Fluid sprinkling – spraying – and diffusing – With signals – indicators – recorders – meters or changeable...
Patent
1992-12-09
1994-05-31
Merritt, Karen B.
Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing
With signals, indicators, recorders, meters or changeable...
239381, 239447, 239449, 239600, B05B 108, B05B 118
Patent
active
053162161
ABSTRACT:
A showerhead is either wall mounted or provided with a handle connected through a flexible hose to an incoming water outlet. The showerhead has a turbine which may cause the delivery of pulses of circumferentially distributed groups of pulses of water so as to provide either fast or slow massage action. Also included is a pause mode in which flow is reduced without complete shutoff and a center spray mode which provides a concentrated spray pattern. Other modes possible are a needle spray, a combination pulse and needle spray, a combination needle spray with a body spray, just a body spray, and an oval shape spray pattern. Various water paths are defined from a flow selector through the unit to different ones of front-facing orifices as defined for the different modes. Selection is achieved by a combination of a flow director and a control plate. User access for mode selection is by way of an external circumferential control ring operatively coupled to the control plate through a control arm. A component is removable by the user to enable easy cleaning of an array of the outlet orifices.
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Cammack Michael A.
Koliha Michael W.
Smith David W.
Drake Hugh H.
Merritt Karen B.
Teledyne Industries Inc.
Teledyne Water Pik
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