Patent Application
20210262208
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The disclosure relates to shower devices and more particularly pertains to a new shower device for facilitating a pair of people to bathe in one shower without sharing a shower head.
The prior art relates to shower devices. The prior art discloses a multiple head shower rod that is integrated into a pre-existing water supply pipe. The prior art discloses a variety of multiple head shower rods that have a fluid supply hose that can be fluidly coupled to an existing shower head in a shower. The prior art also discloses a multiple head shower rod and a divider for dividing a shower into a pair of showers. In no instance does the prior art disclose a multiple head shower rod that includes a shut off valve for blocking fluid flow to one of the shower heads.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a rod that has a first end and a second end. The rod is elongated between the first end and the second end to be extended across a shower fixture and the rod is hollow. A bumper is coupled to the first end of the rod to abut a respective wall of the shower fixture. A plunger is movably coupled to the second end of the rod. The plunger is biased into an extended position to compress against a respective wall of the shower. An input hose is fluidly attachable to the rod to transfer fluid into the rod. The fluid source may be an existing shower head in the shower and the fluid may be water. A pair of shower heads is each fluidly attachable to the rod to spray the fluid onto two people for showering.
A shut off valve is coupled to the rod such that the shut off valve is in fluid communication with the interior of the rod. The shut off valve is positioned between the first output and the second output on the rod. The shut off valve is positionable in a closed condition to restrict the fluid from flowing to the second output. Conversely, the shut off valve is positionable in an open condition to facilitate the fluid to flow to the second output. The shut off valve includes a knob that is rotatably positioned on the rod to be manipulated by a user.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A bumper 30 is coupled to the first end 14 of the rod 12 to abut a respective wall 32 of the shower fixture 18. The bumper 30 is comprised of a resiliently compressible material to frictionally engage the respective wall 32. A plunger 34 is movably coupled to the second end 16 of the rod 12 and the plunger 34 is biased into an extended position to compress against a respective wall 32 of the shower. The plunger 34 is slidably positioned in the second end 16 of the rod 12 and the plunger 34 has a distal end 36 with respect to the second end 16. As is most clearly shown in
A bumper 38 is coupled to the distal end 36 of the plunger 34 to abut the respective wall 32. The bumper 38 on the plunger 34 is comprised of a resiliently compressible material to frictionally engage the respective wall 32. A biasing member 40 is positioned within the rod 12 and the biasing member 40 engages the plunger 34 for biasing the distal end 36 of the plunger 34 outwardly from the second end 16 of the rod 12.
An input hose 42 is fluidly attachable to the input 20 and the input hose 42 is fluidly attachable to a fluid source 44 to transfer fluid into the rod 12. The fluid source 44 may comprise an existing shower head in the shower and the fluid may be water. A pair of shower heads 46 is provided and each of the shower heads 46 has an inlet 48 and an outlet 50. The inlet 48 of each of the shower heads 46 threadably engages a respective one of the first output 22 or the second output 24 on the rod 12. In this way each of the shower heads 46 receives the fluid from the fluid hose thereby facilitating a pair of users to simultaneously bathe in the shower fixture 18.
A shut off valve 52 is coupled to the rod 12 such that the shut off valve 52 is in fluid communication with the interior of the rod 12. The shut off valve 52 is positioned between the first output 22 and the second output 24 on the rod 12. The shut off valve 52 is positionable in a closed condition to restrict the fluid from flowing to the second output 24. Conversely, the shut off valve 52 is positionable in an open condition to facilitate the fluid to flow to the second output 24. The shut off valve 52 includes a knob 54 that is rotatably positioned on the rod 12 to manipulate the shut off valve 52 between the open condition and the closed condition.
In use, the rod 12 is positioned at a selected location in the shower having the rod 12 being horizontally oriented and extending between the wall 32s of the shower fixture 18. The plunger 34 compresses against the respective wall 32 to retain the rod 12 in position. The input hose 42 is fluidly coupled to the water source and each of the shower heads 46 is fluidly coupled to the respective first output 22 and second output 24. Thus, two people can bathe at the same time in the shower without having to share a shower head.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
