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US 8,517,287 · App. 12/138,699 · Granted Aug 27, 2013

Water saving shower nozzle

Inventor: Huasong Zhou (Fujian, CN)
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Patent No.
US 8,517,287
App. No.
12/138,699
Granted
Aug 27, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention pertains to a water reducing shower nozzle assembly having a main body with a cavity defined therein, and the cavity includes a fan-shaped cavity and a funnel-shaped cavity. A plurality of jets are synchronously driven by a quasi-blade device inside the fan-shaped cavity, and the funnel-shaped cavity comprises an outlet disposed thereon. The jets, being driven by the quasi-blade device allow less water into the outlet to save water; due to jets rotating periodically and the specific configuration of the funnel-shaped cavity, water can be formed in dense water drops and sprayed out from the outlet in multiple directions, thereby maintaining the same water power as conventional showering nozzles without a water reducer with synchronously rotated jets.

Claims (25)

1. A water reducing shower nozzle assembly, comprising

a main body, and

a cavity with a top and a bottom, defined inside said main body, including

i) a fan-shaped cavity, formed on the top thereof, and

ii) a funnel-shaped cavity, formed on the bottom thereof, including an outlet defined at a distal end thereof for outputting water slantingly from said nozzle assembly,

wherein said fan-shaped cavity includes

i.a) a quasi-blade device, driven to rotate periodically by incoming water of said nozzle assembly, further including

a water-reducer coordinating with said quasi-blade for reducing water flow out of said nozzle assembly,

i.b) an inlet, disposed nearby said quasi-blade device, and

i.c) a plurality of jets, disposed under said quasi-blade device and facing said funnel-shaped cavity for synchronously rotated with said quasi-blade device,

wherein said water reducer includes:

a plurality of ribs, disposed under said quasi-blade device, for blocking water flow from one or more said jets.

2. A water reducing shower nozzle assembly, comprising

a main body, and

a cavity with a top and a bottom, defined inside said main body, including

i) a fan-shaped cavity, formed on the top thereof, and

ii) a funnel-shaped cavity, formed on the bottom thereof, including an outlet defined at a distal end thereof for outputting water slantingly from said nozzle assembly,

wherein said fan-shaped cavity includes

i.a) a quasi-blade device, driven to rotate periodically by incoming water of said nozzle assembly, further including

a water-reducer coordinating with said quasi-blade for reducing water flow out of said nozzle assembly,

i.b) an inlet, disposed nearby said quasi-blade device, and

i.c) a plurality of jets, disposed under said quasi-blade device and facing said funnel-shaped cavity for synchronously rotated with said quasi-blade device,

wherein a ring-shaped cavity is disposed between said fan-shaped cavity and said funnel-shaped cavity, and said jets are mounted above said ring-shaped cavity, and

said water-reducer includes

a plurality of ribs, disposed under said quasi-blade device, for blocking water flow from one or more said jets.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 26, 2017
From: ZHOU, HUASONG
To: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 043702/0526 →
Continuity (1)
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