Abstract: A faucet has a base formed with a outwardly open cavity and a pair of confronting open outlet ports opening into the cavity. A sleeve fitted over the base at the cavity has an inner surface directed radially inward at the base, and is rotatable on the base. A spout extending radially outward from the sleeve is formed with a pair of passages each radially inward at the sleeve inner surface into the cavity. A connector in the cavity is formed with an outer surface radially confronting the sleeve inner surface, with a pair of axially oppositely directed tubular inlet nipples fitted in the outlet ports, and with respective passages extending from the nipples and opening radially outward at the outer surface level with the passages. Seals between the surfaces couple the connector to the spout fitting for joint rotation therewith and preventing fluid flow between the grooves.

Abstract: A valve assembly has a fixed disk and a movable disk. The fixed valve disk has a flat face centered on an axis and is formed to one side of the axis with an axially throughgoing aperture. The normally rotary movable valve disk has a flat face bearing on the fixed-disk face and formed to one side of the axis with an axially throughgoing aperture. Thus on rotation of the rotary disk about the axis relative to the fixed disk the apertures are moved between an aligned position in which fluid can pass through the apertures and a nonaligned position in which each disk at least partially blocks the aperture of the other disk. One of the disks is formed at the respective face to the other side of the axis with an inwardly open recess positioned so as to be exposed by the aperture of the other disk in the nonaligned position.

Abstract: An autoclosing flow-control valve assembly has a housing forming an inlet chamber normally filled with a fluid under pressure, an outlet chamber, and a main valve seat between the chambers. A piston defining in the housing a control chamber carries a valve element sealingly engageable with the seat. A piston spring braced between the piston and the housing urges the piston and element into the closed position. The piston is formed with a small bleed passage extending between the control chamber and the outlet chamber. A control passage extending between the inlet chamber and the control chamber has a pilot valve that when open pressurizes the control chamber and pushes the piston and element into the open position and when closed blocks flow through the control passage. An actuating member is actuatable to open the pilot valve and an actuating spring braced between the member and the housing urges the member out of contact with the pilot valve.

Abstract: A shower head has a rigid body forming a pressurizable compartment having a downstream wall of composite synthetic-resin material having an inner face and formed with an array of throughgoing holes so that pressurized water in the compartment will exit therefrom through the holes. A unitary liner sheet of a soft elastomer has an outer face bonded to the inner face of the downstream wall and is formed with respective tubular nipples fitting in and projecting through the holes. Each nipple forms a throughgoing passage having an inner end opening in the compartment and an outer end opening outside the body. The liner sheet and integral nipples are molded in situ against the inner face of the plate forming the downstream wall of the shower body. The composite synthetic-resin material is a polybutyleneterephthalate and the elastomer is silicone or the composite synthetic-resin material can be polypropylene and the elastomer a thermoplastic.

Abstract: An assembly for mounting a bath fixture to a wall having a surface formed with a plurality of holes opening at the surface has respective anchors seated in the holes, a bracket adapted to hold the fixture and having a face turned toward the wall at the holes, a disk of elastomeric material between the bracket face and the wall surface and formed with throughgoing apertures aligned with the wall holes, and respective screws extending through the bracket and through the disk apertures and securing the bracket to the wall with the disk compressed between the bracket and the wall. The elastomeric disk, which has a Shore A hardness of about 65 and a thickness of about 1 mm and may be made of closed-cell sponge rubber, prevents water from getting into the space behind the bracket, in particular into the region around the hole in the wall.

Abstract: A valve has a housing, a valve spindle projecting outward from the housing and centered on and rotatable about an axis, and an actuating handle. Radially inwardly projecting and axially extending ridges are formed in the handle. An overload protecting coupling is formed by a sleeve fitted over the spindle and formed unitarily with a skirt having an inner surface spaced radially outward from the spindle and an outer surface formed with radially outwardly projecting and axially extending ridges meshing with the ridges of the handle. The skirt is formed with a plurality of axially inwardly open slots subdividing it into a plurality of ridged segments and it is elastically inwardly deflectable. Thus this sleeve forms a slip coupling that allows the handle to rotate the valve spindle until same is arrested, for instance at the end of its stroke, and thereafter turn independently of the spindle to prevent overloading it.

Abstract: A flow-control valve has a housing, a valve plate fixed in the housing and formed relative to a direction of flow through the valve with a flat upstream face and with an outlet port opening at the face, and a control plate fixed in the housing and formed relative to the flow direction with a flat downstream face riding on the valve-plate face and with a throughgoing inlet port opening at the face. This control plate is slidable on the valve plate for alignment of the ports and flow through the valve from the inlet port to the outlet port and for misalignment of the ports for restricted flow from the inlet port to the outlet port. A shield plate is fixed in the housing immediately upstream of the control plate and formed with an aperture aligned in the direction with and of generally the same shape as the port of the valve plate. Thus incoming flow will always be confined to a stream aligned with the outlet port of the valve plate.

Abstract: A valve comprises a housing forming a compartment traversed by an axis and having a radially opening outlet port and an axially open inlet port, a valve plate fixed in the housing and formed relative to a flow direction therethrough with a flat upstream face and with an axially throughgoing valve orifice opening at the face, and a control plate in the housing formed relative to the flow direction with a flat downstream face riding on the valve-plate face, with an axially throughgoing control orifice opening at the face, and with an axially open socket. This control plate is pivotal on the valve plate about the axis for alignment of the orifices and flow through the valve and for misalignment of the orifices for restricted flow through the valve.

Abstract: A shut-off valve mechanism for a shut-off and control valve has a generally cylindrical housing with inner and outer annular shoulder against which a valve seat disk is placed to prevent distortion of the valve seat disk. The valve control disk is pressed by spring forces against the valve seat disk from its upstream side and is entrained in rotation by a spindle passing through the inner annular shoulder and the valve seat disk.

Abstract: A brush for cleaning articles like bottles includes a hollow handle and a brush body connected to the latter and having a plurality of bristles. The brush body accommodates a passage through which the fluid flows and is provided with a plurality of slots radially extending from the passage in one plane. Cooperating with the slots is a deflector which has a rim portion extending beyond the plane of the slots so that the fluid after flowing through the handle and the passage is discharged through the slots and deflected onto the bristles at an acute angle with respect to the center axis of the brush.