EMBEDDED FAUCET ASSEMBLY

The present invention discloses an embedded faucet assembly, which comprises a housing containing a lower main body, wherein an upper main body is arranged on said lower main body, the top of the upper main body is connected with a constant pressure valve core stretching out from the housing and connected with a switch handle, said housing is provided with a panel; a water baffle is arranged within a water entry of said lower main body, the water baffle comprises a standing plate, the bottom of the standing plate buckles inwards first and then downwards to form a buckling abdicating part; a side position of the inlet passage is provided with a stream guidance cavity comprising an upper stream guidance cavity and a lower stream guidance cavity, the upper stream guidance cavity communicates with the outlet passage on said lower main body, and the lower stream guidance cavity communicates with the inlet passage through the buckling abdicating part, a baffle is arranged between the upper stream guidance cavity and the lower stream guidance cavity, and is provided with a water-through hole for communicating the upper stream guidance cavity and the lower stream guidance cavity; the top of the stream guidance cavity is connected with a push rod by means of a threaded connection, the bottom of the push rod is provided with a sealing plug which can seal the water-through hole by moving down along with the push rod. The solution of the present invention possesses the advantages of convenience for maintaining and solving the problem of the water flowing out hot and cold unevenly.

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Description
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority to Chinese Application No. 201410166946.5, filed Apr. 23, 2014, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a faucet, and more particularly to an embedded faucet.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

At the present, the built-in solution, which embeds the main body a faucet into a wall body and only exposes the switch handle out of the wall is in most of the faucets mounted on the wall of a bathroom, and is applied extensively view of its advantages such as simply and convenient installation and saving space. For the conventional embedded faucets, after embedding the portion of the main of the faucets into the wall body, the corresponding repairing and replacing shall be completed after switching off the master valve for the water source while the valve core is closed due to the poor water quality or a requirement that the appearance of the faucets needs to be changed; however in many resident living quarters, the master valves for the water source pertain to the common and shared water valve, switching off the master valves of the source may affect the normal water use for the residents in the whole residential buildings; in particular for the hotel in modern the faucets of the shower rooms of all the rooms are communicated with one another and the water source is controlled by a master valve, thus the master valve must be switched off when the faucet of one bathroom needs to be replaced, and this affects the normal use of the other shower rooms and increases the maintenance cost of for hotel. Furthermore, the faucets for the sprinkler in the bathrooms are generally the cold and hot water faucets which occur the cases of the unstable water pressure due the water pressure differential between the cold and hot water, and this result in the situation that the water is sometimes hot and sometimes cold; when this situation occurs, the usage effect for these faucets may be rather poor, and may lead to the uncomfortable feel for the user while using. Therefore, the embedded faucet with the structure in the conventional prior art still needs to be improved.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Set forth herein are the present invention provides an embedded faucet assemblies.

In an embodiment, an embedded faucet assembly comprises: a housing (1), wherein a mounting foot (11) is provided at the bottom of the housing (1), a lower main body (2) is provided within the housing (1), a water inlet (211) and a water outlet (212) on the lower main body (2) protrude from a side wall of the housing (1), an upper main body (3) is mounted on the lower main body (2), and the top of the upper main body (3) is connected with a constant pressure valve core (4), the constant pressure valve core (4) protrudes from the housing (1) and is connected with a switch handle (5), the housing (1) is also provided with a panel (6) clinging to a wall surface and used for shielding internal pieces of the housing (1); the lower main body (2) is provided with an inlet passage (21) and an outlet passage (22), the inlet passage (21) is provided with a water baffle (23) comprising a standing plate (231), the bottom of the standing plate (231) buckles inwards first and then downwards to form a buckling abdicating part (232); a side position of the inlet passage (21) is provided with a stream guidance cavity (24) with an opening on the top, the stream guidance cavity (24) comprises an upper stream guidance cavity (241) and a lower stream guidance cavity (242), the upper stream guidance cavity (241) communicates with the outlet passage (22), and the lower stream guidance cavity (242) communicates with the inlet passage (21) through the buckling abdicating part (232), a baffle (25) is arranged between the upper stream guidance cavity (241) and the lower stream guidance cavity (242), and is provided with a plurality of water-through holes (251) for communicating the upper stream guidance cavity (241) and the lower stream guidance cavity (242); the top of the stream guidance cavity (24) is connected with a push rod (26) by means of a threaded connection, the bottom of the push rod (26) is provided with a sealing plug (27) which can seal the water-through holes (251) by moving down along with the push rod (26).

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a structure diagram of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a structure diagram of the present invention where the decoration panel and the identification panel are concealed;

FIG. 3 is a fitting schematic diagram of the lower and upper main bodies and the constant pressure valve core of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a structure diagram of the lower main body of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is an exploded schematic diagram of FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a structure diagram of the lower main body of the present invention at another angle;

FIG. 7 is a front projection drawing of the lower main body of the present invention;

FIG. 8 to FIG. 11 are the schematic cross-sectional views along the cross sections A-A′, B-B′, C-C′ and D-D′ in FIG. 7;

FIG. 12 is a structure diagram of the push rod of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a structure diagram of the adapting piece of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a structure diagram of the upper main body of the present invention;

FIG. 15 is a structure diagram of the upper main body of the present invention at another angle after concealing the first choke plug and the safety gasbag;

FIG. 16 is a disassembled schematic diagram of the safety gasbag and the upper main body of the present invention;

FIG. 17 is a front projection drawing of the upper main body of the present invention;

FIG. 18 is a diagrammatic cross-section of the middle section E-E′ after concealing the strainer in the left side;

FIG. 19 is a structure diagram of the safety gasbag of the present invention;

FIG. 20 is a structure diagram of the strainer in the present invention;

FIG. 21 and FIG. 22 are the structure diagrams of the second end plugs of the present invention;

FIG. 23 is a disassembled schematic diagram of the second mounting foot and the housing;

FIG. 24 is a partial enlarged drawing of F in FIG. 23;

FIG. 25 is a structure diagram of the second mounting foot of the present invention;

FIG. 26 is a structure diagram of the plugboard in the present invention;

FIG. 27 is a disassembled schematic diagram of the panel of the present invention;

FIG. 28 is a structure diagram of the decoration panel in the present invention;

FIG. 29˜FIG. 30 are the structure diagrams of the identification panels in the present invention;

FIG. 31 is a disassembled schematic diagram of the fixed sealing ring and the housing.

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In order to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art, the present invention provides an embedded faucet assembly, for which the faucet can be maintained and replaced conveniently and don't need to switching off the main valve of the water source during maintaining and replacing the faucets, and also solves the problem of the hot and cold outlet passage for the embedded faucets.

The technical solution adopted for solving the technical problem by this present invention is as follows:

An embedded faucet assembly comprises a housing, wherein the bottom of the housing is provided with a mounting foot, a lower main body is provided within the housing, a water inlet and a water outlet on the lower main body protrude from the side wall of the housing, an upper main body is mounted on the lower main body, and the top of the upper main body is connected with a constant pressure valve core, the constant pressure valve core protrudes from the housing and is connected with a switch handle, the housing is also provided with a panel clinging to a wall surface and used for shielding internal pieces of the housing; the lower main body is provided with an inlet passage and an outlet passage, the inlet passage is provided a water baffle comprising a standing plate, the bottom of the standing plate buckles inwards first and then downwards to form a buckling abdicating part; a side position of the inlet passage is provided with a stream guidance cavity with an opening on the top, the stream guidance cavity comprise an upper stream guidance cavity and a lower stream guidance cavity, the upper stream guidance cavity communicates with the outlet passage, and the lower stream guidance cavity is connected with the inlet passage through the buckling abdicating part, a baffle is arranged between the upper stream guidance cavity and the lower flow guide chamber, and is provided with a water-through hole for communicating the upper stream guidance cavity and the lower stream guidance cavity; the top of the stream guidance cavity is connected with a push rod by means of a threaded connection, the bottom of the push rod is arranged with a sealing plug which can seal the water-through hole while moving down along with the push rod.

As an improvement to the afore technical solution, the assembly comprises an inlet conduit and an outlet conduit communicating with the inlet passage and the outlet passage respectively which is provided on the upper main body, a gasbag holding cavity with an opening end is provided on the upper main body, the inlet conduit communicates with an end opposite to the opening end, a safety gasbag is arranged in the gasbag holding cavity, and the safety gasbag is a hollow cylinder, and comprises fixing rings at both end and a R inner concavity fixed between two fixing rings, the safety gasbag is arranged coaxial to the gasbag holding cavity, the opening end of the gasbag holding cavity is connected with a first end plug, the first end plug seals the opening end by coordinating with a seal ring.

As a furthermore improvement to the afore technical solution, a plurality of reinforcing ribs are distributed uniformly on the R inner concavity of the safety gasbag, and both ends of the reinforcing ribs are connected to the fixing rings respectively.

Further, a cavity for shelving a filter element is arranged on the passage of the inlet conduit, the top of the cavity for shelving the filter element is sealed by a second end plug cooperating with a seal ring, a strainer is mounted within the cavity for shelving the filter element.

As a preferred mode, the mounting foot comprises a projecting boss, wherein a longitudinally extended connecting hole is formed on the boss, side walls of the boss are arranged with a via hole running through the connecting hole, a blocking pillar is inserted into the connecting hole, and the top of the blocking pillar is formed with a second mounting foot by horizontal expansion, the second mounting foot is provided with a mounting hole for a screw, the blocking pillar is formed with a plurality of clamp slots in a direction perpendicular to the hole depth of the via holes, the blocking slots are arranged on the blocking pillars longitudinally; and also comprise a plugboard, wherein a slotting is provided in the front end of the plugboard, a backoff is arranged at the front end of the wall of the slotting, and the backoff buckles into the blocking slots of the blocking pillars after the plugboard is inserted into the via holes.

Further, the boss is formed with a plurality of abdicating gaps which abdicate both brims of the slotting while the slotting is hit to open, and the abdicating gaps communicates with the connecting holes.

As a preferred mode, the panel comprises a plastic panel, on which an abdicating hole for the valve core is formed, and the plastic panel is covered with a decoration panel 63 comprising a center hole corresponding to the position of the abdicating hole for the valve core, the wall of the center hole is provided with raised lines; and also comprises an identification panel covered with a marking using a laminating technology within a mould, the identification panel is formed with a center abdicating hole, the bottom end surface of the identification panel is formed with an evaginated loop, wherein the outer diameter of the bottom of the evaginated loop is greater than that of the top of the evaginated loop and thus a back-off structure fastened to the lower edge of the center hole is formed. After the identification panel is pressed into the centre hole of the decoration panel, the back-off structure is fastened along the lower hole brim of the centre hole, and the evaginated loop is formed with a plurality of gaps adapted to the raised lines, the bottom end surface of the identification panel is also formed with a clamp slot structure coaxial to the center abdicating holes, an O-shaped ring is arranged in the clamp slot structure.

Further, a bottom end surface of the identification panel is formed with an inner convex ring, the internal circle wall of the inner convex ring forms a plurality of bulging teeth distributing circularly and uniformly, where the bulging teeth, the inner convex ring and the identification panel constitute the clamp slot structure together.

Further, the push rod is connected with the stream guidance cavity through an adapting piece, wherein the adapting piece is provided with an internal and an external thread which is connected with the push rod and the stream guidance cavity respectively, and the adapting piece is formed with a through-hole coaxial to the internal thread, the top of the push rod sticks into or runs through the through-hole, and a screwdriver slot is arranged on the top of the push rod; and the adapting piece also comprises a convex ring resisting the opening end of the stream guidance cavity, a shelving slot for a seal ring is arranged under the convex ring, and the seal ring in the shelving slot forms a seal between the adapting piece and the stream guidance cavity.

As a preferred mode, fixed seal rings are arranged between the inlet passage and outlet passage of the lower main body and the housing, and which are formed with an inner circular hole which abdicates the corresponding inlet passage and the outlet passage, the inner circular hole is provided with a R inward flange with the effect of fastening; the periphery walls of the fixed seal rings are arranged with an outward flange, and the housing is provide with an internal slot adapted to the outward flange.

The advantageous effects are as follows: for the invention in the above structure, the maintaining and replacing of the faucets can be completed only needing to twist and spin the push rod to drive it move down bring along the sealing plug under the effect of the thread wherein the sealing plug moving down will block off the limber holes in the baffle, thereby separating the stream passage between the upper and lower guidance stream cavities, and the flow is unable to flow into the outlet passage from the inlet passage, thus the maintaining and replacing of the faucets can be convenient. Comparing to the situation of needing to turn off the main valve for the water source in a conventional technology, in the present invention, the appearance replacing of the valve core or the faucet can not affect the normal use of the other shower pieces, can not affect the normal water use of the whole residential building, and the maintaining and replacing are greatly facilitated, and the cost of maintaining is reduced. While connecting the constant pressure valve cores through the valve core seat and ensuring the cool water pressure identical to the hot water pressure by means of constant pressure valve cores, the constancy and invariability of the water temperature of the effluent is realized and the situation of hot and cold is avoided. And the products of the present invention are in a simple and compact structure, and it is convenient for installation and simple for implementation.

The present invention may be further described with reference to the drawings and the examples.

Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 31, an embedded faucet assembly comprises a housing 1 with mounting feet 11 arranged at its bottom. The housing 1 is arranged with a lower main body 2, wherein a water inlet 211 and a water outlet 212 on the lower main body stretch out of side walls of the housing 1, the lower main body 2 is mounted with an upper main body 3 which is fixed on the lower main body 2 through a threaded connection, and the upper main body is connected with a constant pressure valve core 4 at its top, wherein the constant pressure valve core 4 is used to assure the same hydraulic pressure of cold water and hot water in the embedded faucet so that the water temperature is constant and the situation that water is sometimes hot and sometimes cold can be avoided. Because the constant pressure valve core 4 is well known in the art, a further description thereof is not included herein. The constant pressure valve core 4 stretches out of the housing 1 and is connected with a switch handle 5. The housing 1 is mounted with the panel 6 clinging to a wall surface and used for shielding pieces within the housing 1. The lower main body 2 is provided with an inlet passage 21 and an outlet passage 22, wherein the inlet passage 21 is provided with a water baffle 23, the water baffle 23 comprises a standing plate 231, and the bottom end of the standing plate 231 buckles inwards first and then downwards to form a buckling abdicating part 232. The side position of the inlet passage 21 is provided with a flow guide chamber 24 with an open top end, which comprises an upper flow guide chamber 241 and a lower flow guide chamber 242, wherein the upper flow guide chamber 241 is connected with the outlet passage 22, the lower flow guide chamber 242 is communicated with the inlet passage 21 through the buckling abdicating part 232. A baffle 25 is arranged between the upper flow guide chamber 241 and the lower flow guide chamber 242, and provided with water-through holes 251 for communicating the upper flow guide chamber 241 and the lower flow guide chamber 242. And the flow guide chamber 24 is threadedly connected with a push rod 26 at its top. At the bottom of the push rod 26 is arranged with a sealing plug 27 which can seal the water-through hole 251 while moving down along with the push rod 26.

With the above structure of the invention, when maintaining and replacing the faucets is required, the maintenance personnel only need to screw the push rod, to drive the sealing plug move down with the effect of the thread, and the sealing plug moving down will block off the water-through hole 251 in the baffle 25, thereby separate the flow passage between the upper and the lower flow guide chamber 241, 242, and the flow is unable to flow into the outlet passage from the inlet passage, thus maintaining and replacing the faucets can be convenient. Comparing to the situation of needing to turn off the master valve for the water source in conventional technology, in the present invention, replacing the valve core or the faucet appearance may not affect the normal use of the other shower pieces, may not affect the normal water use of the whole residential building, and the maintaining and replacing are greatly facilitated, and the cost of maintaining is reduced.

In a preferred example, the push rod 26 is preferably connected with the flow guide chamber 24 through an adapting piece 8, wherein the adapting piece 8 is provided with an internal and an external thread 81 and 82 which are connected with the push rod 26 and the flow guide chamber 24, respectively. Through-holes 83 coaxial to the internal thread 81 are formed on the adapting piece 8. The upper portion of the push rod 26 sticks into or runs through the through-holes 83. A screwdriver slot 261 is arranged on the top of the push rod 26, and two seal ring inner groove 262 for holding the seal ring are provided on the push rod 26 located in the through hole 83. And the adapting piece 8 is also formed with a convex ring thereon which abuts against the open end of the flow guide chamber 24. The convex ring 84 is formed with a shelving slot 85 for the seal ring at its underneath, and the seal rings in the shelving slots 85 form seal between the adapting pieces 8 and the flow guide chambers 24. The arrangement of the adapting piece 8 is in favor of the assembly of the push rod 26, when assembled. The push rod 26 can be first pre-assembled with the adapting piece 8 to form a pre-assembly member, the pre-assembly member is then mounted in the flow guide chamber 24, and the assembly is convenient. Meanwhile, the arrangement of the adapting piece 8 is in favor of forming a seal between the chamber wall contact surfaces, the mating of the seal ring inner groove 262 and several sealing rings within the shelving slot 85 for the sealing rings may assure to form the good seal between the push rod 26 and the adapting pieces 8, and between the adapting pieces 8 and the flow guide chamber 24, accomplishes the sealing property of the push rod during the up and down movement of the push rod 26, and ensures that the up and down movement will not affect the sealing property of the whole structure.

The top end of the adaptive piece 8 is hexagon bolt head to easily install the adapting pieces 8 into the flow guide chamber 24.

In this example, an inlet conduit 31 and an outlet conduit 32 connected with the inlet passage 21 and the outlet passage 22 respectively are formed on the main body 3. A gasbag holding chamber 33 with an open end is provided on the upper main body 3, the other end of the gasbag holding chamber 33 opposite to the open end is communicated with the inlet conduit 31. A safety gasbag 34 is arranged in the gasbag holding cavity 33 which is a hollow cylinder, and comprises fixing ring 341 at both end and the R inner concavity 342 fixed between two fixing rings 341, the safety gasbag 34 is arranged at a same axis with the gasbag holding cavity 33, the opening end of the gasbag holding cavity 33 is connected with the first end plug 35, the first end plug 35 seals the opening end by coordinating with a seal ring. The arrangement of the safety gasbag 34 allows that the water enters into the safety gasbag 34 before water enters into the core of constant pressure core as the control water main body of the faucets. Subjecting to the water pressure, the R inner concavity 342 of the safety gasbag 34 may swell, and result increase of volume of the safety gasbag 34 and exerts an effect of relieving the pressure, such as the pressure exerting on the constant pressure valve core 4, and protects the constant pressure valve core 4, meanwhile decreases the noise of the flow during relieving the pressure.

As a preferred mode, a plurality of reinforcing ribs are distributed uniformly on the R inner concavity 342 of the safety gasbag 34, both ends of the reinforcing ribs are connected to the fixing rings 341, the arrangement of the reinforcing ribs 343 increases the strength of the R inner concave surface 342, meanwhile ensure that the R inner concave surface 342 can be reset after deformation.

In this example, a cavity 36 for shelving a filter element is arranged on the passage of the inlet conduit 31, of which the top is sealed by a second end plug 37 cooperating with a seal ring, a strainer 38 is mounted in the cavity 36 for shelving the filter element. The provision of the strainer 38 can avoid that the impurities block the sensitive positions such as the constant pressure valve cores 4 in the flow.

In this example, it is preferred that, the mounting feet 11 comprise a projecting boss 12, wherein a longitudinally extended connecting hole 13 is formed on the boss 12, side wall of the boss is arranged with a via holes 14 running through the connecting holes 13, a clip pillar 15 is inserted into the connecting holes 13, and the top of the clip pillar 15 is formed with a second mounting feet 16 by horizontal expansion, the second mounting feet 16 are provided a plurality of mounting holes 161 for a screw, the clip pillars 15 are formed with a plurality of clamp slots 17 in a direction perpendicular to the hole depth of the via holes 14, the clamp slots 17 may be several and arranged on the clip pillars 15 longitudinally. A plugboard 7 is also comprised, of which the front end is arranged with a slotting (71), and at the position of the front port of the slotting (71) is formed a backoffs 72, wherein the backoffs 72 buckles into the clamp slots 17 of the clip pillars 15 after the plugboard 7 is inserted into the via holes 14. By means of inserting the blocking pillars 15 in the connecting holes 13 on the boss 12, top of the blocking pillars 15 will extend inward and form the second mounting feet 16. The insertion of the via holes 14 and then backing-off 72 in the slot 17 on the blocking pillars 15 to allow installing the second mounting feet 16, allow the installation of the embedded faucets on the hollow wall body. Arranging slots 17 longitudinally allows to adjust the particular position of the second mounting feet relative to the housing 1 according to the size and the installation demands of the hollow wall body, and facilitates the installation of the embedded faucets on the wall body greatly.

It is preferred that, the boss 12 is formed with a plurality of abdicating gaps 18 abdicating both brims of the slot of the slotting (71) while the slotting (71) are opened, and the abdicating gaps 18 are connected with the connecting holes 13.

The abdicating gap 18 can facilitate the opening of the slot brims of the slotting, and comparing with the solution of abdicating the slotting opposite, this structure facilitates the close installation of the blocking pillars 15 and the adaptive holes and this structure is very reliable.

In this example, it is preferred that, on the blocking pillar 15, a plurality of guide slots 19 corresponding to the blocking slots 17 are provided, the slot bottom of the guide slot 19 is connected to the surface of the blocking pillar through a skew wall 191, the outline of the slotting 71 of the plugboard 7 adapts to the structure of the guide slot 19 and clings to the blocking pillars 15. The impact of the skew wall 191 on the back-off 72 exerts the function of leading the brim opening of the slotting 71 to be convenient to the pushing-in the plugboard 7 and allows the connection of the back-off 72 and the blocking slot 17. Of course, the skew wall can be arranged on the back-off 72 as the guidance wall surface, while the slotting 71 of the plugboard 7 is set as adapt to the guide slot 19 and clings to the block pillar, thus can be able to immobilize the blocking pillars 15 and avoid their waggle.

In this example, the wall surface close to the housing 1 of the second mounting feet 16 adapts to the outline of the housing 1 to form the cambered surface wall 162 which is arranged close to the housing 1, and this structure may avoid the second mounting feet waggling effectively, and the connection is very reliable.

In this example, it is preferred that, the panel 6 comprises a plastic panel 61, on the housing 1, there is a position 118 arranged for mounting a bolt, and the plastic panel is fixed to the position 118 arranged for mounting a bolt via a bolt 119; on the plastic panel 61, there is a abdicating hole 62 for the valve core and the plastic panel 61 is covered with a decoration panel 63 comprising a plurality of center holes 64 corresponding to the positions of the abdicating hole for the valve core 62. The wall of the center holes 64 is provided with raised lines 65. An identification panel 66 manufactured in a laminating technology is also comprised and covered with a marking. The identification panel 66 is formed with a center abdicating hole 67. An evaginated loop 68 is formed on the bottom end surface, wherein the outer diameter of the bottom of the evaginated loop 68 is greater than that of the top of the evaginated loop 68 and thus a back-off structure 69 is formed. After the identification panel 66 is pressed into the centre hole 64 of the decoration panel 63, the back-off structure is fastened along the lower hole brim of the centre holes 64, and the outer convex ring 68 is formed with a plurality of gaps 681 adapted to the raised lines 65, the bottom end surface of the identification panel 66 is also formed with the clamp slot structure 691 coaxial to the center abdicating holes 67, an O-shaped ring is arranged in the clamp slot structure 691. Dividing the panel 6 into the decoration panel 63 and the identification panel 66 which cover on the plastic panel 61, wherein, the identification panel 66 adopting a lamination process with a marking and discarding the conventional technology of setting the identification marking using the silk-screen and a laser marking, as a result, the identification on the faucets panel shall not fade for long time use or the chemical reaction occurring in the course of making the marking results in the panel yellowing. The panel structure described by this present invention possesses the marking which will never fade, and without any damage on the surface of the product, and thus guarantee the function of decoration and identification of the faucet surface.

In this example, the bottom end surface of the identification panel 66 is formed with a plurality of inner convex rings 661, the internal circle wall of the inner convex rings 661 is formed with a plurality of bulging teeth 662 distributing circularly, wherein the bulging teeth 662, the inner convex rings 661 and the identification panel 66 constitute the clamp slot structure 691 together.

In this example, it is preferred that, a plurality of fixed seal rings 113 are arranged between the inlet passage and outlet passage 211 and 212 of the lower main body and the housing, and which comprise a plurality of inner circular holes 114, the inner circular hole 114 is provided with a R inner inward flange 115. The periphery wall of the fixed seal rings 113 is arranged with the outward flange 116, and the housing is provided with a plurality of internal slots 117 adapted to the outward flanges 116. It is considered that, at the moment of turn on the embedding the faucets for water, its releasing in a twinkling under the high pressure may produce rather high noise and thus the water pipe may occur shock which may involve the lower main body 2, while installing the lower main body 2 on the fixed seal rings 113 doesn't allow the flow sound penetrating the wall body and may avoid the noise penetrating out of the tile.

The above description only may be the better modes of execution of invention, but the invention are not limited by the above examples, and any solution which achieves the same technical effect by means of a same or similar means shall be subordinated to the claimed scope of this present invention.

Claims

1. An embedded faucet assembly, comprising:

a housing (1), wherein a mounting foot (11) is provided at the bottom of the housing (1), a lower main body (2) is provided within the housing (1), a water inlet (211) and a water outlet (212) on the lower main body (2) protrude from a side wall of the housing (1), an upper main body (3) is mounted on the lower main body (2), and the top of the upper main body (3) is connected with a constant pressure valve core (4), the constant pressure valve core (4) protrudes from the housing (1) and is connected with a switch handle (5), the housing (1) is also provided with a panel (6) configured to cling to a wall surface and shield internal pieces of the housing (1); the lower main body (2) is provided with an inlet passage (21) and an outlet passage (22), the inlet passage (21) is provided with a water baffle (23) comprising a standing plate (231), a bottom of the standing plate (231) buckles inwards first and then downwards to form a buckling abdicating part (232); a side position of the inlet passage (21) is provided with a stream guidance cavity (24) with an opening on the top, the stream guidance cavity (24) comprises an upper stream guidance cavity (241) and a lower stream guidance cavity (242), the upper stream guidance cavity (241) communicates with the outlet passage (22), and the lower stream guidance cavity (242) communicates with the inlet passage (21) through the buckling abdicating part (232), a baffle (25) is arranged between the upper stream guidance cavity (241) and the lower stream guidance cavity (242), and is provided with a plurality of water-through holes (251) for communicating the upper stream guidance cavity (241) and the lower stream guidance cavity (242); the top of the stream guidance cavity (24) is threadably connected with a push rod (26), the bottom of the push rod (26) is provided with a sealing plug (27) which can seal the water-through holes (251) by moving down along with the push rod (26).

2. The embedded faucet assembly of claim 1, wherein an inlet conduit (31) and an outlet conduit (32) communicating with the inlet passage (21) and the outlet passage (22) respectively are on the upper main body (3); a gasbag holding cavity (33) with an opening end is provided on the upper main body (3), the inlet conduit (31) communicates with an end opposite to the opening end, a safety gasbag (34) is arranged in the gasbag holding cavity (33), and the safety gasbag is a hollow cylinder, and comprises fixing rings (341) at both ends and a R inner concavity (342) fixed between two fixing rings (341), the safety gasbag (34) is arranged around a same axis with the gasbag holding cavity (33), the opening end of the gasbag holding cavity (33) is connected with a first end plug (35), the first end plug (35) seals the opening end by coordinating with a seal ring.

3. The embedded faucet assembly of claim 2, wherein a plurality of reinforcing ribs (343) are distributed uniformly on the R inner concavity (342) of the safety gasbag (34), both ends of the reinforcing ribs are connected to the fixing rings (341).

4. The embedded faucet assembly of claim 3, wherein a cavity for shelving a filter element (36) is arranged on the passage of the inlet conduit (31), of which the top is sealed by a second end plug (37) cooperating with a seal ring, and within which a strainer (38) is mounted.

5. The embedded faucet assembly of claim 1, wherein the mounting foot (11) comprises a projecting boss (12), a longitudinally extended connecting hole (13) is formed on the boss (12), side walls of the boss (12) are arranged with a via hole (14) running through the connecting hole (13), a blocking pillar (15) is inserted into the connecting hole (13), and a second mounting foot (16) on the top of the blocking pillar (15) by horizontal expansion, the second mounting foot (16) is provided with a mounting hole (161), a plurality of blocking slots (17) are formed in the blocking pillar (15) in a direction perpendicular to the hole depth of the via holes (14), the blocking slots (17) are arranged on the blocking pillars (15) longitudinally; and the mounting foot also comprises a plugboard (7), wherein a slotting (71) is provided in the front end of the plugboard (7), a backoff (72) is arranged at a front end of the wall of the slotting (71), and the backoff (72) buckles into the blocking slots (17) of the blocking pillars (15) after the plugboard (7) is inserted into the via holes (14).

6. The embedded faucet assembly of claim 5, wherein a plurality of abdicating gaps (18) abdicate both brims of the slot of the slotting (71) while the slotting (71) is on the boss (13), and the abdicating gaps (18) communicate with the connecting holes (13).

7. The embedded faucet assembly of claim 5, wherein the panel (6) comprises a plastic panel (61), on which abdicating hole (62) for the valve core is formed, the plastic panel (61) is covered with a decoration panel (63), the decoration panel (63) comprises a center hole (64) corresponding to the positions of the abdicating hole (62) for the valve core, the wall of the center hole (64) is provided with a plurality of raised lines (65); and the panel (6) also comprises an identification panel (66), the identification panel (66) is formed with a plurality of center abdicating holes (67), a plurality of evaginated loops (68) are formed on a bottom end surface of the identification panel (66), wherein the outer diameter of the bottom of the evaginated loops (68) is greater than that of a top of the evaginated loops (68) forming a back-off structure (69), after the identification panel (66) is pressed into the center hole (64) of the decoration panel (63), the back-off structure (69) is fastened along a lower hole brim of the center hole (64), and the evaginated loops (68) are formed with a plurality of gaps (681) adapted to the raised lines (65), the bottom end surface of the identification panel (66) is also formed with a blocking slot structure (691) coaxial to the center abdicating holes (67), an O-shaped ring is arranged in the blocking slot structure (691).

8. The embedded faucet assembly of claim 7, wherein a bottom end surface of the identification panel (66) is formed with an inner convex ring (661), an internal circle wall of the inner convex ring (661) is formed with a plurality of bulging teeth (662) distributing circularly and uniformly, wherein the bulging teeth (662), the inner convex ring (661) and the identification panel (66) together constitute the blocking slot structure (691).

9. The embedded faucet assembly of claim 1, wherein the push rod (26) is connected with the stream guidance cavity (24) through an adapting piece (8), wherein the adapting piece (8) is provided with an internal and an external thread (81, 82) which is connected with the push rod (26) and the stream guidance cavity (24) respectively, and the adapting piece (8) is formed with a through-hole (83) coaxial to the internal thread (81), a top of the push rod (26) sticks into or runs through the through-hole (83), and a screwdriver slot (261) is arranged on the top of the push rod (26); and the adapting piece (8) also comprises a convex ring (84) configured for resisting the opening end of the stream guidance cavity (24), a shelving slot (85) for a seal ring is arranged under the convex ring (84), and the seal ring in the shelving slot (85) form a seal between the adapting piece (8) and the stream guidance cavity (24).

10. The embedded faucet assembly of claim 1, wherein fixed seal rings (113) are arranged between the inlet passage and outlet passage (211, 212) of the lower main body (2) and the housing (1), and the fixed seal rings (113) comprise an inner circular hole (114) abdicating the corresponding inlet passage and outlet passage (211, 212), the inner circular hole (114) is provided with a R inward flange (115); periphery walls of the fixed seal rings (113) are arranged with an outward flanges (116), and the housing (1) is provide with an internal slot (117) adapted to receive the outward flange (116).

Patent History
Publication number: 20150308086
Type: Application
Filed: Apr 22, 2015
Publication Date: Oct 29, 2015
Inventor: Jijun Feng (Jiangmen)
Application Number: 14/693,166
Classifications
International Classification: E03C 1/042 (20060101);