Bathroom shower set
A bathroom shower set, comprising a panel associated with a vertical sliding guide which is fixed to a wall of the intended space, the panel being adapted to delimit a portion of space that is adjacent to said wall and being capable of accommodating at least partially a flexible hose for conveying water from a connector that protrudes from said wall to the shower head, the panel having an opening that is adapted to allow the passage of said flexible hose and being further provided with a support for the removable resting of the end of the flexible hose that is connected to the handle of the shower head.
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There are conventional shower sets for bathrooms, known as slide bar sets, in which the head from which water exits is provided with means for connection to a vertical sliding guide, so as to allow the user to position the shower head at the height that he finds most appropriate by simply pushing it.
Water is fed to the shower head by means of a flexible hose, and the user generally can grip a handle that is jointly connected to the shower head in order to remove it from the sliding guide and handle it at will.
Shower sets of the described type comprised in the background art, however, suffer some drawbacks.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe aim of the present invention is to eliminate such drawbacks by providing a bathroom shower set, characterized in that it comprises a panel associated with a vertical sliding guide which is fixed to the wall of the intended space, the panel being adapted to delimit a portion of space that is adjacent to said wall and being capable of accommodating at least partially a flexible hose for conveying water from a connector that protrudes from said wall to the shower head, the panel having an opening that is adapted to allow the passage of said flexible hose and being further provided with a support for the removable resting of the end of the flexible hose that is connected to the handle of the shower head.
Further characteristics and advantages of the present invention will become better apparent from the description of two preferred but not exclusive embodiments of a bathroom shower set, illustrated by way of non-limiting example in the accompanying drawings, wherein:
With reference to
More precisely, the panel 1 has a profile 4 jointly connected thereto, and said profile constitutes the element for connection to the guide 2 with a male-female mating and is provided monolithically with a stiffening strip 4a.
The user can thus make the panel 1 slide along the guide 2 between the two extreme positions that are shown respectively in
The panel 1 is provided, at the upper edge, with a support 5 that allows the removable resting of an end 6a of a flexible hose 6 that conveys water from a connector 7, optionally provided with a faucet, which exits from the wall 3, up to a head 8 with a handle 8a of the shower set; the panel 1 is shaped so as to define a flat face 1a, designed to be arranged parallel to the wall 3, and two sides 1b, 1c that are extended towards said wall; while the side 1b skims the wall 3, the side 1c is extended to a distance from said wall such as to define an opening that allows the passage of the flexible hose 6.
A portion of space is thereby delimited being comprised between the wall 3 and the face 1a of the panel 1 and being capable of accommodating at least partially the flexible hose 6, as shown in
The method of association between the sliding panel 1 and the fixed guide 2 is shown in
In a position that substantially faces said locking means 11 a grip handle 12 is provided, which is applied to the face of the panel 1 that is directed towards the wall 3 and is designed to be concealed from sight, and can be gripped by the user with the left hand while he grips the means 11 with the right hand, thereby achieving in optimum conditions for providing the sliding of the panel 1 along the guide 2.
The panel 1 has a continuous flat face 1a, which is adapted to receive decorations of any kind; the embodiment of
The described invention is susceptible of numerous modifications and variations, all of which are within the scope of the appended claims; all the details may further be replaced with other technically equivalent elements.
The disclosures in Italian Patent Application No. MN2008A000006 from which this application claims priority are incorporated herein by reference.
Claims
1. A bathroom shower set, comprising a panel associated with a vertical sliding guide which is fixed to a wall of the intended space, the panel being adapted to delimit a portion of space that is adjacent to said wall and being capable of accommodating at least partially a flexible hose for conveying water from a connector that protrudes from said wall to the shower head, the panel having an opening that is adapted to allow the passage of said flexible hose and being further provided with a support for the removable resting of the end of the flexible hose that is connected to the handle of the shower head.
2. The shower set according to claim 1, wherein the support for resting the end of the flexible hose is fixed at the upper edge of the panel.
3. The shower set according to claim 1, wherein the panel comprises a flat face that is designed to be arranged parallel to the wall of the intended space and two sides that are extended toward said wall, one of said sides skimming the wall while the other side is extended to a distance from said wall such as to provide an opening that allows the passage of the flexible hose.
4. The shower set according to claim 1, wherein the panel has a continuous surface that is adapted to receive decorations.
5. The shower set according to claim 1, wherein the panel has a surface that comprises an opening provided with a transparent strip for protecting light-emitting bodies that are arranged behind.
6. The shower set according to claim 1, wherein the vertical sliding guide that is fixed to the wall of the intended space has such a length as to be always concealed from sight by the overlying panel.
7. The shower set according to claim 1, further comprising means for the removable locking of the panel in its sliding motion in contact with the guide that is fixed to the wall of the intended space.
8. The shower set according to claim 1, further comprising stroke limiting abutments for the sliding motion of the panel in contact with the guide that is fixed to the wall of the intended space.
9. The shower set according to claim 1, wherein the guide that is fixed to the wall of the intended space is provided with at least one disk that is pushed by a spring in contact with the surface of a profile that is jointly connected to the panel associated with said guide, so as to cause a sliding motion of said panel that is pushed by the user in calibrated friction conditions.
10. The shower set according to claim 1, further comprising a handle for grip by a user, which is applied to a face of the panel that is directed toward the wall.
Type: Application
Filed: Feb 26, 2009
Publication Date: Sep 10, 2009
Applicant:
Inventor: Orlando Bosio (Casaloldo)
Application Number: 12/379,628
International Classification: A47K 3/28 (20060101);