WATER OUTPUT DEVICE

Abstract

A water output device for kitchen use includes a body and a control member. The body includes an inlet end and an outlet end. The body has a first waterflow passage and a second waterflow passage therein. The control member is disposed on the body and is manipulable to respectively open or cut off the first waterflow passage and the second waterflow passage. The first water output member has a receiving opening and includes a blocking member disposed at the receiving opening. The blocking member has a plurality of outlet holes. A diameter of each of the outlet holes is smaller than or equal to 0.4 mm. In this way, the water output device could provide different forms of waterflow, and could further provide pressurized water jet by disposing the first water output member.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Technical Field

The present invention relates generally to a water output device, and more particularly to a water output device adapted for kitchen use.

Description of Related Art

It is known that a conventional water output device used for kitchen cleaning is usually merely a nozzle connected to a faucet, which can only provide a single water output function. Since the conventional water output device has a large water output area, the impact of the water jet is insufficient, so that it is hard to clean dead corners of the tableware, which not only wastes the time of washing the tableware, but also wastes water.

In recent years, shower nozzles that can increase the impact strength of the water jet have appeared on the market. When a user needs other water output functions, they can switch between different water output modes by replacing the nozzles. However, it is inconvenient for the user to frequently replace the nozzles. In all aspects, the conventional water output device still has room for improvements.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In view of the above, the primary objective of the present invention is to provide a water output device, which could provide different forms of waterflow and high-pressure water jet.

The present invention provides a water output device including a body and a control member, wherein the body includes an inlet end and an outlet end. An inside of the body has a first waterflow passage and a second waterflow passage. The inlet end has an inlet opening communicating with the first waterflow passage and the second waterflow passage. A first water output member and a second water output member are disposed at the outlet end. The first water output member communicates with the first waterflow passage. The second water output member communicates with the second waterflow passage. The first water output member and the second water output member are adapted to supply different forms of waterflow. The control member is disposed on the body, wherein the control member is manipulable to respectively open or cut off the first waterflow passage and the second waterflow passage. The first water output member has a receiving opening and includes a blocking member disposed at the receiving opening. The blocking member has a plurality of outlet holes. A diameter of each of the outlet holes is smaller than or equal to 0.4 mm.

With the aforementioned design, the control member could be manipulable to respectively open or cut off the first waterflow passage and the second waterflow passage, and the first water output member and the second water output member are adapted to respectively supply different forms of waterflow. In addition, with a structure that the diameter of each of the outlet holes is smaller than or equal to 0.4 mm, the first water output member could output a high-pressure water jet.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention will be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of some illustrative embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the water output device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the water output device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view along the A-A line in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view, showing water flows through the first waterflow passage;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view, showing water flows through the second waterflow passage;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view, showing water flows through the third waterflow passage;

FIG. 7A is an enlarged partial view of a marked region C in FIG. 3;

FIG. 7B is a sectional view along the D-D line in FIG. 2;

FIG. 8 is a sectional view, showing the blocking member of the water output device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is an exploded view of the water output device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view, showing the operation between the first fixing base and the connecting member when it is about to mount the first fixing base on the outlet end; and

FIG. 11 is a schematic view, showing the operation between the first fixing base and the connecting member when it is about to disassemble the first fixing base from the outlet end.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

A water output device 1 for kitchen cleaning according to an embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 1 to FIG. 11, wherein the water output device 1 includes a body 10, a first water output member 20, a second water output member 30, and a control member 40, and is disposed in a kitchen for use.

Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 6, the body 10 includes an inlet end 10a and an outlet end 10b and has a first waterflow passage P1 and a second waterflow passage P2 therein, wherein the inlet end 10a has an inlet opening 101 communicating with the first waterflow passage P1 and the second waterflow passage P2. The first water output member 20 and the second water output member 30 are disposed at the outlet end 10b, wherein the first water output member 20 communicates with the first waterflow passage P1, and the second water output member 30 communicates with the second waterflow passage P2. The control member 40 is disposed on the body 10 and is manipulable to respectively open or cut off the first waterflow passage P1 and the second waterflow passage P2, wherein the first water output member 20 and the second water output member 30 could respectively supply different forms of waterflow. In this way, referring to FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, by switching the control member 40, water could flow through the first waterflow passage P1 and output via the first water output member 20 or flow through the second waterflow passage P2 and output via the second water output member 30, so that the water output device 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention could switch different forms of waterflow without replacing nozzles.

Referring to FIG. 6, in the current embodiment, the body 10 further has a third waterflow passage P3 therein which communicates with the inlet opening 101, and a third water output member 50 communicating with the third waterflow passage P3 is disposed at the outlet end 10b, wherein the control member 40 is manipulable to respectively open or cut off the first waterflow passage P1, the second waterflow passage P2, and the third waterflow passage P3. The first water output member 20, the second water output member 30, and the third water output member 50 are adapted to respectively supply different forms of waterflow. In the current embodiment, the first water output member 20 could provide a powerful water jet, the second water output member 30 could provide a bubble-containing waterflow, and the third water output member 50 could provide a waterflow with a plurality of water jets. In other embodiments, the water output device could provide different forms of waterflow by disposing different forms of the second water output member or the third water output member. In the current embodiment, the water output device provides three forms of waterflow by the first water output member 20, the second water output member 30, and the third water output member 50 as an example. In practice, the water output device could simply provide with the first water output member and either the second water output member or the third water output member.

Referring to FIG. 7A, FIG. 7B, and FIG. 8, the first water output member 20 has a receiving opening 20a and includes a blocking member 22 disposed at the receiving opening 20a, wherein the blocking member 22 has a plurality of outlet holes 221, and a diameter of each of the outlet holes 221 is smaller than or equal to 0.4 mm. With a structure that a total area of the outlet holes 221 of the first water output member 20 is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the inlet opening 101, when water flows through the first waterflow passage P1 to the first water output member 20, the water output device 1 could output a powerful water jet. The first water output member 20 is detachably disposed at the outlet end 10b. In the current embodiment, the outlet holes 221 include a plurality of first outlet holes 221a and a plurality of second outlet holes 221b, wherein a diameter of each of the first outlet holes 221a is different from a diameter of each of the second outlet holes 221b. In the current embodiment, the diameter of each of the first outlet holes 221a is greater than the diameter of each of the second outlet holes 221b, and the first outlet holes 221a are disposed at an outer periphery of the blocking member 22 and surround the second outlet holes 221b. In other embodiments, the diameter of each of the first outlet holes 221a could be smaller than or equal to the diameter of each of the second outlet holes 221, and the first outlet holes 221a and the second outlet holes 221b could be arranged in other ways.

Referring to FIG. 3, FIG. 7A, and FIG. 7B, the first water output member 20 includes a first fixing base 24, wherein the first fixing base 24 has the receiving opening 20a, and has a blocking portion 24a therein. An inner peripheral wall of the first fixing base 24 has a protruding portion 241, wherein the blocking member 22 is disposed between the blocking portion 24a and the protruding portion 241 in an axial direction of the first water output member 20. The water output device 1 includes a sealing ring 60, and the first fixing base 24 has an outer annular groove 242, wherein the sealing ring 60 is disposed in the outer annular groove 242. The blocking member 22 has a curved portion 22a and an annular peripheral portion 22b surrounding the curved portion 22a, wherein the outlet holes 221 are disposed on the curved portion 22a, and the annular peripheral portion 22b abuts against the protruding portion 241. In this way, when it is about to mount the blocking member 22, the blocking member 22 could be inserted via the receiving opening 20a of the first fixing base 24 and be pushed toward an inside of the first fixing base 24, making the blocking member 22 be elastically deformed and pass though the protruding portion 241 and restore to its original state, so that the annular peripheral portion 22b abuts against the protruding portion 241 to firmly mount the blocking member 22 on the first fixing base 24.

It is worth mentioning that, referring to FIG. 7A, FIG. 7B, and FIG. 9, the body 10 has a receiving recess R1; the first water output member 20 includes a second fixing base 25, a spring 26, a connecting member 27; the first fixing base 24 includes a first fixing member 243 and a second fixing member 244; an outer wall of the first fixing member 243 has a recess 243a (as shown in FIG. 7B); a clasp member 244a is disposed on an inner wall of the second fixing member 244, wherein the first fixing member 243 passes through the second fixing member 244 to be disposed in the second fixing member 244, and is connected to the second fixing member 244 by engaging the recess 243a and the clasp member 244a. An inner wall of the receiving recess R1 has a positioning member 102 protruding therefrom, and an outer wall of the second fixing member 244 of the first fixing base 24 has a groove 244b corresponding to the positioning member 102, and an outer wall of the second fixing base 25 has a groove 25a corresponding to the positioning member 102 (as shown in FIG. 9), so that the first fixing base 24 and the second fixing base 25 could be easily positioned and disposed in the receiving recess R1 in a short time by using the positioning member 102 in conjunction with the groove 244b of the first fixing base 24 and the groove 25a of the second fixing base 25. In addition, referring to FIG. 7B, the receiving recess R1 of the body 10 has a hole 103, and the second fixing base 25 has two stuck members 251 opposite to each other, wherein the stuck members 251 of the second fixing base 25 could pass through the hole 103 to be stuck in the hole 103. In the current embodiment, an end of each of the stuck members 251 has a protrusion protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the corresponding stuck member 251, wherein when the stuck members 251 pass through the hole 103, the protrusion of each of the stuck members 251 is stuck around an outer periphery of the hole 103, thereby firmly providing the second fixing base 25 in the receiving recess R1 of the body 10.

Referring to FIG. 7A, FIG. 7B, and FIG. 9, an end of the connecting member 27 is connected to the second fixing base 25, and another end of the connecting member 27 is detachably connected to the first fixing base 24; the second fixing base 25 has a protruding portion 252 therein; the spring 26 fits around the protruding portion 252, and two ends of the spring 26 respectively abut against the second fixing base 25 and the second fixing member 244 of the first fixing base 24; the outer wall of the second fixing member 244 has a guiding rail 244c, wherein the connecting member 27 is movably disposed in the guiding rail 244c.

Referring to FIG. 10 and FIG. 11, the guiding rail 244c has a bending portion 244e, wherein when the first fixing base 24 is about to be mounted at the outlet end 10b of the body 10, the first fixing base 24 is pushed toward an inside of the body 10 to compress the spring 26 to move the connecting member 27 to the bending portion 244e as shown in FIG. 10, and then stop pushing the first fixing base 24. At this time, the spring 26 abuts against the first fixing base 24 to make the connecting member 27 get stuck in the bending portion 244e of the guiding rail 244c, thereby mounting the first fixing base 240 at the outlet end 10b of the body 10. On the contrary, when the first fixing base 24 is about to be taken out from the outlet end 10b of the body 10, the first fixing base 24 is pushed toward the inside of the body 10 to compress the spring 26 to move the connecting member 27 from the bending portion 244e to a position out of the guiding rail 244c as shown in FIG. 11, and then stop pushing the first fixing base 24. At this time, the spring 26 abuts against the first fixing base 24 to make the first fixing base 24 pop up from the outlet end 10b of the body 10. In this way, the first fixing base 24 could be disassembled or installed without using other tools such as a wrench. In addition to the function of facilitating disassembly and assembly, the first fixing base 24 could not easily loosen from the body 10.

With the aforementioned design, the water output device 1 of the present invention could provide different forms of waterflow, and could further provide a pressurized water jet by disposing the first water output member 20. In addition, by detachably mounting the first water output member 20 on the body 10, the first water output member 20 could be easily disassembled or installed, which facilitates subsequent maintenance or cleaning of internal components.

It must be pointed out that the embodiments described above are only some preferred embodiments of the present invention. All equivalent structures which employ the concepts disclosed in this specification and the appended claims should fall within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A water output device, comprising:

a body comprising an inlet end and an outlet end, wherein an inside of the body has a first waterflow passage and a second waterflow passage; the inlet end has an inlet opening communicating with the first waterflow passage and the second waterflow passage; a first water output member and a second water output member are disposed at the outlet end; the first water output member communicates with the first waterflow passage; the second water output member communicates with the second waterflow passage; the first water output member and the second water output member are adapted to supply different forms of waterflow;

a control member disposed on the body, wherein the control member is manipulable to respectively open or cut off the first waterflow passage and the second waterflow passage;

wherein the first water output member has a receiving opening and comprises a blocking member disposed at the receiving opening; the blocking member has a plurality of outlet holes; a diameter of each of the outlet holes is smaller than or equal to 0.4 mm.

2. The water output device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first water output member is detachably disposed at the outlet end.

3. The water output device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body has a receiving recess; the first water output member comprises a first fixing base disposed in the receiving recess; the first fixing base has the receiving opening; the blocking member is disposed at the receiving opening of the first fixing base.

4. The water output device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the first water output member comprises a connecting member and a second fixing base; an inner wall of the receiving recess has a positioning member; an outer wall of the first fixing base and an outer wall of the second fixing base respectively have a groove corresponding to the positioning member; the first fixing base and the second fixing base are disposed in the receiving recess respectively by using the positioning member in conjunction with the groove of the first fixing base and the groove of the second fixing base; an end of the connecting member is connected to the second fixing base, and another end of the connecting member is detachably connected to the first fixing base.

5. The water output device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first fixing base comprises a first fixing member and a second fixing member; an outer wall of the first fixing member has a recess; a clasp member is disposed on an inner wall of the second fixing member; the first fixing member passes through the second fixing member to be disposed in the second fixing member, and is connected to the second fixing member by engaging the recess and the clasp member; the second fixing member has the groove of the first fixing base.

6. The water output device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first water output member comprises a spring; an inside of the second fixing base has a protruding portion; the spring fits around the protruding portion, and two ends of the spring respectively abut against the second fixing base and the second fixing member of the first fixing base; an outer wall of the second fixing member has a guiding rail; the connecting member is movably disposed in the guiding rail.

7. The water output device as claimed in claim 3, wherein an inside of the first fixing base has a blocking portion; an inner peripheral wall of the first fixing base has a protruding portion; the blocking member is disposed between the blocking portion and the protruding portion.

8. The water output device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the blocking member has a curved portion and an annular peripheral portion surrounding the curved portion; the outlet holes are disposed on the curved portion; the annular peripheral portion abuts against the protruding portion.

9. The water output device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outlet holes comprise a plurality of first outlet holes and a plurality of second outlet holes; a diameter of each of the first outlet holes is different from a diameter of each of the second outlet holes.

10. The water output device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the diameter of each of the first outlet holes is greater than the diameter of each of the second outlet holes; the first outlet holes are disposed at an outer periphery of the blocking member and surround the second outlet holes.