Patent ID: 7959088

Claim:
A spray head for use in at least one of a shower head, an industrial spray head and an agricultural spray head comprising a plurality of groups of nozzles, wherein each of said groups of nozzles comprises at least two nozzles that are suitable for issuing jets of fluid from a surface of the spray head and are dimensioned and oriented so that fluid exiting the at least two nozzles under pressure collides, interacts substantially unimpeded by surrounding structures and breaks into droplets, wherein each nozzle is formed at least in part by an aperture through a faceplate, wherein entrances and exits of the nozzles in at least selected ones of said nozzle groups are offset relative to each other so that fluid issues from the at least selected nozzle groups at an angle of between approximately 6 and 8 degrees to an imaginary line at a nozzle group normal to the surface of the spray head, and wherein at least one selected nozzle group is configured so that fluid exiting the at least two nozzles of the selected group under pressure collides with between 20% and 80% crossover.