GB2554965A - Shower head - Google Patents
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- GB2554965A GB2554965A GB1707374.3A GB201707374A GB2554965A GB 2554965 A GB2554965 A GB 2554965A GB 201707374 A GB201707374 A GB 201707374A GB 2554965 A GB2554965 A GB 2554965A
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- shower head
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- XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N water Substances O XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 claims abstract description 14
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- 235000003956 Luffa Nutrition 0.000 description 1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
- A61H7/00—Devices for suction-kneading massage; Devices for massaging the skin by rubbing or brushing not otherwise provided for
- A61H7/002—Devices for suction-kneading massage; Devices for massaging the skin by rubbing or brushing not otherwise provided for by rubbing or brushing
- A61H7/004—Devices for suction-kneading massage; Devices for massaging the skin by rubbing or brushing not otherwise provided for by rubbing or brushing power-driven, e.g. electrical
- A61H7/005—Devices for suction-kneading massage; Devices for massaging the skin by rubbing or brushing not otherwise provided for by rubbing or brushing power-driven, e.g. electrical hand-held
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A46—BRUSHWARE
- A46B—BRUSHES
- A46B11/00—Brushes with reservoir or other means for applying substances, e.g. paints, pastes, water
- A46B11/06—Brushes with reservoir or other means for applying substances, e.g. paints, pastes, water connected to supply pipe or to other external supply means
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- A46—BRUSHWARE
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- A46B5/0008—Brushes with two or more heads on the same end of a handle not intended for simultaneous use
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- A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
- A61H23/00—Percussion or vibration massage, e.g. using supersonic vibration; Suction-vibration massage; Massage with moving diaphragms
- A61H23/02—Percussion or vibration massage, e.g. using supersonic vibration; Suction-vibration massage; Massage with moving diaphragms with electric or magnetic drive
- A61H23/0254—Percussion or vibration massage, e.g. using supersonic vibration; Suction-vibration massage; Massage with moving diaphragms with electric or magnetic drive with rotary motor
- A61H23/0263—Percussion or vibration massage, e.g. using supersonic vibration; Suction-vibration massage; Massage with moving diaphragms with electric or magnetic drive with rotary motor using rotating unbalanced masses
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
- A61H2201/00—Characteristics of apparatus not provided for in the preceding codes
- A61H2201/10—Characteristics of apparatus not provided for in the preceding codes with further special therapeutic means, e.g. electrotherapy, magneto therapy or radiation therapy, chromo therapy, infrared or ultraviolet therapy
- A61H2201/105—Characteristics of apparatus not provided for in the preceding codes with further special therapeutic means, e.g. electrotherapy, magneto therapy or radiation therapy, chromo therapy, infrared or ultraviolet therapy with means for delivering media, e.g. drugs or cosmetics
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
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- A61H2201/1215—Rotary drive
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- A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
- A61H2201/00—Characteristics of apparatus not provided for in the preceding codes
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- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
- A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
- A61H33/60—Components specifically designed for the therapeutic baths of groups A61H33/00
- A61H33/601—Inlet to the bath
- A61H33/6021—Nozzles
- A61H33/6036—Hand-held connected to a supply hose
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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
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Abstract
A handheld shower head 10 is disclosed that comprises a housing 12 having a chamber surrounding a socket and connectible to a water supply, nozzles 18 communicating with the chamber for enabling water to be ejected from a region of the housing surrounding the socket, and a skin treatment device 20 located within the socket. The skin treatment device comprises a treatment element, such as sponge or pad with bristles, and an electric motor for vibrating, rotating or oscillating the element. The skin treatment device 20 is a self-contained unit that is releasably secured with the socket 15 and is capable of operation both when mounted within the socket of the shower head and when separated from the shower head.
Description
(56) Documents Cited:
CN 204276185 U CN 201346171 Y CN 002612462 Y US 20120159702 A1
A61H7/00 (2006.01)
CN 203155412 U CN 104384033 A CN 002297160 Y (71) Applicant(s):
EcoCamel Limited
233, Woodhouse Road, Lodnon, N12 9BD, United Kingdom (58) Field of Search:
INT CLA47K, A61H, B05B Other: EPODOC, WPI (72) Inventor(s):
Dinka Cinnamon (74) Agent and/or Address for Service:
Harrison IP Limited
Ebor House, Millfield Lane, Nether Poppleton, YORK, YO26 6QY, United Kingdom (54) Title of the Invention: Shower head
Abstract Title: Shower head with skin treatment device (57) A handheld shower head 10 is disclosed that comprises a housing 12 having a chamber surrounding a socket and connectible to a water supply, nozzles 18 communicating with the chamber for enabling water to be ejected from a region of the housing surrounding the socket, and a skin treatment device 20 located within the socket. The skin treatment device comprises a treatment element, such as sponge or pad with bristles, and an electric motor for vibrating, rotating or oscillating the element. The skin treatment device 20 is a self-contained unit that is releasably secured with the socket 15 and is capable of operation both when mounted within the socket of the shower head and when separated from the shower head.
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Shower head
Field
The present invention relates to a hand held shower head.
Summary
According to the present invention, there is provided a handheld shower head comprising a housing having a chamber surrounding a socket and connectible to a water supply, nozzles communicating with the chamber for enabling water to be ejected from a region of the housing surrounding the socket, and a skin treatment device located within the socket, wherein the skin treatment device is releasably secured with the socket and comprises a treatment element, and an electric motor for vibrating, rotating or oscillating the element, the skin treatment device being a self-contained unit capable of operation both when mounted within the socket of the shower head and when separated from the shower head.
In some embodiments, the housing may be formed as a ring surrounding a through opening, the socket being formed by the opening in the housing. In such an embodiment, the skin treatment device may be accessed from both sides of the shower head, i.e. the side on which the nozzles are disposed and from which water is ejected as well as the opposite side facing away from the water jets. Such a construction allows controls of the skin treatment device to be accessed from the dry side of the shower head when it is mounted in the socket.
The invention thus combines a shower head with a skin treatment device so that water can be applied to the skin at the same time as it is being treated, while still permitting the skin treatment device to be used independently of the shower head.
The skin treatment element may, in some embodiments, be a scrubbing element such as a sponge or a pumice stone. A sponge
-2may for example be used to apply a soap or an exfoliating gel while a pumice stone may be used to remove hard skin.
As an alternative, the skin treatment element may be a massaging element to massage the body or the scalp.
The treatment element may in some embodiments comprise bristles that protrude from the side of the housing on which the nozzles are disposed so that the skin may be lubricated or washed while being massaged or scrubbed.
Optionally, the treatment device may additionally have bristles protruding from the opposite side of the housing to permit some parts of the body to be treated while dry, even while the treatment device is mounted in the socket. In this case, the bristles protruding from the opposite sides of the housing may differ from one another in their geometry and/or their composition.
In embodiments wherein treatment device comprises bristles, they may be inclined tangentially relative to an axis of rotational symmetry of the bristles, so as to have a firmer action if rotated in one direction than in the opposite direction.
In some embodiments, the motor may be controllable to vary the frequency and/or amplitude of vibration of the treatment element.
Brief description of the drawings.
The invention will now be described further, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figures 1 to 3 are perspective views from below, from above, and from one side, respectively, of a handheld shower head of an embodiment of the invention, and
-3 Figures 4 and 5 are a perspective view and a section, respectively, of a massaging device that forms part of the shower head shown in Figure 1 to 3.
Detailed description of the drawings
Figures 1 to 3 show a handheld shower head 10 formed in two parts. The first part is a toroidal housing 12 connected by a hollow handle 14 to a flexible hose 16 and formed with holes, or nozzles, 18 from which water can be ejected. In use, the water flows from the hose 16 and the handle 14 and through an annular interior chamber of the housing 12 to the nozzles 18. The second part of the shower head 10 is a skin treatment device 20 that is releasably engaged within a socket formed by a central through opening defined by the toroidal housing 12. It should be stressed that the terms toroidal and annular are being used herein loosely to describe a doughnut shape. These terms should not to be taken to mean or imply that the shower head needs to be circular nor that the water chamber needs to be of circular cross section.
The shower head 10 is intended to be used with interchangeable motorised skin treatment devices and the one shown in Figure 1 to 3, and in more detail in Figures 4 and 5, is a massaging device 20. Other skin treatment devices, not illustrated in the drawings, may comprise a scrubbing element, such as one of various types of natural or artificial sponges (open-cell, closed-cell), a luffa (alternatively spelled loufah), or a pumice stone. Such a scrubbing element would be mounted on a motorised device designed to be releasably plugged into the socket formed by the central opening of the housing 12. Though a scrubbing device need have no moving components, it is more effective if it is motor driven, as is the case for an abrasive wheel intended to remove hard skin from the heel of the user.
The massaging device 20 shown in more detail in Figures 4 and 5, is a waterproof self-contained unit that is retained
-4within the central opening of the annular housing 12 by means of three resilient clips 22. The clips 22 are resiliently biased radially outwards and the device 20 can be coupled to and removed from the housing 12 by radially compressing the three clips 22.
The massaging device 20 has two sets of bristles 24 and 26, the bristles 24 projecting from the side of the shower head from which water is ejected and the bristles 26 being intended for dry use. These two sets of bristles may be designed differently so that, for example, one set may be suited to scalp massage and the other set to body massage.
The casing of the massage device 20 has an internal battery compartment 28 to receive dry battery cells, a motor 30 and an on-off switch 32. The waterproof casing includes a removable sealed cap 34 to allow access to the battery compartment 28 and a flexible diaphragm 36 to allow actuation of the on/off switch 32 from outside the casing.
The motor 30 which is preferably of variable speed and can be designed to cause oscillation of varying frequency and amplitude of the bristles 24 or 26 relative to the casing of the device. Alternatively, it may simply drive an eccentric weight to causing the entire device to vibrate. The bristles 24 or 26 may be inclined in the direction of vibration so as to have a firm action in one direction than the other, thereby causing a cyclic change in the pressure applied to the skin.
In some embodiments, the skin treatment device 20 may incorporate a solution or gel dispenser. In the case of a massaging device, the solution or gel may be a lubricant or a balm and it may be dispensed through the bristles, while in the case of a scrubbing device it may for example be a soap.
While in the illustrate embodiment, the socket for receiving the skin treatment device is a through opening that is open at both ends, it may alternatively be formed as a
-5 blind bore in only the side of the shower head from which water is ejected. The advantage of an open ended bore is that it allows the skin treatment device to have two ends that can be used either wet or dry, as in the case of the illustrated massaging device. Furthermore, the controls for the treatment device can be located on the dry side of the shower head. If the skin treatment device is a scrubbing device, then it may have a sponge at one end and a pumice stone at the other. As a further possibility, the skin treatment device may comprise a massaging device at one end and a scrubbing device at the other .
Claims (11)
1. A handheld shower head comprising a housing having a chamber surrounding a socket and connectible to a water supply, nozzles communicating with the chamber for enabling water to be ejected from a region of the housing surrounding the socket, and a skin treatment device located within the socket, wherein the skin treatment device is releasably secured with the socket and comprises a treatment element, and an electric motor for vibrating, rotating or oscillating the element, the skin treatment device being a self-contained unit capable of operation both when mounted within the socket of the shower head and when separated from the shower head.
2. A shower head as claimed in claim 1, wherein the housing is formed as a ring surrounding a through opening, the socket being formed by the opening in the housing.
3. A shower head as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the skin treatment is a scrubbing element, such as a sponge or a pumice stone.
4. A shower head as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the skin treatment element is a massaging element for massaging the body or the scalp.
5. A shower head as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the treatment element comprise bristles that protrude from the side of the housing on which the nozzles are disposed.
6. A shower head as claimed in claim 5, wherein the treatment device additionally has bristles protruding from the opposite side of the housing.
7. A shower head as claimed in claim 6, wherein the bristles protruding from the opposite sides of the housing differ from one another in their geometry and/or their composition.
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8. A shower head as claimed in any of claims 1 to 7, wherein treatment device comprises bristles that are inclined tangentially relative to an axis of rotational symmetry of the
5 bristles, so as to have a firmer action if rotated in one direction than in the opposite direction.
9. A shower head as claimed in any of claims 1 to 8, wherein the motor is controllable to vary the frequency and/or
10. A shower head as claimed in any one of claims 1 to
9, wherein the massaging device is formed as waterproof unit.
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11. A shower head as claimed in any one of claims 1 to
10, wherein the skin treatment device incorporates a solution or gel dispenser.
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| GBGB1617394.0A GB201617394D0 (en) | 2016-10-13 | 2016-10-13 | Shower head |
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| EP3738574A1 (en) * | 2019-05-15 | 2020-11-18 | Lifetrons Switzerland Group Limited | Body cleaning device |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN2297160Y (en) * | 1996-12-17 | 1998-11-18 | 王殿国 | Electric massage shower head |
| CN2612462Y (en) * | 2003-03-10 | 2004-04-21 | 杨杰 | Charge pattern multifunctional bathe sprinkler head |
| CN201346171Y (en) * | 2009-01-20 | 2009-11-18 | 高森木 | Bathing brush |
| US20120159702A1 (en) * | 2010-12-28 | 2012-06-28 | Wu Teng-Chen | Shower head |
| CN203155412U (en) * | 2013-01-18 | 2013-08-28 | 铭毅精密有限公司 | Shower head |
| CN104384033A (en) * | 2014-11-07 | 2015-03-04 | 厦门市得尔美卫浴有限公司 | Massage shower head |
| CN204276185U (en) * | 2014-11-07 | 2015-04-22 | 厦门市得尔美卫浴有限公司 | Massaging shower |
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| CN2297160Y (en) * | 1996-12-17 | 1998-11-18 | 王殿国 | Electric massage shower head |
| CN2612462Y (en) * | 2003-03-10 | 2004-04-21 | 杨杰 | Charge pattern multifunctional bathe sprinkler head |
| CN201346171Y (en) * | 2009-01-20 | 2009-11-18 | 高森木 | Bathing brush |
| US20120159702A1 (en) * | 2010-12-28 | 2012-06-28 | Wu Teng-Chen | Shower head |
| CN203155412U (en) * | 2013-01-18 | 2013-08-28 | 铭毅精密有限公司 | Shower head |
| CN104384033A (en) * | 2014-11-07 | 2015-03-04 | 厦门市得尔美卫浴有限公司 | Massage shower head |
| CN204276185U (en) * | 2014-11-07 | 2015-04-22 | 厦门市得尔美卫浴有限公司 | Massaging shower |
Cited By (1)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP3738574A1 (en) * | 2019-05-15 | 2020-11-18 | Lifetrons Switzerland Group Limited | Body cleaning device |
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