US 12,247,377 B2
Aerator
Wolf-Dieter Lacher, Mullheim (DE); and Holger Schürle, Mullheim (DE)
Assigned to NEOPERL GMBH, Mullheim (DE)
Appl. No. 17/435,772
Filed by Neoperl GmbH, Mullheim (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/055925
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 2, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/182629, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 202019101313.3 (DE), filed on Mar. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0154438 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. E03C 1/084 (2006.01)
CPC E03C 1/084 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aerator (1), comprising:
a housing (2),
a jet-splitting device (3), arranged or formed in the housing (2), configured to split an individual stream into a plurality of separate liquid portions,
the jet-splitting device (3) has at least two flow channels (4) which are oriented obliquely such that streams formed by the flow channels (4) meet each other, and
an insert part (5) is inserted into a hole (6) of a base body (28) of the jet-splitting device (3) such that the hole (6) is divided into the at least two obliquely extending flow channels (4), wherein the insert part (5) is fixed on the base body (28) by a retaining device (15) which includes at least one latching projection (17), formed on a surface of an inflow-side upper side (16) of the base body (28), that acts on the insert part (5) with a pretensioning force,
wherein the surface of the inflow-side upper side (16) is oriented in a cross-direction to a longitudinal axis of the aerator (1), and
wherein the at least one latching projection (17) projects inwardly from the surface of the inflow-side upper side (16) towards a center of the surface of the inflow-side upper side (16).