Ball-type faucet
OwnerAnthony R. Brandelliinventor
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Abstract
There is disclosed a faucet of the "washerless" construction employing a spherical valve member in a hemispherical valve body in which the spherical valve member has only a single protruding tubular member that serves both as the valve member operator and the discharge nozzle for the faucet.
Claims22
In a faucet for the dispensing of a single stream of controllable proportions of at least two fluid streams and having a body with a hemispherical cavity receiving a spherical valve member having a single outlet port and inlet port means communicating therewith and sealingly secured in said cavity by an annular seal and annular cover member assembly removeably attached to said body, at least two inlet ports communicating with said cavity through seal wells and annular seal means received in each of said seal wells and biased therein against the opposed surface of said spherical valve member;
- the improvement which comprises:
- a single member secured to and received in the single outlet port of said spherical valve member and projecting through said annular seal and annular cover member, said single member being tubular to function as the dispensing nozzle and as the valve member operator of said faucet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.