Patent Application
20210123224
The present invention relates to a Shower Drain Unclogging System.
There are many ways to unclog a drain. Most methods use tools like snakes and plungers or involve acids. However, snakes and plungers are messy and hard to operate. Shower drains are especially prone to clogging from hair which resists plunging and conventional methods and tools. There exists a need in the market for a method and system to unclog drains that is both neat and easy to operate.
A shower drain unclogging system includes a three way adapter designed to attach to a shower stub inlet. The disclosed system also includes a hose comprising a first end configured to attach to the hose outlet and a second end comprising an attachment for one of a high durometer handle fixture and an extension hose. The disclosed system additionally includes multiple high durometer handle fixtures comprising a drain unclogging spherical head and a toilet unclogging crescent bulbous head. The system of record further includes one of a three way valve in the three way adapter and a volume control valve in each of the high durometer handle fixtures. A method is disclosed for unclogging one of a drain and a toilet trap via a water flow from the three way adapter through the hose and through the one of a plurality of high durometer handle fixtures.
Other aspects and advantages of embodiments of the disclosure will become apparent from the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, illustrated by way of example of the principles of the disclosure.
Throughout the description, same and similar reference numbers may be used to identify same and similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
The present disclosure uses the water pressure from a shower or faucet to unclog drains. A typical shower head is removed and a 3 way adapter is attached to the shower stub. A hose is attached to the 3 way adapter and the other end is inserted into a drain. Water is run from the shower stub through the system to the drain to unclog it.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
While the forgoing examples are illustrative of the principles of the present disclosure in one or more particular applications, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous modifications in form, usage and details of implementation can be made without the exercise of inventive faculty, and without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention. Accordingly, it is not intended that the disclosure be limited, except as by the specification and claims set forth herein.
