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US 2001/0011558 A1Published application
Cartridge for a single-lever mixing faucet
AssigneeKLUDI Aramaturen Scheffer Vertriebs- und Verwaltungs OHG
InventorPeter Schumacher
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Abstract
A cartridge for a mixing faucet is provided, in addition to the valve formed by a pair of disks and controlled by a single lever, with an electrically operated valve which can be actuated by a proximity detector to respond to the presence of a user's hand near the valve outlet.
Claims4
A cartridge for a single-lever mixing faucet comprising:
- a faucet-cartridge housing;
- a nonshiftable inlet/outlet disk in said housing communicating with hot and cold water inlets and an outlet;
- a shiftable control disk in said housing juxtaposed with said inlet/outlet disk for selectively connecting said inlets with said outlet;
- a lever pivotally mounted in said housing and operatively connected with said control disk for displacing said control disk;
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- an electrically operated valve within said housing in said outlet.
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