Mixer tap

Mixer tap, comprising:

• a hollow tap body made of a plastic material and extending between a lower open end, suitable for connection to fastening means of the tap to a tap support surface, such as the surface of a washbasin, and an upper open end, the tap body having a side wall in which a side outlet opening is made;
• a mixer cartridge housed in a cartridge seat made in the tap body;
• a cartridge support base plate, housed in a base plate seat made inside the tap body under the cartridge seat, hot water and cold water inlets being made in said cartridge base plate, said hot water and cold water inlets being connectable to respective hot and cold water supply pipes fluidically communicating with the mixing cartridge, and a water outlet being made in said cartridge base plate and being connected to the mixing cartridge and ending with a water outlet lumen made in the side wall of the base plate and aligned with the side outlet opening of the tap body;
• a cartridge command lever operationally connected to the mixer cartridge;
• a water outlet tube which extends from the side outlet opening of the tap body and which is connected fluidically with the water outlet lumen;
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• a shell casing comprising a body portion which covers the tap body and a tube portion which covers the water outlet tube.