Patent ID: 8640980

Claim:
A showerhead comprising: (i) a housing having an inlet and an outlet; (ii) a ball joint at the inlet of the housing adapted to be connected to a source of water; (iii) a spacer located in the housing for channeling the water from the ball joint towards the outlet; (iv) a flow control disc within the housing between the spacer and the outlet, the flow control disc having a plurality of apertures and a corresponding plurality of disc chambers surrounding respective apertures; and (v) an outlet cap removably retained in the housing outlet and having a plurality of swirl nozzle chambers corresponding to the plurality of disc chambers of the flow control disc, with each swirl chamber being fed by an aperture of a respective flow control disc, and each swirl chamber comprising a plurality of nozzle chambers, including a central nozzle chamber having no exit nozzle and outer nozzle chambers having exit channels; wherein the spray flowing from each aperture toward the outlet cap passes into a respective disc chamber and then passes into a corresponding swirl chamber from where it exits the showerhead via the exit channel in the outer nozzle chambers, and wherein the swirl chamber is configured such that the water travels in a swirling motion within each of the outer nozzle chambers before exiting the showerhead.