Swivel shower having a fluid pressure driven swivel body

US10751746B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Hansgrohe SE · DE

Inventors

• Gerd Blessing · Meckenbeuren, DE
• Daniel Philipp Dieterle · Wolfach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 2018
• Grant date: Aug 25, 2020
• Expiry date: Aug 4, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B05B1/302
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Swivel shower including a base body, a swivel body including a shower outlet and held on the base body for swivel movement about a swivel axis between a first swivel body end position, constituting a rest position, and a second swivel body end position, constituting an operating position, a shower fluid inlet for supplying a shower fluid, and a swivel drive for driven swiveling of the swivel body, wherein the swivel drive includes a slide piston capable of being pressurized by a fluid pressure of the supplied shower fluid, which piston is arranged for translational movement between a first piston end position, corresponding with the first swivel body end position, and a second piston end position, corresponding with the second swivel body end position. Illustratively, the slide piston is arranged with a translation directional component in parallel to the swivel axis, and/or the swivel drive includes a transmission element in the form of a slotted guide mechanism between the slide piston and the swivel body, wherein the transmission element transmits the translational movement of the slide piston into a swivel movement of the swivel body, and/or the shower outlet in the rest positi…