Patent ID: 7134614
Filing Date: 2006-11-14
Classification: B05B,E03C

Abstract:
1. A hand-held sprayer for selectively providing one of a fine water particle mist, an intermittent shower, and a continuous shower, comprising: a casing comprising a grip at a lower end and a head at an upper end thereof, the casing including a frontwardly facing large-diameter cylindrical portion formed integrally at a center of the head, the casing including a flow passage therein; a flexible tube having a tip end attached to the grip portion of said casing; a pan including a pan fitted body fitted into a front opening of the cylindrical portion, the pan including pan water passing holes; a first seal for sealing the fitted body of the pan with the cylindrical portion; a first case having an inner bottom rotatably fitted into a front opening of said pan fitted body, the first case including a plurality of first case water passing holes that are selectively alignable with predetermined ones of the pan water passing holes; a second seal for sealing an outer peripheral surface of the pan fitted body and an inner peripheral surface of the first case; a second case having an inner bottom fitted into a front opening of the first case and a plurality of second case water passing holes; a third seal for sealing an outer peripheral surface of the first case and an inner peripheral surface of the second case; a third case having an inner bottom fitted into a front opening of the second case and a plurality of third case water passing holes, the third case having a plurality of water discharge grooves formed on a outer peripheral wall thereof for defining a shower water discharge path between the second case and the third case; a fourth seal for sealing portions of an outer peripheral surface of the second case and an inner peripheral surface of the third case; a center shaft extending from the cylindrical portion of the casing through the first, second and third cases; an intermittent spray device fitted into a front opening of the third case, the spray device having a plurality of water intake holes in a rear surface thereof and water discharge holes in a front surface thereof, the intermittent spray device including rotatable vanes located therein; and a switching portion secured to said first case and rotatable with respect to the head of said sprayer, wherein rotation of said switch portion rotates said first case so that various ones of said holes are positionable to provide one of fine water particles as a mist, continuous shower and intermittent shower.