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EP3009571A1
EP3009571A1 EP15003211.8A EP15003211A EP3009571A1 EP 3009571 A1 EP3009571 A1 EP 3009571A1 EP 15003211 A EP15003211 A EP 15003211A EP 3009571 A1 EP3009571 A1 EP 3009571A1
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03CDOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
    • E03C1/00Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
    • E03C1/02Plumbing installations for fresh water
    • E03C1/08Jet regulators or jet guides, e.g. anti-splash devices
    • E03C1/084Jet regulators with aerating means
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03CDOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
    • E03C1/00Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
    • E03C1/02Plumbing installations for fresh water
    • E03C1/08Jet regulators or jet guides, e.g. anti-splash devices
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03CDOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
    • E03C1/00Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
    • E03C1/02Plumbing installations for fresh water
    • E03C1/08Jet regulators or jet guides, e.g. anti-splash devices
    • E03C1/086Jet regulators or jet guides, easily mountable on the outlet of taps

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  • the invention relates to a jet regulator with a jet regulator housing, in the housing interior of which a perforated plate having a plurality of flow holes for dividing the water flowing through is provided.
  • Jet regulator of the type mentioned are already known in various designs. Such jet regulators are mounted on the water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting to produce a homogeneous and laterally non-splashing water jet there. It has also created aerator, which aerate the escaping water steel and mixing the water flowing through it with the ambient air.
  • the water flowing through the noise plate is divided into individual beams by means of the perforated plate, is in the off DE 30 00 799 A1 previously provided jet regulator, inter alia, provided that the flow holes have a polygonal cross-section hole portion, which is followed by a cross-section increasingly extended and downstream cylindrical portion of the hole (see FIG. 4 in DE 30 00 799 A1 ).
  • the flow holes have a polygonal cross-section hole portion, which is followed by a cross-section increasingly extended and downstream cylindrical portion of the hole (see FIG. 4 in DE 30 00 799 A1 ).
  • a jet regulator with a jet regulator housing in the housing interior a perforated plate is provided which has flow holes, which have a constant clear cross-section in the flow direction.
  • the perforated plate is followed by a baffle cone in the flow direction, which forms a constriction in the flow area of the previously known jet regulator.
  • the individual beams generated in the perforated plate can tear the ambient air in the housing interior of the jet regulator housing with it and then hit on the inclined surface of the impact cone so that the ventilated individual jets are broken up and mixed with the entrained air.
  • the prior art jet regulators require a certain flow and sufficient water pressure in the pipeline network, so that sufficient negative pressure is generated on the downstream side of serving as a jet separator perforated plate to suck ambient air into the housing interior of the jet regulator housing.
  • the negative pressure formed at low flow and low water pressures is usually not sufficient to mix the ambient air with the water flowing through can.
  • jet regulator of the type mentioned, which is also at low flow and / or low water pressures, as they are often sought, for example, for water saving purposes, able to produce a sufficiently ventilated and, accordingly, pearly soft water jet.
  • the jet regulator according to the invention should preferably be interchangeable with the known jet regulator designs.
  • the jet regulator according to the invention has a jet regulator housing, in the housing interior of which a perforated plate extending, for example, over the housing cross-section is provided.
  • the perforated plate has a plurality of flow holes, which are intended for dividing the water flowing through. At least one of the flow holes provided in the perforated plate expands toward its downstream side and preferably increasingly conical or conical up to the downstream side. As a result of the conical or conical spreading of the water emerging from the perforated plate, it can mix with the ambient air sucked into the jet regulator housing, even at low flow rates and low water pressures, practically over the entire housing cross section of the jet regulator housing.
  • the good air mixing of the water flowing through is favored even at low flow rates and low water pressures, if at least one flow hole to such a conical or conical widened to its downstream side, that emerging from the flow hole and by the conical shape or conicity widening single beam itself in the housing interior even before the impingement of individual jets on at least one arranged in the housing interior beam molding with the single beam at least one adjacent naturalflußloches mixed.
  • An advantageous embodiment according to the invention provides that on the downstream side of the perforated plate at a distance from this on the housing inner circumference a circumferential baffle slope is provided, which increasingly narrows the clear housing cross-section in this area in the flow direction.
  • the exiting from the flow holes and already enriched with air water meets at a distance to the perforated plate on a baffle, which additionally mixes and divides the already treated water before the thus enriched with air water as a homogeneous, non- spouting and pearly-soft water jet can escape from the jet regulator.
  • a particularly easy to manufacture embodiment according to the invention provides that the baffle slope forms the inflow side of a Wandungsabitess, which is configured as at least one wavy constriction in the longitudinal section.
  • the impact bevel can be designed as an inner peripheral side projection or inner peripheral side projection of the housing peripheral wall and can be integrally connected to the jet regulator housing or a jet regulator housing part.
  • baffle slope is preferred as a wall section of an annular or sleeve-shaped insertion part which can be inserted into the jet regulator housing is preferred is trained.
  • the jet regulator housing is designed in several parts and has at least two, preferably releasably connectable housing parts.
  • the impact bevel is integrally formed on the housing inner circumference of a downstream housing part and / or that the perforated plate is integrally formed in the housing interior of an inflow-side housing part.
  • the perforated plate can be connected downstream of at least one mesh or lattice structure in the flow direction.
  • the tapered or conically emerging from the flow holes and impinging on the at least one network or lattice water is braked there and decomposed with the adjacent disassembled portions of emerging from the adjacent flow holes water to then emerge as a soft overall beam from the jet regulator can.
  • Such a lattice structure can also be formed by an inserted metal mesh, which is formed from two sets of preferably rectangularly interwoven metal wires, preference is given to an embodiment in which the mesh or lattice structure is formed by two sets of webs crossing each other at intersecting nodes.
  • Such a network or lattice structure which is formed from two flocks, at crossing nodes intersecting webs, can be produced in a simple manner as a plastic injection molded part.
  • a preferred embodiment according to the invention provides that the at least one, the perforated plate in the flow direction downstream network structure of radial webs and thus crossing at crossing nodes concentric webs is formed.
  • the perforated plate is followed in the direction of flow by at least two spaced-apart mesh or grid structures.
  • a preferred development according to the invention provides that at least one flow hole in the flow direction is aligned with a radial web of a network structure and with a concentric web of an adjacent network structure.
  • the divided in the perforated plate water flows out of the flow holes of the perforated plate less than single jet and rather than spray cone.
  • each mesh or lattice structure is formed by an insertion part which can be inserted into the housing interior of the jet regulator housing.
  • each insert part has on the outer peripheral side a circumferential annular wall, to which webs of the mesh or grid structure are held and preferably integrally formed.
  • the breaking up and dividing of the spray cone emerging from the throughflow holes of the perforated plate is further promoted if at least the concentric webs and preferably also the radial webs of a network structure in front in the direction of flow has an equal or smaller web thickness compared to the webs of a network structure adjacent downstream.
  • the flow holes provided in the perforated plate can be arranged on concentric hole circles.
  • a preferred embodiment according to the invention provides that the perforated plate has a central hole-free baffle which bounds at least one annular wall, that the at least one annular wall has radially oriented passage openings, and that on the arranged in the baffle plane side of the flow openings in each case a naturalflußloch the perforated plate is provided.
  • the deflected in this way in the region of the ring wall water is first braked, deflected to the side and mixed by optionally in opposite directions to each other inflowing streams before flowing through the through holes of the perforated plate and on the downstream side of the perforated plate in the form of a corresponding number of Sprühkegeln can escape.
  • the downstream end face of the jet regulator housing is formed by a net or honeycomb cell structure, and if the downstream end surface forming Mesh or honeycomb cell structure either inextricably connected to the jet regulator housing and in particular integrally formed or formed by an insertable into the jet regulator housing insert.
  • the equalization of the exiting from the jet regulator overall jet is still favored when the downstream or the end face of the jet regulator housing forming net or honeycomb cell structure is formed by webs, which taper at least in a downstream partial region in the flow direction.
  • the jet regulator according to the invention is designed as a ventilated jet regulator, in whose housing interior at least one ventilation opening opens, which connects the housing interior with the atmosphere.
  • at least one ventilation channel can be provided in a double-walled section of the jet regulator housing or in an annular gap surrounding the jet regulator housing, which is designed to be open towards the atmosphere.
  • FIGS. 1 to 13 three embodiments 1, 10, 100 of a jet regulator are shown.
  • the jet regulator designs 1, 10, 100 are intended to be mounted on the water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting in order to form a homogeneous and laterally non-splashing water jet there.
  • the jet regulator designs 1, 10, 100 are designed as aerated jet regulators, in which the water flowing through is mixed with ambient air and enriched.
  • the jet regulator embodiments 1, 10, 100 have a sleeve-shaped and in cross section round jet regulator housing 2.
  • the in the FIGS. 1 to 5 shown Strahlregleraus arrangement 1 has on the housing outer circumference of the jet regulator housing 2 on an external thread 3, which cooperates with an internal thread, which is arranged on the inner peripheral side at the water outlet of the outlet fitting not shown here.
  • the jet regulator embodiment 1 illustrated here can be screwed into the water outlet in such a way that the downstream end face of the jet regulator housing 2 is arranged practically in one plane with the downstream end edge of the outlet fitting.
  • a perforated plate 5 In the housing interior of the jet regulators 1, 10, 100, a perforated plate 5 is provided, which carries a plurality of naturalflußlöchern 6. At least one through-hole 6 and preferably all through-holes 6 of the perforated plate 5 extend conically or conically at least in an outflow-side partial region to their downstream side.
  • the provided in the perforated plate 5 through holes 6 are intended for dividing the water flowing through. Due to the conical or conical spreading of the water emerging from the perforated plate, it can mix with the ambient air sucked into the jet regulator housing, even at low flow rates and low water pressures practically over the entire cross section of the jet regulator housing 2.
  • the flow holes 6 extend conically or conically in such a way that the water jet emerging from the flow holes 6 and widening due to the conical shape or conicity becomes at least one adjacent one in the interior of the housing prior to the impact of individual jets on at least one beam molding arranged in the interior of the housing fürflußloches mixed.
  • FIGS. 1 to 6 In order to divide the water flowing through even more and to mix with ambient air, is in the in the FIGS. 1 to 6 shown aerator embodiments 1, 10 of the perforated plate 2 in the flow direction downstream of at least one and preferably at least two network structures, which are formed of radial webs 7 and thus crossing nodes 8 concentric webs 9.
  • At least one flow hole 6 and preferably all flow holes 6 are aligned in the flow direction with a radial web 7 of a network structure and here the network structure connected downstream in the flow direction and with a concentric web 9 of an adjacent network structure arranged on the inflow side.
  • the respectively aligned with one of the flow holes 6 webs 7, 9 cover or intersect here in a central or central region of the associated fürflußloches 6 in the different levels of these network structures.
  • each of the network structures forming a jet regulator device is formed by an insertion part 11, 12 which can be inserted into the housing interior of the jet regulator housing 2.
  • Each of these insert parts 11, 12 has on the outer peripheral side a peripheral annular wall 13, to which the radial webs 7 of the network structure crossing with the concentric webs 9 are connected and integrally formed here.
  • each flow hole 6 appears split in the perforated plate 5 in the flow direction in a plurality of further smaller flow openings.
  • the perforated plates 2 provided in the jet regulator embodiments 1, 10, 100 have a central baffle surface 14 which is delimited by at least one annular wall 15.
  • This annular wall 15 has oriented in the radial direction through openings 16, which are spaced apart here over the circumference of the annular wall 15 from each other.
  • FIGS. 7 to 13 shown jet regulator design 100 on the downstream side of the perforated plate 2 at a distance from this on the housing inner circumference a circumferential baffle slope 19, which increasingly narrows the clear housing cross-section in this area in the flow direction.
  • This baffle slope 19 is formed by the inflow side of a wall section designed as a wavy constriction in longitudinal section.
  • the wall portion having the baffle slope 19 is configured here as a ring-shaped or sleeve-shaped insertion part 20 which can be inserted into the jet regulator housing 2.
  • the downstream end face of the jet regulators 1, 10, 100 is formed by a mesh structure 22 or a honeycomb cell structure 21. While the network or honeycomb cell structure 22, 21 forming the outflow-side end face of the jet regulators 1, 100 is permanently connected to the jet regulator housing 2, the outlet structure 22 of the in FIG. 6 shown jet regulator 10 formed by an insertable into the jet regulator housing 2 insert 23. From a comparison of FIGS. 8 and 10 can be seen that the the downstream face of the Beam regulator 100 forming net structure 22 by radial and concentric webs 24, 25 is formed, which taper at least in an outflow-side portion in the flow direction. Since these webs 24, 25 taper in the flow direction at least in a downstream part, homogenization and equalization of the water emerging from the jet regulator housing 2 by the network structure is additionally promoted in the form of a homogeneous overall jet.
  • the jet regulator housing 2 is formed here by two housing parts 26, 27 which can be detachably connected to one another and are preferably latchable with one another, of which the front housing part 26 on the inflow side is integrally connected to the perforated plate 6. So that the dirt particles possibly entrained in the water can not impair the proper function of the jet regulator, the jet regulator housing 2 is preceded by an attachment or filter screen 28 which is detachable on the inflow side Housing part 26 is held.
  • This attachment or filter screen 28 has a multiplicity of round or rectangular, in particular hexagonal, filter or sieve openings.

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