so no back-and-forth takes place, but an indexing. This is especially useful if more than two beam exit options are provided.
  • the switching device can thus affect, for example, a valve to an air intake. It can be provided that the beam or the plurality Rays then emerge from the same opening.
  • a second water guide is opened by the switching device, so that the rays exit after actuation of a larger number of jet outlet openings.
  • a saving position in which the jets emerge from only every second jet outlet opening, while they then emerge after switching from all the jet outlet openings.
  • the invention proposes several ways in which the switching device can be actuated by the pressure exerted by the user on the jet disk.
  • the jet disk is designed to be displaceable relative to the shower head housing and acts on the switching device, for example a valve, directly or via a transmission by means of this displacement.
  • the valve may be any known valve of conventional design.
  • showerhead housing is designed to be displaceable relative to the input connection together with the jet disk. By this shift is then also acted directly or via a transmission to the switching device.
  • a linear movement along the longitudinal axis of the shower head or along a perpendicular bisector with respect to the jet disk is preferred.
  • the jet disk is deformable, so that therefore the pressure exerted by the user on the jet disk leads to a deformation of the jet disk, which regresses again after release. Due to the deformability, which may also be localized, the user can act on the valve device, for example on a plunger of the valve device.
  • Yet another possibility proposed by the invention to actuate the switching device by engaging the jet disk, may be that the jet disk is tiltably mounted in the housing. This can be both a tilt about a fixed axis, as well as a tilt around a central point-shaped support point.
  • the jet disk remains in the shifted position until it returns to its original position triggered by a second tap or press.
  • FIG. 1 shows in perspective a shower head, which can be screwed by means of an input terminal 1 at the end of a water pipe.
  • the input terminal has two wrench flats 2.
  • the input terminal 1 is mechanically connected to a showerhead housing 3, which has an approximately hemispherical outer shape and is closed off by a jet disk 4 to the front side, ie on the side facing away from the input terminal 1.
  • a jet disk 4 In the jet disk 4 there are two rows of concentrically arranged jet outlet openings 5, and in the middle a second group of jet outlet openings 6.
  • the jet disk 4 is displaceably mounted in the showerhead housing 3 in the direction of the input connection 1, that is to say in the direction of an axis of rotation of the showerhead housing 3. This displacement can be performed by the user both during the operation of the shower head and when it is not supplied with water. This is indicated by the arrow 7 in FIG. 2 shown.
  • the user presses to switch to the jet disk 4, which then can move into the showerhead housing 3 into it. This is in FIG. 2 shown.
  • the disk 4 moves back into the position of FIG. 1 under the influence of a compression spring arranged in the shower head housing FIG. 3 is shown.
  • the showerhead housing 3 is pivotably mounted on the spherical-shaped inner end 8 of the input terminal.
  • the jet disk 4 has a transverse wall 9 at a distance from the rear side of its front wall. Between the transverse wall 9 and the front wall of the jet disk, a peripheral channel 10 is formed as an outer chamber, from which the in FIG. 1 lead out the beam exit openings 5 mentioned. This channel 10 is bounded on the one hand by an outer skirt 11 of the jet disk 4 and by an inner skirt 12. Within the inner skirt 12, a second chamber 13 is formed, from which the water can flow out of the showerhead housing 3 through the exit possibility 6.
  • a wall 15 is installed parallel to the jet disk 4, pass through the two passages 16, of which the FIG. 4 only one of the passes shows.
  • a passage 14 of the transverse wall 9 engages with a tubular projection in each case a passage 16 of the wall 15 a.
  • a valve element 17 lying on the back of the wall 15 is rotatably mounted in the wall 15, wherein a switching mechanism with cooperating inclined surfaces is formed in the passage.
  • the valve member 17 is applied by a compression spring 18 on the back of the wall 15.
  • a valve opening 19 is present, which is aligned in the position shown with the passage 16.
  • the jet disk 4 is characterized, see FIG. 5 , moved so far in the shower head housing 3 until the transverse wall 9 of the jet disk 4 rests against the wall 15.
  • the valve element 17 is also raised by the mentioned reversing mechanism with inclined surfaces, so that the valve element 17 is no longer abutting against the inside of the wall 15.
  • the compression spring 18 pushes the jet disk 4 back into the starting position via a plunger 20, and at the same time the valve element 17 twists due to the arrangement of the inclined surfaces. In the then adjusting position, see FIG.
  • valve member 17 is again on the inside of the plate 15, but this time its valve opening 19 is aligned with the other passage 16 through the wall 15 and with the other passage 14 through the transverse wall 9.
  • a water supply between the inlet port 1 and the inner chamber 13 made.
  • the jet disk 4 is connected to the showerhead housing 23.
  • the jet disk 4 is provided on the inside of its transverse wall 9 with a telescopic guide device.
  • This consists of a cylindrical projection on the back of the transverse wall 9 and a cylindrical projection engaging in this cylindrical projection of an input terminal 1 connected to the intermediate element.
  • a wall 25 is installed, which has two passage openings 26, of which a passage opening 26 communicates with a connection 24, which leads into an inner chamber 33 of the jet disk.
  • the other passage opening 26 is in communication with a nozzle 24 which leads into the outer chamber 10 of the jet disk 4.
  • the valve element 27, see also the FIG. 9 covers the one passage 26 in the position shown.
  • the other passage 26 is open. The water flows out of the middle chamber 33 of the jet disk 4 through the opening provided there to the outside.
  • valve member 27 is lifted from the plate 25.
  • the spring pushes the jet disk 4 back together with the showerhead housing 23 into its starting position, at the same time the valve element 27 is twisted and lowered.
  • the valve element 27 covers the other passage 26, the water now flows through the in FIG. 13 Right passage 26 shown in the outer chamber 10 of the jet disk 4. The switching is done.
  • the invention proposes a shower head, in particular for a fixed installed shower, for example, an overhead shower before.
  • the shower head has different possibilities of leakage of water from the jet disk.
  • a switching device is provided. This can work in a conventional manner by means of mutually sliding bevels.
  • To actuate the switching device is the jet disk itself, which is pressurized by the user against the exit direction of the water jets.

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Claims (5)

  1. Pomme de douche, en particulier d'une douchette, comportant
    - un carter de pomme de douche (3, 23),
    - un raccord d'entrée (1) pour amener l'eau dans le carter de pomme de douche (3, 23) et pour le fixer,
    - un disque à jet (4, 24) refermant le carter de pomme de douche (3, 23) et pourvu d'au moins une ouverture de sortie de jet (5, 6),
    - au moins un conduit d'eau menant du raccord d'entrée (1) vers le disque à jet (4, 24), dans le carter de pomme de douche (3, 23),
    - au moins deux possibilités de sortie de jet hors du disque à jet (4, 24), et
    - un moyen de commutation pour commuter entre les possibilités de sortie de jet, qui est actionnable par pression sur le disque à jet (4, 24),
    - le disque à jet (4, 24) étant réalisé de façon déformable ou étant monté mobile en translation ou en pivotement par rapport au carter de pomme de douche (3, 23), ou le carter de pomme de douche (3, 23) étant monté mobile en translation conjointement avec le disque à jet par rapport au raccord d'entrée (1),
    - le disque à jet (4, 24) étant conçu pour reprendre, après actionnement du moyen de commutation, sa position de départ qu'il occupait avant l'actionnement du moyen de commutation, sans ré-actionner par commutation le moyen de commutation.
  2. Pomme de douche selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le moyen de commutation est actionnable par translation axiale du carter de pomme de douche pour commuter entre les possibilités de sortie de jet.
  3. Pomme de douche selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans laquelle le moyen de commutation est réalisé sous forme de moyen de commutation continue.
  4. Pomme de douche selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle les deux possibilités de sortie de jet sont différents types de jet.
  5. Pomme de douche selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle les deux possibilités de sortie de jet sont associées à différentes ouvertures de sortie de jet (5, 6) du disque à jet (4, 24).
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