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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2002
Eckhard Gransow, Fröndenberg, DE;
Hans Lobermeier, Menden, DE;
Bernd Bischoff, Hemer, DE;
Hans-Peter Strelow, Freiburg, DE;
Sascha Körfer, Hemer, DE;
Holger Ellerbrock, Unna, DE;
Andreas Kirchhoff, Wickede, DE;
Thomas Raadts, Fröndenberg, DE;
Joachim Störk, Kippenheim, DE;
Hans-Jürgen Linde, Coburg, DE;
Uwe Neumann, Bamberg, DE;
Andreas Rehklau, Coburg, DE;
Friedrich Grohe AG & Co. KG, Hemer, DE;
Abstract
A shower has an elongated C-section holder tube having a laterally open full-length slot open at both ends, a bracket securing the holder tube to the wall, and a shower head. The head has a guide part snugly engageable in and slidable along the holder tube, a narrow neck projecting laterally from the guide part out of the tube through the slot thereof, and a spray part provided with spray holes and mounted on the neck outside the tube. A hose has an inner end connected to the guide part and communicating therethrough with the spray part and an outer end connectable to a source of water under pressure for spraying water from the holes of the spray part. The head is slidable along the holder tube with the hose extending from the guide part inside the holder tube and out of the open end of the holder tube.