Fluid sprinkling – spraying – and diffusing – With ground or vertical surface sustained support means
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-03
2001-05-15
Douglas, Lisa Ann (Department: 3752)
Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing
With ground or vertical surface sustained support means
C239S280000, C239S697000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06230985
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a handle structure for a long handled sprinkler which is made up of an elongated tube, a rubber ring retainer and a sprinkling head. At the bottom end of the elongated tube is disposed a control switch and a switch knob is disposed on the outer surface of the control switch with a retaining space formed between the control switch and the switch knob. At the lower portion of the elongated tube is attached a slip-proof grab which is made of flexible rubber. The rubber ring retainer disposed at the top end the rubber grab is provided with a smoothly tapered surface of which are disposed a plurality of radially extended ribs. The ring retainer having a central hole is attached to the elongated sprinkler whereby the long handled sprinkler can be firmly displayed on a rack having a top layer and a lower layer on that are disposed aligned round holes for allowing a plurality of sprinklers to be retained firmly in place and in neat order for display in an appealing way and allowing people to hold the sprinklers hand with ease and comfort for a long time.
Referring to
FIG. 1
, a conventional handle structure for a long hand-held sprinkler
10
has a sprinkling tube
11
at the bottom of which is equipped with a control switch
12
. A switch knob
121
is secured to the outer surface of the control switch
12
with a locking space
13
defined between the control switch
12
and the switch knob
121
. A long slip-proof rubber grab
14
is provided with a plurality of spaced recesses for easy holding purpose. To the top end of the sprinkling tube
11
is fixed a sprinkler head
15
having multiple type discharging bores. At marketing places, the long handled sprinklers are placed on display racks
20
that are equipped with a top layer
21
and lower layer
22
. On the top layer
21
are disposed a plurality of orderly arranged round through holes
211
defined thereon. The lower layer
22
is provided with a plurality of oval shaped retaining cavities
221
that are lined in alignment with the respective round through holes
211
of the top layer
21
. Each retaining cavity
221
is provided with a dripping hole
224
at the bottom face thereof and an opening
222
is disposed at one end portion of each oval shaped cavity
221
. A positioning plate
223
is disposed next to the opening
222
so that a long handled sprinkler
10
can be retained in place by the through holes
211
and the retaining cavities
223
of the display rack
20
.
To firmly hold such a conventional long handled sprinkler
10
by hand, as shown in
FIG. 2
, the hand of the used grasps the slip-proof rubber grab
14
so as to extend the sprinkler
10
for watering potted plants placed or hanged at a high position.
When long handled sprinklers
10
are to be displayed on a display rack at marketing places, each sprinkler
10
is guided through one round through hole
211
and one aligned oval cavity
221
with the locking space
13
defined between the control switch
12
and the switch knob
121
engaged with the positioning plate
223
and the switch knob
121
housed in the opening
222
. In such a manner, multiple long handled sprinklers
10
can be displayed on the display rack
21
.
Such a prior long handled sprinkler has the following disadvantages in practical use:
1. It must be held with force when the sprinkler is raised high to water potted plants hanged at a high position.
2. The sprinklers
10
are displayed on the display rack in a chaotic order as a result of the sprinklers
10
being not able to be positioned in a vertical manner.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, the primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved handle structure which has a flexible rubber ring retainer. The ring retainer is mounted to the top end of a slip-proof rubber grab with ease so as to permit the sprinkler to be held by the hand of the user in an easy and comfortable manner.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved handle structure for a long handled sprinkler which is equipped with a flexible rubber ring retainer which permits the handle to be firmly retained in place and in neat order on a display rack. The display rack are provided a top plate and a bottom plate on each of which has a plurality of round through holes that are in linear alignment with each other so as to permit the elongated handle to be positioned therethrough for display.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3236455 (1966-02-01), Lewis et al.
patent: 4057148 (1977-11-01), Meyer et al.
patent: 6132684 (2000-10-01), Marino
Bacon & Thomas PLLC
Douglas Lisa Ann
Yuan Mei Corp.
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