Electrically heated windshield washer spray nozzle assembly

An electrically heated spray nozzle assembly adapted to be mounted upon an automotive vehicle in a position to direct a fluid spray upon the windshield thereof includes a hollow angled pipe having a fluid inlet at one end and a spray nozzle at its other end. The pipe is enclosed in a housing made of heat-insulating thermoplastic material and a pill-shaped PTC heating element is mounted in a downwardly open chamber in the housing below the nozzle. The element is in contiguous heat exchange relationship with the pipe and nozzle and the power supply connections thereto pass through a plastic closure element closing the downwardly open chamber. The housing is circumferentially grooved for releasable engagement with the rim of an opening in the vehicle body. The PTC element has its temperature-resistance curve rising sharply at or about 0 DEG C. with its steepest portion below 50 DEG C.