FR2630902A1 - LOCAL FOR SHOWER AND CEILING ELEMENT, IN PARTICULAR FOR SHOWER LOCAL - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a shower room and a ceiling element, in particular for a shower room. The shower room, of the type comprising at least one water inlet pipe 10 and members 5 for controlling the water supply, is remarkable in that it comprises at least one ceiling element 7 in which is provided at least one closed cavity 8 capable of being connected to said water inlet pipe, the lower face 11, delimiting said cavity, having a plurality of orifices 12 intended for the ejection of water passing through said cavity.

Description

The present invention relates to a room for shower.

  Generally, a shower room includes, for example, a shower tray, possibly surrounded by side walls of protection, and a pipe whose one end is connected to a water inlet pipe and whose other end is provided with a showerhead, which allows the projection of water in the form of a multitude of fine pressurized jets

  through orifices formed therein.

  Although very widely used, this conception of

  shower rooms are no less inconveniences

  vantages. Indeed, while currently we are looking in particular to

  embedding in the walls the bodies of the faucets

  For reasons of safety and aesthetics, the assembly formed by the pipe and the shower head is always arranged protruding from the wall

  to which it is attached, which is particularly unsightly

  that, even dangerous for the user.

  The present invention aims to overcome these disadvantages and concerns a room for shower whose

  design is such that it combines security and aesthetics.

  For this purpose, the shower room, of the type including in particular at least one water inlet pipe and organs for controlling the water supply, is remarkable, according to the invention, in that it comprises at least one ceiling element in which is formed at least one closed cavity that can be connected to said water inlet pipe, the lower face delimiting said cavity having a plurality of orifices intended for the ejection of the water flowing through

said cavity.

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  Thus, thanks to the invention, the shower room is

  chit elements usually projecting from the walls of said room, since the water inlet pipe without projecting from said room can reach the ceiling element directly by being connected to the closed cavity formed in it, said cavity then acting as an apple

shower.

  The present invention also relates to a ceiling element, especially for shower room, whose design allows the room to be free of elements usually

  arranged in projection relative to its walls.

  For this purpose, the ceiling element, especially for shower room, is remarkable, according to the invention, in that it comprises at least one closed cavity that can be connected to a water inlet pipe, the lower face, delimiting said cavity-é, having a plurality of orifices for the ejection of water

passing through said cavity.

  Thus, thanks to the ceiling element incorporating a closed cavity to which the water supply pipe is connected, the walls of said room no longer have, for example, the assembly consisting of the pipe and the shower head.

usually expected.

  According to another characteristic, said ceiling element may consist of a plate and an open casing attached with sealing to said plate, said cavity corresponding to the interior volume delimited by said

casing and said plate.

  In a preferred embodiment, said open box is attached to the top of the plate, the bottom of said box, corresponding to the upper face of said

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  cavity, being provided with a nozzle for connecting the water supply pipe, while the portion of the plate defining the lower face of said cavity is

  provided with said water ejection ports.

  Advantageously, said cavity is made symmetrically with respect to the axis orthogonal to the plane of said

  -element and passing in the middle.

  In a first variant embodiment, the lower face of the cavity provided with said ejection orifices

  water can have a circular shape.

  However, in a second variant embodiment, the lower face of the cavity provided with said orifices

  ejection of water may have a polygonal shape.

  Advantageously, for aesthetic reasons, the portion of the plate corresponding to the underside of the cavity and provided with said water ejection orifices protrudes from said plate. Moreover, said ejection orifices

  of water may respectively comprise ejector nozzles

  tion, said orifices being, moreover, regularly

  distributed on said lower face of the cavity.

  According to another feature, said element may comprise at least one opening, external to said cavity and closed by a cover made of at least a translucent material, low-voltage lighting means being fixed to said element so as to diffuse the light

  to said room through said cache.

  Advantageously, said opening has a ring shape concentric with said cavity. In another embodiment, said opening may have a shape

  polygonal concentric with said cavity.

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  Thus, when said opening, whose shape corresponds preferably to that of the outer face of said cavity, is illuminated by the lighting means and a

  a multitude of fine pressurized streams of water spring from

  called orifices, we obtain an undeniable aesthetic effect. The invention also relates to a shower room of the type comprising at least one ceiling element as defined above, remarkable in that it comprises a plurality of water inlet ducts, one of which is connected to said cavity and the others of which are connectable, preferably on the upper side of said element, to equipment provided in said room, such as a spray boom, a hose-shower set, and the like, through passages. arranged in said element

ceiling.

  Thus, a shower room already including, for example, a spray boom and a set usually consisting of a completed pipe of a shower head can advantageously be equipped with a ceiling element according to the invention without requiring work. since they can be connected directly, through passages in the ceiling element, to the inlet ducts

of water. -

  Conversely, these water supply ducts may eventually be used for installation by

  example of a spray boom.

  The figures of the appended drawing will make it clear how the invention can be realized. In these figures,

  identical references designate similar elements.

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  Figure 1 is a perspective view partially

  cut away from a shower room according to the invention.

  Figure 2 shows in section a ceiling element according to the invention. Figure 3 is a bottom view on a reduced scale

  said ceiling element along the arrow-F of Figure 2.

  FIG. 4 represents in section a variant embodiment

said ceiling element.

  FIG. 5 is a bottom view on a reduced scale of said ceiling element along arrow F1 in FIG. 4. FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic perspective view of a shower room comprising a ceiling element according to FIG.

  the invention as well as ancillary equipment.

  Referring to Figure 1, the room for shower 1 comprises, for example, a shower tray 2 resting on a tiled floor 3 and arranged, in this case, between three walls 4a, 4b, 4c perpendicular to each other others, the wall 4c, parallel to the wall 4a, being partially shown. Parts 5 for controlling the supply of cold and hot water are arranged on the wall 4a and may be valves whose bodies are advantageously embedded in the wall for reasons of safety and aesthetics. These bodies or valves 5 are connected to a non-mixing valve

represent.

  According to the invention, the shower room 1 comprises a ceiling element 7 in which is formed at least one closed cavity 8 which can be connected by its upper face 9 delimiting it to a water inlet pipe 10 coming from the mixer and opening from the wall 4a above

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  1 of said ceiling element 7. The lower face 11, which delimits the cavity 8 and which is, therefore, turned facing the shower tray 2, has a plurality of orifices 12 regularly distributed and intended for the ejection of the water passing through the cavity 8 and arriving via the pipe 10, when the valves 5 are actuated. The closed cavity 8 is preferably arranged in the center of the ceiling element 7, the latter being able to be made of a material

  synthetic and obtained, for example, by molding.

  As shown in Figure 1, the ceiling element 7 is suspended from the ceiling 14 of the room 1 by rods 15 schematically shown, but it could be fixed by brackets to the walls 4a, 4b, 4c or rested on fixed cleats to the walls. Thus, in the embodiment

  illustrated, the ceiling element 7 acts as a false

  ceiling. However, it goes without saying that it could correspond

  to the ceiling itself in which a closed cavity would have

been arranged.

  As can be seen in FIG. 1, the walls 4a, 4b, and 4c, thanks to the invention, are free of elements that usually project from said walls, such as the assembly consisting of a flexible or rigid pipe to which connected a showerhead, since the water inlet pipe 10 opens out of the wall 4a above said ceiling element 7 (if the thickness thereof permits, the inlet pipe 10 could be embedded in the element to open into the closed cavity 8), while the closed cavity 8 acts as shower head. The absence of elements usually arranged projecting from the walls of the room thus increases the

  safety and improves the aesthetics of said shower room.

  Furthermore, we see in this Figure 1 that low voltage lighting means 16 are fixed to the ceiling element 7 on its upper face. Openings 17 are

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  1 then formed in the ceiling element 7 being closed by covers 18 made of a preferably translucent material. This arrangement thus makes it possible to diffuse the light coming from the lighting means 16 into the shower room through the translucent covers 18, which provides, when the water, issuing from the pipe 10 and passing through the cavity, is projected under a plurality of fine streams pressurized by the orifices, a

indisputable aesthetic effect.

  In the illustrated embodiment, a front panel 19 obstructs the space delimited between the ceiling element 7 and

the ceiling 14.

  The ceiling element 7 shown in section in Figure 2 is intended in particular for a room for shower. This element 7 comprises at least one closed cavity 8 capable of being connected to a water inlet pipe, not shown in this figure, the lower face 11, which delimits said cavity 8, having a plurality of orifices 12 intended to the ejection of the water passing through the cavity and

  arriving through the water supply line.

  In the particular embodiment of embodiment illustrated

  FIGS. 2 and 3, said ceiling element 7 constitutes

  killed by a plate 20 and an open casing 21 attached with sealing to the plate, the closed cavity 8 corresponding to the internal volume defined by the plate 20 and the casing 21. Preferably, the boltier open 21 is attached to the top of the plate so that the bottom 22 of the boftier corresponds to the upper face 9 of the cavity 8, while the lower face 11 of the cavity 8 corresponds to the

  part 23 of the plate 20, delimited by the casing 21.

  Thus, the upper face 9 of the cavity 8, corresponding to the bottom 22 of the housing 21, comprises a nozzle 24 intended to receive the end of the non-water inlet pipe.

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  illustrated, while the lower face 11 of the cavity, corresponding to the portion 23 of the plate 20, is provided

of a plurality of orifices 12.

  The cavity 8 is centered symmetrically with respect to the orthogonal axis 25 to the plane of the ceiling element 7 (plane

  horizontal on the figure) and passing through its middle.

  The seal between the casing 21 and the plate 20 is obtained for example by means of a suitable adhesive product. One could possibly realize the ceiling element

directly by molding.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the plate 20 of the ceiling element 7 is substantially square in shape, but other possible forms could be envisaged depending on

  especially that of the room for shower.

  The orifices 12 are provided with ejection nozzles 26 allowing a fine and pressurized projection of the water, and they are regularly distributed on the lower face 11 of the cavity 8 corresponding to the part 23 of the plate

20.

  This portion 23 or lower face 11 is advantageously arranged projecting with respect to the plane of the plate 20

in an aesthetic concern.

  In the embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3, the orifices 12, to which the nozzles are attached, are provided on the one hand, on a central disk 27, with respect to the axis 25, projecting from the plane of the plate and on the other hand, on a ring 28 concentric with the disc 27 and also protruding from the plane of the plate. Thus, as shown in FIG.

  regular and harmonious ejection ports 12.

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  1 Furthermore, the plate 20 also provides a circular opening 30 concentric with the cavity and closed by a cover 31 of corresponding shape, advantageously made of a translucent material, such as ground glass. Lighting means 33 of the low-voltage type

  represented in Figure 2 are then fixed by means of

  screw means or the like 34 to the plate 20 so as to diffuse the light towards said room through the translucent cover 31. These lighting means 33 are, for example, low-voltage spots and can be two in number, by being then arranged diametrically one of the other, or four, being then arranged in the vicinity

from each corner of the plate 20.

  In order to harmonize the aesthetics of the ceiling element, the outer and inner circular edges 36 of the opening 30 project from the plane of the plate 20 in the same way as

  disc 27 and crown 28 equipped with ejector nozzles

  tion. In this case, the translucent cover 31 rests on the

  edges 36 as shown in Figure 2.

  We thus obtain a ceiling element whose turned side

  to the local presents an attractive and aesthetic appearance.

  As regards FIGS. 4 and 5, they represent an alternative embodiment of the ceiling element 7 which is essentially characterized in that the lower face 1i of the cavity corresponding to the part 23 of the plate 7 has

  a polygonal shape, such as, for example, octagonal.

  The orifices 12 are then distributed around circles concentric with the orthogonal axis 25 (FIG. 5). In order to maintain the harmony of the octagonal face which projects from the plane of the plate, the openings 30 are arranged

  the same way, as shown in Figure 5.

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  Of course, different shapes could be envisaged for the apertures 30 and 23 of the plate 20, or even different combinations of shapes with each other, for example, a polygonal portion and a circular opening, without departing from the scope of the invention. invention. The shower room 40, illustrated in FIG. 6, is equipped with a ceiling element 7, as described above,

  but whose lighting means have not been represented.

  Without entering again into the structure of the ceiling element 7, it can be seen that the room 40 is provided with a plurality of inlet ducts 41, 42 and 43 coming, for example, from the same duct 44 connected to a mixer * not shown. It can be seen that the duct 41 is connected to the upper face 9 delimiting the cavity 8, whereas,

  the duct 42 is connected to a spray bar

  45 attached to one of the walls 46 of said room, and secondly, the conduit 43 is connected to a pipe 47 on the end of which is mounted a hose 48 carrying a shower head L9, the pipe 47 being fixed at a wall 50 of said room. Passages 51 are obviously provided in the plate 7 of the ceiling element to allow the mounting of its ancillary equipment, or conversely, the adaptation of a ceiling element to a shower room already provided with

such equipment.

  Thus, thanks to this pipe with several connecting ducts or multiple pipes, it is easy, without major work, for example to proceed to

  ancillary equipment connections.

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Claims (11)

  1 - Local shower, of the type comprising in particular at least one water inlet pipe (10) and bodies (5) for controlling the water supply, characterized in that it comprises at least one element ceiling (7) in which is provided at least one closed cavity (8) capable of being connected to said water inlet pipe, the lower face (11) delimiting said cavity having a plurality of orifices ( 12) intended for   ejecting water passing through said cavity.   2 - Ceiling element especially for shower room, characterized in that it comprises at least one closed cavity (8) capable of being connected to a water supply pipe, the lower face (11) delimiting said cavity, having a plurality of orifices (12) for   ejecting water passing through said cavity.   3 - Ceiling element according to claim 2, characterized in that it consists of a plate (20) and an open housing (21) reported with seal to said plate, said cavity (8) corresponding to the interior volume   delimited by said housing and said plate.   4 - Ceiling element according to claim 3, characterized in that said open housing (21) is attached to the top of the plate (20), the bottom (22) of said casing, corresponding to the upper face (9) of said cavity (8), being provided with a nozzle (24) for connecting the water inlet pipe, while the portion (23) of the plate (20) delimiting the lower face (11) of said cavity, is provided with said orifices (12) for ejecting water. 12 2630902   Ceiling element according to one of claims 2 to   4, characterized in that said closed cavity (8) is made symmetrically with respect to the orthogonal axis (25) to the plane of said element (7) and passing in its middle.   6 - Ceiling element according to one of claims 2 to   , characterized in that the lower face (11) of the cavity (8) provided with said water ejection orifices presents a circular shape.   7 - Ceiling element according to one of claims 2 to   , characterized in that the lower face (11) of the cavity (8) provided with said water ejection orifices presents a polygonal shape.   8 - Ceiling element according to one of claims 3 to   7, characterized in that the portion (23) of the plate (20) corresponding to the lower face (11) of the cavity and provided with said water ejection orifices protrudes from said plate.   9 - Ceiling element according to one of claims 2 to   8, characterized in that said water ejection orifices (12) respectively comprise ejection nozzles (26), said orifices being regularly distributed over said   lower face (11) of the cavity.   Ceiling element according to one of claims 2 to   9, - characterized in that it comprises at least one opening (30), external to said cavity (8) and closed by a cover (31) made of a material at least translucent, 13 2630902   1 low-voltage lighting means (33) being fixed to said element so as to diffuse the light towards said room at through said cover (31).   11 - Ceiling element according to claim 10, characterized in that said opening (30) has a   crown shape concentric with said cavity.   12 - ceiling element according to claim 10, characterized in that said opening (30) has a   polygonal shape concentric with said cavity.   13 - Room for shower of the type comprising at least one ceiling element (7) as defined under one of the claims 2 to 12,   characterized in that it comprises a plurality of water inlet ducts (41,42,43), one of which (41) is connected to said cavity (8) and whose other (42,43) are capable of being connected, on the upper side of said element, to equipment provided in said room, such as a spray boom (45), a hose-shower set (47,48,49), and the like, through passages   (51) formed in said ceiling element.