CN214864490U

CN214864490U - Shower structure

Info

Publication number: CN214864490U
Application number: CN202120118588.6U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王雪冬; 张江城; 李维如; 陈艺辉
Original assignee: Xiamen Lota International Co Ltd
Current assignee: Xiamen Lota International Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-01-15
Filing date: 2021-01-15
Publication date: 2021-11-26
Anticipated expiration: 2031-01-15

Abstract

The utility model discloses a shower structure, wherein a driving piece moves to drive a lower gear to rotate in a forward direction so as to drive an upper gear and a water dividing piece to rotate so as to switch water paths, the driving piece pushes against the upper gear through the lower gear in the process of recovering to an initial position so as to enable the upper gear to move upwards, a distance is reserved between the upper gear and the lower gear, the lower gear can rotate in the circumferential direction relative to the upper gear, and the upper gear is kept immovable in the circumferential direction; when the driving piece returns to the initial position, the upper gear moves downwards under the action of the pressing spring until the upper gear and the lower gear return to the meshed and matched state, so that the next switching is carried out. That is, the driving member can be restored to the initial state after each switching, the upper gear and the water dividing member are kept in the switched state, and the water outlet functions switch water out in turn. The switching structure does not need to perform reset operation through the bending of the ratchets, can prolong the service life of the water diversion switching mechanism and further improve the reliability.

Description

Shower structure

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a gondola water faucet structure.

Background

The shower head is a common shower device, wherein the shower head with the switching function is more popular in the market, and the shower head can switch different water outlet modes and water outlet positions to achieve different functions.

At present, the shower head with the switching function has the main switching principle that the aim of switching the water outlet of the shower head is achieved through a ball pen type switching mechanism. However, this switching mechanism does not bounce when pushed down with a dead center, and this drawback cannot be predicted or improved.

Or the driving assembly of the manual control mechanism drives the outer ratchet seat to rotate in the forward direction, the outer ratchet seat rotating in the forward direction can drive the inner ratchet seat to rotate together through the ratchet abutted to the tooth groove, the water diversion piece is configured on the inner ratchet seat, and the inner ratchet seat rotating in the forward direction can drive the water diversion piece to rotate in the forward direction so as to switch the water outlet of the shower head. The subassembly that resets has switched out the water back at the gondola water faucet, can drive subassembly and drive outer ratchet seat reverse rotation, and the outer ratchet seat of reverse rotation can drive the ratchet and crooked to the direction of keeping away from outer ratchet seat, lets the ratchet break away from the tooth's socket, and crooked ratchet has the effort that resets to the primary importance, and when outer ratchet seat stall or forward rotation, the ratchet can butt on the tooth's socket again. Although the switching structure avoids the defects of the ball pen type switching structure, the switching structure needs to be reset through the bending of the ratchet, and the ratchet is easy to break in the process of frequent bending, so that the service life is shortened, and the reliability is reduced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model provides a shower structure, it has overcome the not enough that the background art exists. The utility model provides a technical scheme that its technical problem adopted is:

a sprinkler structure, comprising:

the fixed part is provided with a water inlet channel and a plurality of water outlet channels;

the water distribution switching mechanism comprises a driving piece, a lower gear, an upper gear, a water distribution piece and a pressing spring, wherein the driving piece is movably connected in the fixed part in a mounting mode, the lower gear is rotatably connected in the fixed part and is in transmission fit with the driving piece, the upper gear can rotate under the action of meshing fit with the lower gear and can move up and down relative to the lower gear, the water distribution piece is in transmission connection with the upper gear, and two ends of the pressing spring are respectively pressed against the fixed part and the upper gear;

when the driving piece moves to drive the lower gear to rotate in the forward direction, the upper gear is meshed with the lower gear under the action of the pressing spring, and the lower gear drives the upper gear and the water dividing piece to rotate, so that the water inlet channel is switched and communicated with one or more water outlet channels;

when the driving piece returns to the initial position, the lower gear rotates reversely, the upper gear moves upwards under the propping action of the lower gear, and the water dividing piece is kept still.

In a preferred embodiment: the water diversion piece is provided with a rotating shaft, the upper gear is provided with a shaft hole, the shaft hole is matched with the rotating shaft in a sleeved mode so that the upper gear can move up and down along the rotating shaft, and the water diversion piece can rotate synchronously along with the upper gear.

In a preferred embodiment: the pivot periphery is equipped with the spacing portion of first axial, the shaft hole is equipped with the spacing portion of second axial, can make gear and the synchronous rotation of water diversion spare through the spacing cooperation of the spacing portion of first axial and the spacing portion of second axial.

In a preferred embodiment: the lower gear is positioned below the upper gear and can rotate around the rotating shaft, one of the bottom surface of the upper gear and the top surface of the lower gear is provided with a plurality of ratchet grooves, the other one of the bottom surface of the upper gear and the top surface of the lower gear is provided with a plurality of ratchets, each ratchet can extend into and be meshed with the corresponding ratchet groove, and each ratchet can withdraw from the corresponding ratchet groove and can rotate relative to the ratchet groove.

In a preferred embodiment: the ratchet groove comprises a vertical groove surface and an inclined groove surface which are connected with each other, the ratchet comprises a vertical tooth surface and an inclined tooth surface which are connected with each other, the lower gear can be pressed against the vertical groove surface through the vertical tooth surface to drive the upper gear to rotate when rotating forwards, and the upper gear can move upwards until the inclined tooth surface is separated from the inclined groove surface when rotating backwards, so that the upper gear can be kept immovable in the circumferential direction.

In a preferred embodiment: still include the elasticity piece that resets, the elasticity resets and pushes up between driving piece and fixed part.

In a preferred embodiment: the driving piece is a shifting rod which is circumferentially and rotatably connected to the fixed part, one end of the shifting rod extends out of the fixed part, and the other end of the shifting rod is meshed and matched with the lower gear.

In a preferred embodiment: the other end of the shifting lever is provided with a first tooth part, the periphery of the lower gear is provided with a second tooth part, and the shifting lever and the lower gear are in transmission connection through the meshing fit of the first tooth part and the second tooth part.

In a preferred embodiment: the water diversion piece is provided with a plurality of water diversion holes which are always communicated with the water inlet channel, and different water outlet channels are switched and communicated through the water diversion holes so as to switch water paths.

In a preferred embodiment: the fixed part includes hollow casing, fixing base and water outlet assembly, the fixing base rigid coupling just in the casing inhalant canal sets up in this fixing base, water outlet assembly and fixing base looks rigid coupling and it is equipped with water outlet assembly, go up gear and lower gear and be located the fixing base, divide the water part to be located between fixing base and the water outlet assembly and its pivot stretches into in the fixing base.

Compared with the background technology, the technical scheme has the following advantages:

1. the driving piece moves to drive the lower gear to rotate in the positive direction so as to drive the upper gear and the water dividing piece to rotate so as to switch the water paths, and the driving piece is loosened and pushes the upper gear through the lower gear in the process of recovering to the initial position so as to enable the upper gear to move upwards; when the driving piece returns to the initial position, the upper gear moves downwards under the action of the pressing spring until the upper gear and the lower gear return to the meshed and matched state, so that the next switching is carried out. That is, the driving member can be restored to the initial state after each switching, the upper gear and the water dividing member are kept in the switched state, and the water outlet functions switch water out in turn.

The switching structure can avoid the defect that the ball pen type switching structure cannot bounce when being pressed down, and can prolong the service life of the water diversion switching mechanism and further improve the reliability without resetting through the bending of the ratchet.

2. The two ends of the pressing and supporting spring are respectively supported against the fixed part and the upper gear, so that the pressing and supporting spring can ensure that the upper gear and the lower gear are always kept in a meshed and matched state when the lower gear rotates forwards, and the driving force can overcome the elastic force of the pressing and supporting spring to enable the upper gear to move upwards when the lower gear rotates backwards.

3. The driving rod and the lower gear are in transmission connection through the meshing fit of the first tooth part and the second tooth part, so that the driving effect between the driving piece and the lower gear is stable and reliable.

Drawings

The present invention will be further explained with reference to the drawings and examples.

Fig. 1 is a perspective exploded view of a preferred embodiment of a shower head structure.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the overall structure of a preferred embodiment of a shower head.

FIG. 3 illustrates a cross-sectional view of a preferred embodiment of a sprinkler structure.

FIG. 4 illustrates a top view of a water diversion member of a preferred embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a top view of the water outlet assembly according to a preferred embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the driving member of the preferred embodiment in the initial position, where the first water outlet channel is discharging water.

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the driving member in the active state, in which the second water outlet channel is discharging water.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the lower gear in a forward rotation according to a preferred embodiment.

Fig. 9 is a partially enlarged schematic view of fig. 8.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the lower gear in reverse rotation in accordance with a preferred embodiment.

Fig. 11 is a partially enlarged schematic view of fig. 10.

FIG. 12 is a schematic view illustrating the water outlet state of the first water outlet channel according to the preferred embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a schematic view illustrating the state of water flowing out of the second water outlet channel according to the preferred embodiment.

Detailed Description

In the claims, the specification and the drawings, unless otherwise expressly limited, the terms "first," "second," or "third," etc. are used for distinguishing between different elements and not for describing a particular sequence.

In the claims, the specification and the drawings, unless otherwise expressly limited, to the extent that directional terms such as "center", "lateral", "longitudinal", "horizontal", "vertical", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "clockwise", "counterclockwise" and the like are used, the positional or orientational relationships illustrated in the drawings are based on the positional and orientational relationships illustrated in the drawings and are merely for convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element so referred to must have a particular orientation or be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention in any way.

In the claims, the description and the drawings of the present application, unless otherwise expressly limited, the terms "fixedly connected" and "fixedly connected" should be understood in a broad sense, i.e., any connection without displacement relationship or relative rotation relationship between the two, i.e., including non-detachable fixed connection, integrated connection and fixed connection by other devices or elements.

In the claims, the specification and drawings of the present invention, the terms "including", "having" and their variants, if used, are intended to be inclusive and not limiting.

Referring to fig. 1-13, a preferred embodiment of a sprinkler structure, which includes a fixed portion and a water diversion switching mechanism, is shown.

The fixed part is provided with a water inlet channel 10 and a plurality of water outlet channels.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the fixing portion includes a hollow housing 20, a fixing seat 30 and a water outlet assembly 40, the fixing seat 30 is fixedly connected in the housing 20, the water inlet channel 10 is disposed in the fixing seat 30, and the water outlet assembly 40 is fixedly connected with the fixing seat 30 and provided with the water outlet channel; a water diversion cavity 31 is enclosed between the fixed seat 30 and the water outlet assembly 40. As shown in fig. 3, a buckle 32 is disposed at the top end of the fixing base 30, a clamping table 21 is disposed at an opening at the top end of the housing 20, and the fixing base 30 and the housing 20 are fixed by buckling the buckle 32 to the clamping table 21. And, the water outlet assembly 40 includes a water outlet panel 41 and a decorative cover 42 covering the water outlet panel 41, and the fixing base 30 is locked to the water outlet panel 41 by a screw 43. As shown in fig. 5, the top end of the water outlet panel 41 is provided with six through holes 44, the six through holes 44 are annularly arranged at intervals, and two through holes 44 arranged two by two symmetrically are communicated with one of the water outlet channels, that is, the water outlet panel 41 is provided with three water outlet channels. According to the requirement, the number of the through holes 44 can be four, and the number of the water outlet channels is two, which is not limited to this. In this embodiment, the water outlet of two water outlet channels, namely the first water outlet channel 45 and the second water outlet channel 46, is switched as an example for explanation.

The water diversion switching mechanism comprises a driving piece 50, a lower gear 60, an upper gear 70, a water diversion piece 80, a pressing and abutting spring 73 and an elastic resetting piece 90, wherein the driving piece 50 is movably connected to a fixed part, the lower gear 60 is rotatably connected to the fixed part and is in transmission fit with the driving piece 50, the upper gear 70 can rotate under the action of meshing fit with the lower gear 60 and can move up and down relative to the lower gear 60, the water diversion piece 80 is in transmission connection with the upper gear 70, and the elastic resetting piece 90 abuts between the driving piece 50 and the fixed part;

when the driving member 50 moves to drive the lower gear 60 to rotate forward, the upper gear 70 is meshed with the lower gear 60 under the action of the pressing spring 73, the lower gear 60 can simultaneously drive the upper gear 70 and the water diversion member 80 to rotate, and the water inlet channel 10 is switched to be communicated with one of the water outlet channels; when the driving member 50 is restored to the initial position by the elastic restoring member 90, the lower gear 60 rotates in the reverse direction, the upper gear 70 moves upward by the abutting action of the lower gear 60, and the water dividing member 80 remains stationary.

In this embodiment, the water diversion member 80 is provided with a rotating shaft 81, the upper gear 70 is provided with a shaft hole 71, and the shaft hole 71 and the rotating shaft 72 are in sleeved connection, so that the upper gear 70 can move up and down along the rotating shaft 81 and the water diversion member 80 can synchronously rotate along with the upper gear 70.

In this embodiment, the periphery of the rotating shaft 81 is provided with a first axial limiting portion 82, the shaft hole 71 is provided with a second axial limiting portion (not shown), and the upper gear 70 and the water diversion component 80 can rotate synchronously through the limiting fit of the first axial limiting portion 82 and the second axial limiting portion. As shown in fig. 1, the first axial limiting portion 82 is a protrusion extending along the length direction of the rotating shaft 81, the second axial limiting portion is a recess extending along the length direction of the shaft hole 71, the protrusion and the recess are matched to realize the synchronous rotation of the upper gear 70 and the water diversion member 80, and the upper gear 70 can move up and down along the rotating shaft 81.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the upper gear 70 and the lower gear 60 are both located in the fixing base 30, and the lower gear 60 is located below the upper gear 70 and can rotate around the rotating shaft 81. As shown in fig. 9 and 11, the bottom surface of the upper gear 70 is provided with a plurality of ratchet grooves 72, the top surface of the lower gear 60 is provided with a plurality of ratchet teeth 61, each ratchet tooth 61 can extend into and engage with a corresponding ratchet groove 72, and each ratchet tooth 61 can withdraw from the corresponding ratchet groove 72 and can rotate relative to the ratchet groove 72. The positions of the ratchet 61 and the ratchet groove 72 can be exchanged according to the requirement, but not limited to this.

Specifically, the ratchet groove 72 includes a vertical groove surface 721 and an inclined groove surface 722 which are connected with each other, the ratchet teeth 61 include a vertical tooth surface 611 and an inclined tooth surface 612 which are connected with each other, the lower gear 60 can be pressed against the vertical groove surface 721 through the vertical tooth surface 611 to drive the upper gear 70 to rotate when rotating forward, and the lower gear 60 can be pressed against the inclined groove surface 722 through the inclined tooth surface 612 to move the upper gear 70 upward until the inclined tooth surface 612 is separated from the inclined groove surface 722 to keep the upper gear 70 immovable in the circumferential direction.

In this embodiment, the pressing spring 73 is sleeved outside the rotating shaft 81, and two ends of the pressing spring are respectively pressed against the fixing base 30 and the upper gear 70. The two ends of the pressing spring 73 are respectively pressed against the fixed seat 30 and the upper gear 70, so that the pressing spring 73 can ensure that the upper gear 70 and the lower gear 60 are always in a meshed and matched state when the lower gear 60 rotates forwards, and the driving force can overcome the elastic force of the pressing spring 73 to enable the upper gear 70 to move upwards when the lower gear 60 rotates backwards.

In this embodiment, the water diversion member 80 is provided with a plurality of water diversion holes 83 which are always communicated with the water inlet channel 10, and different water outlet channels are switched through the water diversion holes 83 to switch the water channel. As shown in fig. 4, the water diversion member 80 is a water diversion disc, the water diversion holes 83 are opened on the water diversion disc and are arranged in four and annularly spaced arrangement, and the rotating shaft 81 is fixedly connected to the center of the water diversion disc. And as shown in fig. 3, the water diversion disc is located in the water diversion cavity 31, the fixing base 30 is provided with a through hole 33, and the rotating shaft 81 extends into the fixing base 30 through the through hole 33. A sealing ring 34 is arranged between the rotating shaft 81 and the through hole 33, and a sealing gasket 35 is arranged between the water distribution disc and the water distribution cavity 31. And, the lower gear 60 is sleeved on the outer periphery of the hole wall of the through hole 33.

As shown in fig. 6, the left and right diversion holes 83 correspond to the two through holes 44 at the lower part, at this time, the first water outlet channel 45 is used for discharging water, and the water discharging waterway is shown in fig. 12; as shown in fig. 7, when the driving member 50 is activated, the two diversion holes 83 located at the upper right and lower left correspond to the other two through holes 44 located at the lower side, and at this time, the second water outlet channel 46 is discharged, and the water discharge path thereof is as shown in fig. 13.

In this embodiment, the driving member 50 is a shift lever, and the shift lever is circumferentially and rotatably mounted on the fixed portion, and one end of the shift lever extends out of the fixed portion, and the other end of the shift lever is engaged with the lower gear 60. As shown in fig. 2, the housing 20 is provided with a relief hole 22 at the periphery, one end of the shift lever extends out of the housing 20 through the relief hole 22, and the shift lever can fluctuate left and right in the relief hole 22.

In this embodiment, the other end of the shift lever is provided with a first tooth portion 51, the outer periphery of the lower gear 60 is provided with a second tooth portion 64, and the shift lever and the lower gear 60 are in transmission connection through the meshing engagement of the first tooth portion 51 and the second tooth portion 64.

As shown in fig. 6, the initial position of the driving member 50 is shown, in which the elastic restoring member 90 is not yet compressed; as shown in fig. 7, the shift lever is shifted to the right, and the other end of the shift lever drives the lower gear 60 to rotate forward through the meshing engagement of the first tooth portion 51 and the second tooth portion 64, and at this time, the elastic restoring member 90 is compressed to store elastic potential energy; if the shift lever is released, the shift lever is reset toward the initial position by the elastic reset member 90, and the lower gear 60 is also rotated in the reverse direction by the driving member 50.

The specific operating principle of this gondola water faucet structure does:

as shown in fig. 6, the driving member 50 is at the initial position, the elastic restoring member 90 is not compressed, the left and right diversion holes 83 correspond to the two through holes 44 below, at this time, the first water outlet channel 45 is discharging water, and the upper gear 70 and the lower gear 60 are in a meshed fit state, as shown in fig. 8 and 9, and the water outlet waterway state is as shown in fig. 12;

as shown in fig. 7, the driving member 50 is shifted to the right, and the meshing engagement between the first tooth portion 51 and the second tooth portion 64 can drive the lower gear 60 to rotate in the forward direction, so as to drive the upper gear 70 and the water dividing member 80 to rotate until the two water dividing holes 83 located at the upper right and lower left correspond to the other two through holes 44 located at the lower right, and at this time, the second water outlet channel 46 is discharged, and the water discharge path thereof is as shown in fig. 13; at this point, the resilient return member 90 is compressed;

when the driving member is released, the driving member 50 is restored to the initial position by the elastic restoring member 90, the lower gear 60 is rotated in the reverse direction by the driving member 50, as shown in fig. 10 and 11, the upper gear 70 moves upward to separate the ratchet teeth 61 from the ratchet grooves 72, so that the lower gear 60 does not rotate the upper gear 70 and the water dividing member 80 during the reverse rotation, and the upper gear 70 and the water dividing member 80 are kept in the switching state.

The driving member 50 is again shifted to the right, and the above-mentioned circulation operation is performed to perform the switching of the next water outlet passage.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and therefore the scope of the present invention should not be limited by this description, and all equivalent changes and modifications made within the scope and the specification of the present invention should be covered by the present invention.

Claims

1. A shower head structure, its characterized in that: it includes:

2. A sprinkler structure according to claim 1, wherein: the water diversion piece is provided with a rotating shaft, the upper gear is provided with a shaft hole, the shaft hole is matched with the rotating shaft in a sleeved mode so that the upper gear can move up and down along the rotating shaft, and the water diversion piece can rotate synchronously along with the upper gear.

3. A sprinkler structure according to claim 2, wherein: the pivot periphery is equipped with the spacing portion of first axial, the shaft hole is equipped with the spacing portion of second axial, can make gear and the synchronous rotation of water diversion spare through the spacing cooperation of the spacing portion of first axial and the spacing portion of second axial.

4. A sprinkler structure according to claim 2, wherein: the lower gear is positioned below the upper gear and can rotate around the rotating shaft, one of the bottom surface of the upper gear and the top surface of the lower gear is provided with a plurality of ratchet grooves, the other one of the bottom surface of the upper gear and the top surface of the lower gear is provided with a plurality of ratchets, each ratchet can extend into and be meshed with the corresponding ratchet groove, and each ratchet can withdraw from the corresponding ratchet groove and can rotate relative to the ratchet groove.

5. A sprinkler structure according to claim 4, wherein: the ratchet groove comprises a vertical groove surface and an inclined groove surface which are connected with each other, the ratchet comprises a vertical tooth surface and an inclined tooth surface which are connected with each other, the lower gear can be pressed against the vertical groove surface through the vertical tooth surface to drive the upper gear to rotate when rotating forwards, and the upper gear can move upwards until the inclined tooth surface is separated from the inclined groove surface when rotating backwards, so that the upper gear can be kept immovable in the circumferential direction.

6. A sprinkler structure according to claim 1, wherein: still include the elasticity piece that resets, the elasticity resets and pushes up between driving piece and fixed part.

7. A sprinkler structure according to claim 1, wherein: the driving piece is a shifting rod which is circumferentially and rotatably connected to the fixed part, one end of the shifting rod extends out of the fixed part, and the other end of the shifting rod is meshed and matched with the lower gear.

8. A sprinkler structure according to claim 7, wherein: the other end of the shifting lever is provided with a first tooth part, the periphery of the lower gear is provided with a second tooth part, and the shifting lever and the lower gear are in transmission connection through the meshing fit of the first tooth part and the second tooth part.

9. A sprinkler structure according to claim 1, wherein: the water diversion piece is provided with a plurality of water diversion holes which are always communicated with the water inlet channel, and different water outlet channels are switched and communicated through the water diversion holes so as to switch water paths.

10. A sprinkler structure according to claim 2, wherein: the fixed part includes hollow casing, fixing base and water outlet assembly, the fixing base rigid coupling just in the casing inhalant canal sets up in this fixing base, water outlet assembly and fixing base looks rigid coupling and it is equipped with water outlet assembly, go up gear and lower gear and be located the fixing base, divide the water part to be located between fixing base and the water outlet assembly and its pivot stretches into in the fixing base.