Friedrich Grohe Aktiengesellschaft

Hans-Joachim Rapp

Bruno Heimann

A shower head has a housing having an end wall provided with a plurality of sets of spray nozzles, a partition element defining in the housing a pressurizable inlet chamber and formed offset from the axis with an axially throughgoing outlet hole, and a valve element rotatable in the housing on the partition about the axis, overlying the outlet hole, and formed offset from the axis with a plurality of axially throughgoing apertures radially equispaced from the axis and angularly spaced thereabout, selectively alignable with the partition hole, and each associated with a respective set of the nozzles. The housing also is formed with respective passages connecting the apertures with the respective sets of nozzles. One of the elements is provided with a restriction formation for progressive restriction of the outlet hole from a fully open to fully closed condition on rotation of the valve element through a predetermined angular stroke.

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Hagen, Germany

Hans-Joachim Rapp