Patent ID: 8746596

Claim:
A manual spray head having a coupling for connection with a flexible hose line, wherein the coupling has a ball-and-socket joint; a joint head of a holding element has a sphere-like outer contour in a form of a sphere segment; and a ring groove provided on an outer circumference of the holding element or on an inner circumference of a first joint part, relative to one another, is disposed at least approximately in a region of a equator or a greatest outer circumference of the sphere-like outer contour of the joint head provided on the holding element or on the first joint part; the connection of the manual spray head and the hose line comprises a screw-type coupling; an external or internal thread on the manual spray head is detachably connectable with an internal or external thread on a hose connection of the hose line; the hose connection has the ball-and-socket joint; said ball-and-socket joint includes the first joint part and a second joint part, which are connected with one another and have mutually connected fluid conduits; one of said joint parts carries a hose stem, with the internal or external thread being provided on the other joint part; the first joint part is swivelably held by a universal-ball-joint shaped or substantially spherical front end area thereof, between a form-adapted socket on the second joint part on one side, and the joint head on the holding element is provided in the inside cavity of the first joint part, on the other side; a connecting shaft of the holding element penetrates a through-opening of the first joint part, and acts upon the second joint part; and the holding element mutually connects the fluid conduits of the first and second joint parts.