Adjustable faucet handle assembly
AssigneeZin-Plas Corporation
InventorMerritt J. Nelson
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Abstract
A faucet handle assembly has a skirt attached to an insert which is in turn secured to a faucet stem. The skirt has a plurality of ribs each of which has a shoulder portion positioned so the top part of the rib extends over the lower part of the rib. The insert has two sets of different size notches. Each set of notches can be aligned in registry with the ribs. The shoulder portion of the rib engages the top surface of the flange adjacent the edge of one size notches. Another size notches are sufficiently large to fit the top part of the ribs within the notches. When the large notches engage the plurality of ribs, the top section of the skirt is supported by the flange abutting thereto. The skirt height can be adjusted through a choice of notches which engage the plurality of ribs.
Claims8
A faucet handle assembly comprising:
- a skirt on the handle having a hollow interior and retaining sides;
- an insert;
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- two sets of alterate interengaging means on the skirt and insert each of the sets having means for preventing relative rotation in clockwise and counterclockwise directions between the skirt and insert, said interengaging means being so shaped as to provide one axial position of the insert within the skirt when one interengaging means is operative and providing a second axial position of the insert when the second interengaging means is operative.
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