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US 6,547,966 B2Granted
In-line basket filter for a spray spout assembly
AssigneeMasco Corporation of Indiana
InventorsOtto Karl Allmendinger, Garry Robin Marty
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Abstract
A hand held spray spout (10) has a basket filter (26) seated against an anti-siphon valve (24) proximate the base end of a water passage (12) within the spout. The filter has a plurality of protrusions (50) mounted within the inner diameter of the valve (24) and is also biased against the rim (52) of the valve. The filter has prongs (56) extending upstream from the basket section (40) to abut and be biased by a supply hose end which is mounted to the base end (14) of the hand held spray spout (10).
Claims5
A filter for filtering particulates from a water spray head;
- said filter being characterized by:
- said filter having a basket section with a side extending longitudinally from an open end to an end with a plurality of ports therethrough, said side having filtering ports therethrough;
- said open end having a rim defining a seat section for seating an anti-siphon valve downstream from said filter;
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- a plurality of circumferentially spaced protrusions having radially outer surfaces that extend axially outwardly beyond said open end and positioned radially inwardly of said seat section defined by said rim for preventing said anti-siphon valve from collapsing radially inwardly into said open end.
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