JP2002364037A - Shower head lifting and lowering supporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shower head lifting and lowering supporting device capable of easily changing a height position of a shower head by one hand to promote its handling efficiency and preventing the accident or the trouble caused by the careless falling of the shower head. SOLUTION: A lever member 3 is mounted to the side of a body 1 slidably mounted to a slide bar 10 in a movable manner, and a spring member energizing to the direction pushing out the front end side of the lever member 3 is provided to the inside of the body 1. By energizing force of the spring member, a contact section provided to the rear end side of the lever member 3 is pushed against the surface of the slide bar 10, and the body 1 holding the shower head 7 can not be moved along the slide bar 10.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a shower head elevating and lowering support device which is mounted on a slide bar mounted on a wall surface of a bathroom so as to be vertically movable and supports a shower head at a desired height position.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a shower head elevating support device of this type, there has been one disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-11915.

[0003] This shower head elevating and lowering supporting device is shown in FIG.
As shown in the exploded perspective view of FIG.
A main body 20 having a substantially horizontal cylindrical shape provided with
A hook member 21 provided on one side of the hook member 21 and provided with a hanging support hole 21a with a part of the periphery cut away;
Is a hollow, eyebolt-shaped fixture 22 having a hole 22b in the head 22d, a slide bush 23 inserted into the center hole 22c of the fixture 22, a packing 24 attached to the tip of the slide bush 23, And a handle 25 screwed to the screw portion 22a of the fixture 22.

Here, the insertion hole 20 of the main body 20 is used.
a has an inner diameter substantially equal to the outer diameter of the slide bar 30, and the eye 22 b of the fixture 22 is
It is set slightly larger than the outside diameter of.

[0005] Then, the head 22d of the fixture 22 is
0, the slide bar 30 is inserted so as to pass through the insertion hole 20a and the eye hole 22b.
By fixing both ends of the “0” to the wall surface W of the bathroom, the shower head 31 is mounted at a predetermined height position of the slide bar 30 as shown in FIG.

In this shower head elevating and lowering support device, when the handle 25 screwed to the screw portion 22a of the fixture 22 is tightened, the slide bush 23 inserted into the center hole 22c of the fixture 22 is brought into contact with the inner surface of the handle 25. The fixture 22 is moved in a direction in which the fixing tool 22 is pulled out toward the handle 25 side, whereby the slide bar 30 is connected to the inner end face on the tip side of the eye hole 22b and the packing 24 at the tip of the slide bush 23. And is fixedly held between them.

If it is desired to change the height of the shower head 31, the handle 25 is turned in the opposite direction to the above, and the slide bush 23 pressed by the inner end face of the handle 25 moves away from the slide bar 30. , And the force in the pulling direction acting on the fixture 22 is also lost, so that the above-described holding state is released. Therefore, the main body 2 through which the slide bar 30 is inserted
0 can be freely moved along this slide bar 30, and if it is moved in this way and the handle 25 is tightened at a desired position, it is fixed and held at that position in the same manner as described above. Things.

[0008]

In the above-described conventional shower head elevating and lowering supporting device, the fixing and releasing of the device from the slide bar is performed by turning a handle provided on the side of the main body. It is difficult to release and raise / lower the main unit with one hand.Especially during bathing, the hands are often wet or soap or shampoo is adhered, making this operation even more difficult. There was a problem that it was inferior.

Further, since the slide bar has to be inserted through the eye hole of the fixture and the insertion hole of the main body, it cannot be retrofitted to the slide bar installed in the bathroom. There was also a problem that this slide bar had to be removed from the bathroom wall.

An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the above-mentioned conventional shower head lifting and lowering support device.

[0011]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 of the present invention slides a shower head elevating support device on a slide bar attached to a wall surface of a bathroom. A main body which is attached to the main body, a hook which is attached to the main body and detachably supports a shower head, a lever member which is swingably attached to a side surface of the main body, and a lever which is provided in the main body and rotationally biases the lever member. When the lever member is urged by the spring member, the inner surface thereof comes into pressure contact with the surface of the slide bar to hold the main body immovably with respect to the slide bar. By being pushed in against the urging force, the inner surface is separated from the surface of the slide bar, and the main body can be moved along the slide bar.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the configuration of the first aspect of the present invention, the main body is limited to be divided into right and left parts so that the main body can be assembled with the slide bar interposed therebetween. .

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on illustrated embodiments.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a shower head elevating support device of the present invention. As shown in the drawing, this shower head elevating and lowering support device is attached to a slide bar 10 provided in a bathroom and detachably mounts a shower head 7 on a hook 2 having a hook support hole 2a. I try to support it.

Here, in the shower head elevating and lowering support device of the present invention, the main body 1 attached to the slide bar 10 is moved right and left (up and down in FIG. 4) as shown in FIG.
, Which are connected by screws 6 and assembled. On the front side (left side in FIG. 4) of the main body 1, a hook 2 having a hook hole 2a is attached so as to be rotatable up and down by a predetermined range. The hooking support hole 2a has a downwardly contracted shape, and is opened to the outside by a cutout groove 2b so that the front end can be inserted with the shower hose 8.

Further, a rectangular opening 1a is provided on one side surface (the right side in the figure) of the main body 1, and the lever member 3 is swung about a pivot point 5 so as to close the opening 1a. Mounted movably.

The lever member 3 is provided with a curved contact portion 3a inside the rear (right side in FIG. 4) of the pivot point 5 so as to face the outer peripheral surface of the slide bar 10. Inside the front (left side in FIG. 4), the spring receiving portion 3
b is provided.

A spring member 4 such as a coil spring is provided inside the main body 1 inside the spring receiving portion 3b, and the distal end side (the left end side in FIG. 4) of the lever member 3 is It is urged in the direction to protrude. Therefore, the contact part 3a provided on the other side of the pivot point 5 of the lever member 3 is pressed against the slide bar 10 side,
By pressing against the surface, the main body 1 is prevented from sliding down along the slide bar 10.

FIGS. 2 and 3 are a front view and a side view showing a state in which the shower head elevating and lowering support device of the present invention is fixedly held in the middle of the slide bar 10 so as not to fall.

The shower head lifting and lowering support device of the present invention comprises:
It has the above configuration.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 11 denotes a base attached to upper and lower ends of the slide bar 10;
Denotes a screw for fixing the base 11 to the wall surface W of the bathroom, and 13 denotes a cap for closing a screw hole 11a provided in the base 11.

As described above, the shower hook elevating and lowering support device of the present invention having the above-described structure always includes the spring member 4.
The lever member 3 is pushed, and the contact portion 3a is
0 is in contact with the surface of the slide bar 1
The shower head 7 that cannot be slid along 0 and is hung on the hook 2 is held at that position.

When the user wants to change the position of the shower head 7 such as when washing hair, the user grips the main body 1 so as to push the distal end side of the lever member 3 so that the lever member 3 resists the urging force of the spring member 4. The main body 1 swings, and the contact portion 3a provided on the rear end side is separated from the surface of the slide bar 10 and the locked state is released, so that the main body 1 can be easily moved along the slide bar 10. . Thus, the main body 1
Is moved to a desired height position and then released, the lever member 3 urged by the spring member 4 returns to its original state, and the contact portion 3a comes into pressure contact with the surface of the slide bar 10, so that The main body 1 is held immovable at that position. Therefore, the shower head 7 supported by the main body 1 can be used at that position.

As described above, the shower hook lifting and lowering support device of the present invention is used.

In the illustrated embodiment, the main body 1 is divided into right and left parts to be easily attached to and detached from the slide bar 10, and the main body 1 is assembled to the slide bar 10 in advance. When the main body 1 is provided in a detached state, the main body 1 does not necessarily have to be configured to be disassembled, and may be integrally formed so that the slide bar can be inserted.

Also, an example is shown in which the lever member 3 is also attached to the right side surface of the main body 1. This is intended to make it easy for a right-handed person to operate with one hand, and for a left-handed person or other necessary person. The lever member 3 may be attached to the other side surface (left side surface) of the main body 1 in accordance with the above.

[0027]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the fixed holding of the shower head along the slide bar is released only by grasping the lever member together with the main body. It can be moved to any height position, and if you take your hand off the main body at that position, the lever member returns to its original shape and is fixedly held with the slide bar, so that you can operate it with one hand, Extremely done. Also, if you release your hand from the main body, the lever member will return to its original state,
Since the shower head is automatically fixed and held at that position, an unexpected accident caused by accidental dropping can be prevented.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the main body is divided into right and left parts so as to be assembled with the slide bar interposed therebetween, the shower head elevating and lowering support device is retrofitted to the slide bar fixed to the wall surface of the bathroom. It can be attached to an existing slide bar, and its installation workability is improved. Further, since it is not necessary to remove the slide bar from the wall surface at the time of repair or replacement, the workability is good, and there is an effect that the work can be easily performed even by a specialist.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a shower head elevating support device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the shower head elevating support device.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the shower head elevating support device.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a conventional example.

FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view of a main part of FIG.

[Description of Signs] 1 Main body 1a Opening 2 Hook 2a Hanging support hole 2b Notch groove 3 Lever member 3a Contact part 3b Spring receiving part 4 Spring member 5 Pivot support point 6 Screw 7 Shower head 8 Shower hose 10 Slide bar

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Yoshiyuki Saeki 1-2-1 Shiginohigashi, Joto-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka F-term (reference) 2D060 BA01 BF08

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A main body slidably mounted on a slide bar mounted on a wall surface of a bathroom, a hook mounted on the main body and detachably supporting a shower head, and swingably mounted on a side surface of the main body. A lever member, and a spring member that is provided inside the main body and biases the lever member to rotate. The lever member is biased by the spring member,
The inner surface is pressed against the surface of the slide bar, the main body is held immovably with respect to the slide bar, and is pushed in against the urging force of the spring member, so that the inner surface is separated from the surface of the slide bar, A shower head elevating support device, wherein the main body is movable along a slide bar. 2. The shower head elevating and lowering support device according to claim 1, wherein the main body is divided into right and left parts so that the main body can be assembled with the slide bar interposed therebetween.