Control valve of manual/automatic and cold/hot water faucet
AssigneeHydrotek Corporation
InventorSu Huang
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Abstract
A control valve of a manual/automatic and cold/hot water faucet includes a sliding member, a linking member, and an operating member. The sliding member has a notch. The linking member is recessed with a connecting groove. The operating member has a valve stem and a linking portion. The linking portion drives the linking portion and the sliding portion through the connecting groove. The valve stem, the connecting groove and the central axis are arranged concentrically, so that the overlapping area of the notch and the cold water hole is equal to the overlapping area of the notch and the hot water hole to keep the same ratio of cold water to hot water in an automatic mode to dispense water, thereby increasing the safety in use.
Claims7
A control valve of a manual/automatic and cold/hot water faucet, the control valve being mounted in the manual/automatic and cold/hot water faucet, the manual/automatic and cold/hot water faucet having a cold water passage, a hot water passage, an automatic-mode water passage and a manual-mode water passage, the control valve comprising a sliding member, a linking member, an operating member and a housing, the sliding member having a notch communicating with the cold water hole, the hot water hole and the automatic-mode water passage, the sliding member further having a groove communicating with the manual-mode water passage, the operating member being configured to drive the linking member to slide the sliding member horizontally and having a first position and a second position, when in the first position, the groove only communicating with the manual-mode water passage, when in the second position, the groove communicating with the cold water passage, the hot water passage and the manual-mode water passage, the housing covering the sliding member and the linking member, characterized in that:
- the linking member is recessed with a connecting groove and a restricting groove, the operating member includes a valve stem and a linking portion, the linking portion is accommodated in the connecting groove, the housing is provided with a guide block, when in the first position, the guide block is accommodated in the restricting groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.