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US 5,175,895 AGranted
Flapper valve mounting adapter
OwnerJeffrey R. Fike, John A. Fernstrum, Jr.inventors
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Abstract
An adapter for mounting, via trunnions, a flapper valve upon a pair of uprights extending from a valve seat of a discharge pipe in a toilet tank.
Claims18
An adapter for pivotally mounting a flapper valve upon a pair of uprights extending from a valve seat for a discharge pipe of a toilet tank, said adapter comprising in combination:
- (a) a body having opposed sides;
- (b) a pair of trunnions extending from the opposed sides of said body for pivotally supporting a pair of apertured arms extending from the flapper valve;
- (c) a passageway extending through said body for receiving and grippingly engaging the pair of uprights of the valve seat to mount and to retain said body on the pair of uprights, said passageway including at least first and second slot elements for penetrably receiving the uprights of the valve seat, each of said first and second slot elements having a cross section corresponding with the respective one of the pair of uprights;
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- (d) a web extending between the pair of uprights of the valve seat and said passageway including means for accommodating penetration of the web into said body.
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An adapter for pivotally mounting a flapper valve upon a pair of uprights having a web partly disposed between corresponding edges of the uprights, which uprights extend from a valve seat for a discharge pipe of a toilet tank, said adapter comprising in combination:
- (a) a body having opposed sides;
- (b) a pair of trunnions extending from the opposed sides of said body for pivotally supporting a pair of apertured arms extending from the flapper valve;
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- (c) a passageway extending through said body for receiving and grippingly engaging the pair of uprights and at least a section of the web to mount and to retain said body with respect to the valve seat.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.