Mounting bracket for hand shower

US5265833A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Friedrich Grohe AG · DE

Inventors

• Bruno Heimann · Lennestadt, DE
• Detlef Hochstein · Hemer, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 7, 1992
• Grant date: Nov 30, 1993
• Expiry date: Jul 7, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C11/103
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A mounting bracket for a hand shower having a support stem has a support adapted to be stationarily fixed, a holder formed with a forked seat shaped to receive the hand-shower stem, and interengaging formations on the holder and support for pivoting of the holder on the support about a normally horizontal axis while retaining the holder and support against relative axial movement. An array of radially extending ridges formed on the support, surrounding the axis, and projecting toward the holder engage with complementary ridges formed on a flange of a retaining element rotationally coupled to the holder. A locking bolt axially fixed in the support axially presses the retaining-element ridges against the support ridges so that the holder can be pivoted about the axis on the support with elastic deformation of the flange.