Faucet rough-in assembly
AssigneeAS America, Inc.
InventorsJose David Hernandez, Jesus Garcia
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Abstract
A thermoplastic rough-in body for a wall-mount faucet, comprising a cold water inlet configured to fluidly couple to a cold water source and a hot water inlet configured to fluidly couple to a hot water source; a first chamber configured to receive a first handle/cartridge assembly and a second chamber configured to receive a second handle/cartridge assembly; an outlet configured to fluidly couple to a faucet spout assembly; a cold water flow channel, a hot water flow channel, and a mixing chamber.
Claims19
A rough-in body for a wall-mount faucet, comprising a cold water inlet configured to fluidly couple to a cold water source and a hot water inlet configured to fluidly couple to a hot water source;
- a first chamber configured to receive a first handle/cartridge assembly and a second chamber configured to receive a second handle/cartridge assembly;
- an outlet configured to fluidly couple to a faucet spout assembly;
- a cold water flow channel, a hot water flow channel, and a mixing chamber, wherein each of the cold water inlet, the hot water inlet, the outlet, the first chamber, and the second chamber comprise a central axis, the rough-in valve body is configured to be positioned within a wall by a mounting bracket having a mounting face parallel to the cold water inlet central axis and the hot water inlet central axis, the first chamber central axis, the second chamber central axis, and the outlet central axis are parallel to one another and are perpendicular to the cold water inlet central axis, the hot water central axis, and the mounting face of the mounting bracket, such that the first chamber central axis, the second chamber central axis, and the outlet central axis protrude from the wall and the cold water inlet central axis and the hot water inlet central axis extend vertically inside the wall, the rough-in body comprises a thermoplastic, the cold water inlet, the hot water inlet, the cold water flow channel, the hot water flow channel, the mixing chamber, and the outlet are in flow communication, the outlet comprises:
- an outer threaded surface configured to threadingly mate with an inner threaded surface of an annular coupling, and an outer unthreaded surface configured to be received within an inner surface of the faucet spout assembly to fluidly couple the outlet to the faucet spout assembly, and the annular coupling comprises an outer threaded surface configured to couple to the faucet spout assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.