Abstract:
An easy-to-assemble shower head having two variations of water discharge is characterized in that water is selectively discharged via 3 paired discharge pores on an intermittent discharge cap in a volume variable manner for effecting massaging purpose due to the use of an intermittent discharge wheel or is sprinkled at a wide angle via multiple ditches defined on a water dispensing ring member and the intermittent discharge cap as long as an adjusting member is selectivley rotated.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention relates to an easy-to-assemble shower head with two discharge variations. The shower head is equipped with an adjusting member which can be rotated to vary the path of discharge of water whereby water can be sprinkled at a wide angle or is jetted with its volume variable out of 3 paired outlet pores, effecting a massaging purpose. The intermittent variation of volume of discharged water results from an intermittent discharge wheel roatable due to water impact. The wheel is provided with a stop plate which attributes to the volume variation in turn when the wheel is made to rotate by the impact of water. 
     A conventional shower head having the same effects as the present invention is generally designed to have a plurality of components which are structured in a complex and difficult manner and are time and labor consuming when assembled together, making the production cost high and less competitive in markets. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     Therefore, the primary object of the present invention is to provide an easy-to-assemble shower head having two discharge variations, i.e., a common sprinkling form and an intermittent discharge form having massaging effect. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     FIG. 1 is a perspective diagram showing the exploded components of the present invention; 
     FIG. 1A is a diagram showing the intermittent discharge cap from the other side thereof; 
     FIG. 1B is a diagram showing the limiting board from the other side thereof; 
     FIG. 2 is a perspective diagram showing the assembled shower head of the present invention; 
     FIG. 3 is a sectional diagram showing the operation mode of the present invention; 
     FIG. 4 is a sectional diagram showing another operation mode thereof; 
     FIG. 5 is a perspective diagram showing the adjusting member of the present invention. 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
     Referring to FIG. 1, an easy-to-assemble shower head with two discharge variations of the present invention is mainly comprised of a shower head embodiment 10; a discharge cap 20; an adjusting member 30; a 3-sided water dispensing ring member 40; an intermittent discharge cap 50; a limiting board 60; an intermittent discharge wheel 70 and a ring hoop 80. 
     The shower head embodiment 10 has a hollow handle terminating in an enlarged water discharge head 11 which is provided with a sealing groove 12 and a retaining groove 13 on the periphery thereof, as shown in FIGS. 1, 3. The hollow handle terminates in a tubular outlet 14. 
     An O-shaped seal ring 16 is housed in the peripheral sealing groove 12 of the shower head embodiment 10. The discharge cap 20 is integrally produced in a cylindrical form with one end opened and the other closed, and has an inner diameter slightly larger than the tubular outlet 14 so as to permit the cap 20 to be tightly attached to the tubular outlet 14 of the shower head embodiment 10 in assembly. 
     The discharge cap 20 has two round holes 22 disposed on the wall at the closed end thereof and has a retaining recess 21 at the peripheral edge of the opened end thereof. The retaining recess 21 is engaged with a limiting protrusion 15 defined on the tubular outlet 14 when the cap 20 is mounted onto the tubular outlet 14 so as to stop the cap 20 from rotation. 
     The adjusting member 30 is integrally formed in a short cylindrical shape with a plurality of serially spaced gripping grooves 31 defined on the peripheral wall thereof. The adjusting member 30 has a slightly axially tapered end portion with a retaining flange 33 defined at the front edge thereof, as shown in FIG. 4. Moreover, the adjusting member 30 has a short central tubular partition wall 35 reinforced in place by a plurality of evenly spaced supporting ribs 34. The tubular partition wall 35 has one closed end wall, on which a pair of outlet holes 37 are defined, at one terminal and is left opened at the other so as to permit water to flow either inside the partition wall 35 or outside thereof selectively in operation. 
     At the center of the closed end wall of the tubular partition wall 35 is disposed an innerly threaded tubular post 36 with the two outlet holes 37 symmetrically disposed by the post 36. The outlet holes 37 can be located in registry or out of registry with the round holes 22 of the discharge cap 20. Each outlet hole 37 is further provided with a receiving groove 38, as shown in FIG. 4 at one end thereof for accommodation of a small O-shaped sealing ring 39. 
     The water dispensing ring member 40 is three sided with one side left opened and has an outer peripheral wall 42 and an inner peripheral wall 41. On the outer wall 42 are disposed a plurality of evenly spaced axially oriented discharge ditches 43 for distribution of water. 
     The intermittent discharge cap 50 has a short axially extended structure with an axial post 51 having inner threads projected from the rear side of a front wall 56 of the discharge cap 50. On the front wall 56 are there 3 pairs of symmtrically disposed intermittent discharge pores 52 through which water can be discharged. 
     A plurality of axially oriented, evenly spaced discharge ditches 54 are disposed on an axially tapered outer periphery 55 defined at the front portion of a peripheral wall 53 of the intermittent discharge cap 50. 
     The limiting board 60 for effecting intermittent discharge of water has a central hole 61 for engagement of itself with the central post 51 of the intermittent discharge cap 50 in assembly. The central hole 61 has a journalled flange 62 on one side of the limiting board 60 so as to keep the limiting board 60 and the intermittent discharge cap 50 a distance apart. The limiting board 60 has an axially extended peripheral wall 63 divided by a plurality of evenly spaced discharge recesses 64. 
     The intermittent discharge wheel 70 has a central tubular sleeve 71 onto which are mounted evenly 8 tangentially extended blades 72 and two of the blades 72 are conntected to each other by a stop plate 73. 
     A ring hoop 80 has a longitudinal width and has a diameter of such that the ring can be just fit in abutment against the divided wall of the limiting board 60. 
     In assembly, the discharge cap 20 is first attached to the tubular outlet 14 of the shower head embodiment 10. Then the ring hoop 80 is housed in the intermittent discharge cap 50. The tubular sleeve 71 of the intermittent discharge wheel 70 is engaged with the axial post 51 of the cap 50, afterwards, the limiting board 60 is also inserted into the cap 50 and is positioned in abutment against the ring hoop 80 end to end with the discharge wheel 70 confined inside the ring hoop 80 and the limiting board 60. The above assembly as a whole is fitted into the water dispensing ring member 40. The inner peripheral wall 41 is slightly tapered in the axial direction in just fit conformance :to the axially tapered outer periphery 55 of the intermittent discharge cap 50, as shown in FIGS. 3, 4, so as to tightly retain the cap 50 and the ring member 40 together. 
     Then the ring member 40 and the intermittent discharge cap 50 are integrally engaged with the adjusting member 30. The peripheral wall 53 of the discharge cap 50 is fitly confined in the tubular partition wall 35 of the adjusting member 30 and the innerly threaded post 36 of the adjusting member 30 is positioned in alignment with the post 51 of the intermittent discharge cap 50 and goes through the central hole 61 of the limiting board 60 so as to permit a screw 90, as shown in FIG. 2, to lock the assemblies together integrally. Finally the O-shaped sealing ring 16 is placed in the groove 12 of the shower head embodiment 10 and the assembled adjusting member 30 is snapped into engagement with the shower head embodiment 10 by way of the retaining groove 13 of the shower head embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 3, 4, to complete the assembly of the shower head of the present invention. 
     Referring to FIG. 3, when the adjusting member 30 is rotated in such a manner that the two outlet holes 37 thereof come out of registry with the two round holes 22 of the discharge cap 20, water is then led outside the tubular partition wall 35 and discharged via the multiple ditches 43 of the adjusting member 40 and the multiple ditches 55 defined on the outer periphery 55 of the discharge cap 50, as shown in FIG. 3, in a sprinkling manner. 
     Referring further to FIG. 4, when the adjusting member 30 is rotated in such a manner that the two outlet holes 37 come in registry with the two round holes 22 of the discharge cap 20, water is led into the tubular partition wall 35 and flows via the multiple discharge recesses 64 on the axially extended peripheral wall 63 of the limiting board 60 and forces the intermittent discharge wheel 70 to spin, water is further discharged via the 3 paired discharge pores 52. The stop plate 73 disposed between two of the wheel blades 72 will be rotated in turn to vary the volume of discharged water via the paired discharge pores 52 intermittently, making the jetted water vary in volume so as to produce a strong and a weak status in turn for effecting massaging purpose.