Faucet Handle
AssigneeWolverine Brass, Inc.
InventorGordon L. Spurgeon
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Abstract
A faucet handle base includes a socket receiving the head of a valve stem, and a laterally directed elongate bore communicating with the socket. The inner end portion of the bore is internally threaded and receives a retaining screw extensible into the valve socket, the outer end portion of the bore, of a relatively larger internally threaded diameter, receives the mounting nipple on a handle insert, closing the bore and completely concealing the retaining screw.
Claims11
A faucet handle assembly comprising a handle base, a socket defined in said handle base for the selective reception of a valve control stem, a bore through said handle base communicating with said socket, said bore having an inner end portion adjacent said socket and an outer end portion opening exteriorly of said base, a retainer receivable within said bore inner end portion, first mounting means for threadedly mounting said retainer within said inner end portion of said bore for selective extension into said socket for engaging with and retention of the valve control stem received in said socket, a handle insert, said insert having a mounting portion receivable within said outer end portion of said bore, and second mounting means for retaining said handle insert mounting portion within said bore.
A faucet handle assembly comprising a handle base, a socket defined in said handle base for the selective reception of a valve control stem, a linear bore through said handle base communicating with said socket, said bore having a threaded inner end portion adjacent said socket and an outer end portion opening exteriorly of said base, a retainer threadedly mountable within said bore at said inner end portion for selective extension into said socket for engaging with and retention of a valve stem received in said socket, and a handle insert, said insert having a mounting portion receivable within said outer end portion of said bore, and second mounting means for retaining said handle insert mounting portion within said bore.
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