Metallic ball for a ballcock
AssigneeFinetek Co., Ltd.
InventorTing-Kuo Wu
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Abstract
A metallic ball has a sliding sleeve, a shell, at least one magnet and a mounting bracket. The sliding sleeve has an open upper end, an open lower end and an outer surface. The shell is spherical, is mounted securely around the sliding sleeve between the open upper end and the open lower end of the sliding sleeve and has a reinforcing disk mounted around the outer surface of the sliding sleeve and has a top surface and may have a protruding portion. The magnet is on the top surface of the reinforcing disk. The mounting bracket is mounted around the sliding sleeve and on the top surface of the reinforcing disk to cover the magnet and has a wall extending toward and engaging the reinforcing disk and completely covering the magnet to effectively avoid the magnet being broken or damaged.
Claims12
A metallic ball comprising
- a sliding sleeve having
- an open upper end;
- an open lower end;
- and
- an outer surface;
- a shell being mounted securely around the sliding sleeve between the open ends of the sliding sleeve and having a reinforcing disk being mounted around the sliding sleeve and having
- a top surface;
- and
- a center hole being formed corresponding to the sliding sleeve for the sliding sleeve to extend through and having an edge abutting the surface of the sliding sleeve;
- at least one magnet being mounted on the top surface of the reinforcing disk;
- and
- a mounting bracket being mounted around the surface of the sliding sleeve and covering the at least one magnet and having
- a rim;
- and
- a wall being formed perpendicularly along the rim of the mounting bracket, being extending toward and abutting the top surface of the reinforcing disk that completely covering the at least one magnet and having a bottom edge being abutting and attached to the top surface of the reinforcing disk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.