Valves
AssigneeBarking Brassware Co., Ltd.
InventorVictor Howard George King
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Abstract
This invention relates to a water tap in which a screw threaded valve member is operated by a handle. Between the handle and valve member there is an intermediate member which is snapped into the valve housing and transmits rotary motion from the handle to the valve member. The handle is removably connected to the intermediate member and is arranged to overlie the intermediate member so as to conceal it and retain it in snap fit engagement with the valve body.
Claims13
A fluid flow control valve comprising in combination a hollow valve body with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a valve seating in the valve body between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, a valve member that co-operates with the valve seating to control fluid flow from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet, the valve member being mounted in the valve body in screw threaded engagement therewith, an intermediate member, the valve member being engaged with the intermediate member for rotation therewith, the intermediate member being in snap-on engagement with the valve body whereby rotational but not axial movement of the intermediate member relatively to the valve body is permitted, an operating handle for rotating the intermediate member, and for retaining the latter in snap-on engagement with the valve body, leak preventing means located within the valve body for preventing the leakage of fluid between the valve member and the valve body, and a releasable retainer for securing the operating member to the intermediate member.
A fluid flow control valve comprising in combination a hollow valve body with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a valve seating in the valve body between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, a valve member mounted in the valve body in screw threaded engagement therewith for co-operation with the valve seating, an intermediate member separate from the valve member, the valve member being engaged with the intermediate member for rotation therewith and longitudinal movement relatively thereto, intermediate member being rotatably mounted upon the valve body but secured against axial movement relatively thereto, a separate operating member for rotating the intermediate member, the operating member being separate from the intermediate member upon which the operating member is mounted and which it conceals, leak preventng means located within the valve body for preventing the leakage of fluid between the valve member and the valve body, and a releasable retainer for securing the operating member to the intermediate member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.