Classifications

• • 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
  • B05B1/1609—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 lift valve

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• the invention relates to a shower jet disk with a jet disk body, which includes a fluid outlet area, which has one or more jet outlet openings, and to a shower head with a base body having a fluid inlet and a plurality of separate water supply paths, integrated in the main body switch assembly, the is arranged for manually operated, selective blocking or release of a fluid connection from the fluid inlet to the respective water guide path, formed on the base body control element receptacle for receiving a control element for the operation of the Umschalter- assembly and a mounted on the base body, the fluid outlet shower jet.
• Such shower spray discs and shower heads are used for example for sanitary showers, such as hand showers and overhead showers.
• shower heads of this type are variously known.
• the switch assembly and the separate water guide paths serve to allow the supplied fluid to emerge from the exit-side effervescent jet disc selectively in one of several possible jet patterns or beam characteristics, eg optionally as a large normal jet or as a harder massage jet with a smaller surface area.
• Such shower heads are disclosed, for example, in the patent US Pat. No.
• the invention is based on the technical problem of providing a shower jet disk and a shower head of the type mentioned above, which provide the basis for a more flexible use of a shower head body and a mountable shower jet disk, including the ability to body on a same shower head reason depending on the choice, to be able to mount different shower spray disks, in particular also for the realization of shower heads, in which the integrated switch unit remains inactive.
• the invention solves this problem by providing a shower jet disk with the features of claim 1 and a shower head with the features of claim 4.
• Advantageous developments of the invention are specified in the dependent claims.
• the effervescent jet disc according to the invention has a change-over switch cover outside its fluid outlet region provided with the jet outlet or openings.
• the switch cover is part of the disk body or rigidly connected thereto. It has on its inside a switch seal.
• the jet disk body is provided with an inner-side seal, which includes the change-over switch seal and a one-piece fluid outlet region sealing section.
• the switch cover forms a handle-side or fluid-supply-side extension of a part of the jet disk body which forms the fluid outlet region. This represents a structurally advantageous measure for embodiments in which the shower jet disk is used for a shower head, the switch assembly is integrated in accordance with a handle side or fluid supply side part of the shower head body.
• an effervescent head according to the invention By mounting the effervescent jet disc according to the invention on a suitable basic body, an effervescent head according to the invention can be provided.
• the baffle cover of the effervescent jet disk is then located in the control element receptacle of the main body and covers the switch assembly, which would otherwise, i. E. when making a shower head with active switch function, is covered by the control.
• the changeover unit remains in an inactive state in this case, which is why the operating element is not needed.
• the invention provides a shower head, wherein the switch assembly is designed as a changeover valve with an axially movable operating pin, which is movable from a functional position to a self-holding parking position in which the change-over valve maximizes the fluid connection to all water supply paths ,
• the switch assembly can be placed and held in an inactive condition by needing to move the operating pin to this parking position, in which it remains self-holding. Since the change-over valve maximally releases all water supply paths in this parking position of the operating pin, it is in a permanent inactive state in which it does not influence the fluid conduction from the fluid inlet via the water guide paths to the effervescent spray plate.
• the invention provides a showerhead equipped with a safety latch which secures against disassembly of the shower spray disk from the body. As a result, inadvertent release of the shower jet disk from the main body or unauthorized dismantling thereof can be prevented.
• the switch assembly as already mentioned above, integrated into a handle side or fluid supply side part of the body.
• the inactive state of the switch assembly includes that the stylus is in the park position or alternatively is simply omitted.
• the stylus In the park position, the stylus has the above-mentioned effect of keeping the switch assembly permanently in its inactive state. If the stylus is missing, the switch assembly can not be operated, which in turn can be used to keep the switch assembly permanently in an inactive state.
• the securing lock comprises a locking pin receptacle on the changeover cover and a locking pin which can be received dismantling in the locking pin receptacle and in an actuating pin receptacle of the switch assembly.
• the respective receptacle on the switch assembly can simultaneously receive the actuating pin and the locking pin, the actuating pin and locking pin being formed integrally by a common pin member or alternatively as two separate and e.g. can be realized in succession in the Betuschistshadage usable pin components.
• 1 is a plan view from below of a first spray jet disk with switch cover
• FIG. 2 is a bottom plan view of a shower equipped with the shower jet disk of FIG. 1;
• FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view along a line III-III of Fig. 2,
• FIG. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view along a line VV of Fig. 4, 6 is a bottom plan view of a second effervescent jet disc with switch cover,
• FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view of a third Effervescent disc with switch cover
• FIG. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view of the shower head of FIG. 4 and 5 without outer housing in a switch-home position
• FIG. 9 shows a detailed view of a changeover area of the shower head of FIG. 8 with the operating element pressed in, FIG.
• FIG. 10 is a view corresponding to FIG. 9 in a changeover parking position
• Fig. 1 1 is a view corresponding to FIG. 2 for a variant with safety lock.
• a shower jet disk 1 is shown in plan view from below, which is for example used for a sanitary shower and a jet disk body 2 having a substantially circular fluid outlet region 3.
• a plurality of jet outlet openings 4 are arranged distributed substantially uniformly.
• the jet outlet openings 4 are arranged along five concentric circular lines with different radii.
• the jet outlet openings 4 are all of the same design with a circular cross-section.
• a first part of the jet outlet openings 4 is located in a central region of the fluid outlet region 3 within a radius R1.
• a second part of the jet outlet openings 4 is located outside this radius R1 and within a relatively larger radius R2.
• a third, remaining part of the jet outlet openings is located outside the radius R2.
• the effervescent jet disk 1 has a changeover cover 5, which is located outside the circular fluid outlet region 3 and adjoins it in a side region as a lateral extension.
• the approximately circular fluid outlet region 3 and the subsequent thereto as a lateral extension switch cover 5 are integral parts of the jet disk body second 2 and 3 show the shower jet disk 1 mounted on a shower head 6 with a base body 7, which also encompasses an integrally molded shower handle 8.
• the gripping part 8 forms a hollow fluid supply channel 9, to which the direction of the shower head 6 is followed by a fluid inlet 9 of the main body 7.
• the base body 7 includes an outer housing part 7a and a cartridge part 7b accommodated and fixed therein and on the outside of which the jet disk 1 is attached.
• the cartridge insert 7b has a plurality of separate water guide paths 10a, 10b, 10c, with each of which one of the three above-mentioned groups of radially inner, radially middle and radially outer jet outlet openings 4 are in fluid communication.
• the shower can be used eg as a sanitary hand shower.
• a switch assembly 1 1 is integrated, which is designed as a switching valve in the example shown and can be used as needed, a fluid connection from the fluid inlet 9 to the various water supply paths 10a, 10b, 10c either lock or release.
• This switching function which is used for setting different jet exit images or jet exit characteristics of the fluid emerging from the jet outlet openings 4 as required, is known per se and therefore does not require any further explanation here. If this switching function is required and should be realized, an associated control element is provided in a control element receptacle 12, which is located on the underside of the main body 7 at the transition region of the shower head 6 to the handle 8.
• valve closing body 13 an axially movable stylus is coupled, which in turn acts on an axially and rotatably movable valve closing body 13.
• the switch function is not needed.
• the operating element and the axially movable operating pin are omitted, so that the changeover unit 1 1 remains in an inactive state.
• the operating element holder 12 is covered and sealed by the correspondingly shaped changeover switch cover 5 of the mounted jet disk 1, as can be seen in particular from FIG. 3.
• the jet disk 1 on the inside of their changeover cover 5 on a changeover seal 14 a is an integral part of a arranged on the inside of the jet disk 1 seal 14, which additionally includes a fluid outlet area sealing portion 14b for sealing the fluid outlet region 3 of the jet disk 1.
• the fluid outlet region sealing section 14b may, for example, extend annularly along a peripheral region of the fluid outlet region 3 and in inner zones thereof, for example for the mutual sealing of fluid-separated water outlet chambers which correspond to the different groups of jet outlet openings 4 and which exist between the jet disc 1 and the Cartridge insert 7b are formed.
• the changeover cover 5 of the jet disk 1 forms a flush-mounted connection of the shower head bottom to the underside of the shower handle 8 replacing the changeover control element.
• the changeover cover can manufactured separate component and be rigidly connected to the fluid outlet region 3 of the jet disk 1. In either case, any pressure exerted by a user on the switch cover 5, e.g. when gripping the shower, no operation of the switch assembly 1 1 result, which is thus reliably kept inactive.
• FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate a shower which corresponds to that of Figures 2 and 3, except that it has the switching function of the switch assembly 1 1 active and is not held inactive.
• identical reference numerals are used for identical and functionally equivalent elements, so that reference can be made to the above description of FIGS. 1 to 3 in this respect.
• a modified shower spray disk V is used, the jet disk body 2 having the provided with the jet outlet openings 4 fluid outlet area 3 without switch cover.
• the jet disk V has a recess or step 15 in order to make room for a control element 16, which is received in this case in the control element holder 12 of the shower head base body 7.
• the main body 7 and the switch assembly 1 1 integrated therein can be realized identical to those of the shower of FIGS. 2 and 3.
• the jet disk body 2 in this case a modified inside seal 14 ', which consists only of the seal 14b in the fluid outlet area without the switch seal portion 14a.
• FIGS. 1 to 5 make it clear that according to the invention a shower head basic body with integrated switch assembly by minor structural modifications and in particular the optional use of a jet disc with or without switch cover for the realization of a shower optionally with inactive or active switching function can be used.
• the shower head of FIGS. 4 and 5 additionally offers the possibility of moving the operating pin 17 from its functional position shown in FIG. 5 into a self-holding parking position in which the change-over valve 1 1 maximizes the fluid connection to all water-guiding paths 10a, 10b, 10c , Since this parking position is carried out self-holding, the push button 16 does not need to be pressed for this purpose.
• FIGS. 8 to 10 For further details regarding such a parking position, reference is made to the following explanations to FIGS. 8 to 10.
• shower jet disk according to the invention can be implemented in numerous different designs depending on requirements and application.
• 6 and 7 show two further possible designs of the jet disk 1 with switch cover 5.
• jet disk 1 of Fig. 6 are compared to that of Fig. 1 to 3 jet outlet openings 4 'of smaller diameter and provided in larger numbers in the circular fluid outlet region 3.
• the jet disk body 2 outside the changeover cover 5 is designed with a rather rounded square or rectangular outer contour instead of the more circular contour in the jet disks of FIGS. 1 to 6.
• FIGS. 8 to 10 illustrate the shower with active switching function of FIGS. 4 and 5 in different operating positions.
• the inner side of an upper part of the cartridge insert 7b defines and limits, together with the inside of a lower part 7c of the cartridge insert 7b, the various water-guiding paths.
• Fig. 8 shows the shower head with befindlichem in initial position, non-actuated push button 16.
• the valve closing body 13 which is designed as axially movable and rotatable valve disc is located itself with its disc part on an associated valve seat 19 and has openings which are in fluid communication with one of the water guide paths 10a, 10b, 10b and depending on the rotational position of the valve closing body 13 of this completely or partially covered or released.
• the valve closing body 13 has a suitable, e.g. dumbbell-shaped or semicircular contour.
• the pushbutton 16 is pressed in, as shown in FIG. 9.
• valve closing body 13 is pressed axially upwards.
• a suitable slotted guide 20a, 20b on a shaft part of the valve closing body 13 on the one hand and a surrounding part of the lower part 7c of the cartridge insert 7b on the other hand takes place with the axial movement of a rotational movement of the valve closing body 13 by a certain angle of rotation.
• the valve closing body 13 After releasing the pushbutton 16, the valve closing body 13 then returns to its valve seat 19 in the changed rotational position.
• the actuating pin 17 and with it the valve closing body 13 outside this actual functional movement range between the depressed position of Fig. 9 and the basic position of Fig. 8 can be spent in an even further axially advanced parking position, as shown in Fig. 10 .
• the slide guide means 20a, 20b are here designed so that the parking position is self-holding, ie the valve closing body 13 and its actuating pin 17 held by the slide guide 20a, 20b permanently in this parking position, regardless of the position of the push button 16, which then has no actuation function.
• the actuating pin 17 can be brought into the parking position, for example, that with the pushbutton 16 removed or not mounted by means of a small tool, such as a small screwdriver or the like, the actuating pin 17 is pushed axially until its lower end beyond a feedthrough opening 21, provided by the sealing plate 18. An elastic upper edge of this seal then folds radially inward slightly and seals the actuating pin 17 to the outside.
• valve closing body 13 In the parking position of FIG. 10, the valve closing body 13 is lifted off its maximum from its valve seat 19, so that it maximizes the fluid connection to all water supply paths due to the fully opened associated passage openings of the valve seat 19. If necessary, it can be provided to return the actuating pin 17 together with valve closing body 13 again from this parking position into the functional position by means of a corresponding tool.
• Fig. 1 1 illustrates a showerhead 6 'which corresponds to that of Figs. 1 to 3 with the modification that it is equipped with a safety lock.
• the safety lock comprises a locking pin receptacle 22 in a modified so far switch cover 5 'and in the locking pin receptacle 22, which is realized in the example shown as a through opening in the switch cover 5', engaging locking pin 23.
• the disk body 2 with the changeover cover 5 is opposite by twisting the base body 7 mounted on this, preferably realized as a bayonet connection.
• a bayonet connection Especially it can be a bayonet connection or similar compound, as described in the patent application DE 10 2013 224 053.8 of the applicant, to which reference is made.
• such a connection of the jet disk and the base body can be provided.
• the locking pin 23 is in an actuating pin recording of the switch cover 5 'hidden switch assembly 1 1.
• the locking pin 23 may simultaneously act as the associated valve actuating pin 17 or be arranged in the same axial extension.
• the locking pin 23 is then inserted into the actuating pin receptacle and pushed back until it has, for example, reached the above-mentioned actuating pin parking position.
• the jet disk body 2 can be placed on the base body 7 and mounted by twisting it.
• the locking pin receptacle 22 As soon as the locking pin receptacle 22 is aligned with the pushed-back locking pin 23 in this assembly rotational movement, it can engage in the locking pin receptacle 22 and thereby secure the blasting disc body 2 against turning back and consequently against dismantling from the main body 7.
• the locking pin 23 automatically snaps into the locking pin receptacle 22 as soon as it aligns with it.
• the locking pin 23 is held by a releasable retaining mechanism during the jet disk assembly in the pushed-back position and is preferably moved forward after assembly, using a special tool by releasing the retaining mechanism and thus moved into the locking pin receptacle 22 into it. The tool can engage the locking pin 23 through the locking pin receptacle 22.
• the invention provides an effervescent jet disk which allows sealed coverage of a diverter assembly integrated into a showerhead body when the jet disk is mounted on a respective showerhead. Furthermore, the invention provides a shower head in which the switch assembly is movable to a latched parking position in which it maximizes fluid communication with all existing separate water supply paths.
• the invention is applicable to both sanitary showers and any other showerheads in which there is a need to be able to use a showerhead with integrated diverter assembly in both active switching and inactivating switching modes ,

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