Manual/automatic and cold/hot faucet with a ceramic valve
AssigneeHydrotek Corporation
InventorSu Huang
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Abstract
A manual/automatic and cold/hot faucet with a ceramic valve includes a main body adopting a ceramic valve that is connected with an automatic water exit passage and a manual water exit passage. The ceramic valve has a fixing member and a sliding member, with the sliding member sliding against the fixing member to command water to flow into the automatic water exit passage or the manual water exit passage. So the faucet can give water automatically or manually. As the ceramic valve is excellently resistant to abrasion, the present faucet can thus be durable, not apt to get leaked.
Claims7
A manual/automatic and cold/hot faucet with a ceramic valve, said faucet comprising:
- a main body provided with a water exit tube located at a top, an accommodating chamber and a valve room formed in said main body, a cold water passage and a hot water passage and an automatic water entering passage communicating with said accommodating chamber and said water exit tube, an automatic water exit passage communicating with said accommodating chamber and said water exiting tube, a manual water exit passage communicating with said valve room and said water exit tube;
- a ceramic valve installed in said valve room and provided with a ceramic fixing member having a cold water hole communicating with said cold water passage, a hot water hole communicating with said hot water passage, a water exit hole communicating with said manual water exit passage, a ceramic sliding member installed at one side of said fixing member and provided with a notch formed at some circumference to communicate with said cold water hole and said hot water hole and said automatic water entering passage, a groove formed in a center of said sliding member to communicate with said water exit hole, said sliding member able to horizontally move against said fixing member to a first position and a second position, said groove only communicating with said water exit hole while being at said first position and only communicating with said cold water hole and said hot water hole and said water exit hole while being at said second position, said ceramic valve further provided with a valve rod connected with said sliding member so as to command said sliding member to slide against said fixing member;
- an electromagnetic valve connected with said automatic water entering passage and said automatic water exit passage and employed to control water flowing from said automatic water entering passage to said automatic water exit passage;
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- a sensor electrically connected with and commanding said electromagnetic valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.