Patent ID: 6663022
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: B05B

Abstract:
A spring loaded one-piece trigger lever guard for a palm operable trigger lever of a garden hose nozzle, which prevents accidental discharge of water from a garden hose nozzle, if it falls to the ground or hits another object, thereby protecting the lever from accidental operation from side and back impact while affording access to the user's hand for normal unencumbered operation, said trigger guard comprising:a frame having a geometric shaped object extending atop said palm operable trigger lever of said garden hose nozzle in at least one plane which intersects a predetermined plane of pivot of said palm operable trigger lever; said frame being a spring loaded one-piece frame member; said geometric shape object extending atop said palm operable trigger lever of said garden hose nozzle in at least one plane which intersects a predetermined plane of pivot of said palm operable trigger lever; said frame being mounted by spring loading action to a nozzle spout of said garden hose nozzle; and, said frame being mounted to said said garden hose nozzle such that said geometrically shaped object is positioned at an acute angle to an axis of a hose pipe portion of said nozzle.