Abstract: A valve has 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 the flow direction 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 a flow direction through the valve with a flat downstream face riding on the valve-plate face, an axially throughgoing control orifice opening at the face, and an axially open and radially elongated socket on the face adjacent the respective orifice. The control plate is pivotal on the valve plate about the axis for alignment of the orifices and flow through the valve from the inlet port to the outlet port and for misalignment of the orifices for restricted flow from the inlet port to the outlet port.

Abstract: A valve assembly comprises a valve body having an nonplanar outer surface and formed with a threaded seat opening at the surface and with a passage opening into the seat. A valve in the body supplies water through the passage to the seat and a metallic tube having a threaded inner end engaged tightly in the seat forms an extension of the passage. A decorative sleeve engaged concentrically around the tube has an inner end shaped to fit flush against the body outer surface. A retaining device is engaged between the outer end of the tube and the outer end of the sleeve for pressing the inner end of the sleeve against the body outer surface. The retainer for the tube includes a snap ring fitted to the outer end of the tube and an elastomeric washer engaged between the snap ring and the tube outer end.

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 mixing valve comprises a housing centered on a housing axis, a base plate formed with an outlet port bisected by a symmetry plane including the housing axis and a pair of arcuate inlet ports offset from the outlet port and symmetrically flanking the plane. The ports open on the base plate at a planar front surface perpendicular to the axis and plane. A control plate has a back surface lying on the base-plate front surface and is formed with a cavity opening at the back surface at a rim. A lever is mounted on the housing and control plate for moving the control plate parallel to the symmetry plane from a closed position with the cavity over the outlet but not over either of the inlets to an open position with the cavity over the outlet port and at least one of the inlet ports and transverse to the symmetry plane to vary the coverage of the inlet ports while still being over the outlet port.

Abstract: A single-control mixing valve comprises a housing generally centered on an axis and having an open end, a base plate closing the open end, formed with inlet and outlet passages, and formed around the passages with grooves, respective seals seated in the grooves, a control plate formed with a crossflow cavity and displaceable in the housing to interconnect the passages of the base plate, and a lever pivoted on the control plate for displacing same. The base plate is secured in the housing for only limited axial movement therein by inwardly deflectable barbs and formations pinch the seals in the grooves so that the valve is a self-contained units whose parts cannot become accidentally separted before it is installed.

Abstract: A wall-mount faucet assembly has a mounting fitting adapted to be fixed in the wall and connected to incoming hot- and cold-water lines. This fitting is formed with an outwardly directed seat provided with hot- and cold-water ports to which can be fastened an end of a substantially cylindrical body centered on an axis of a mixing faucet. An annular holder has two parts that engage complementarily around the faucet body adjacent the base and against the wall and that can be secured together to clamp the holder to the faucet body. An annular cover plate engageable around the faucet body and over the holder axially with the wall is fastened to this holder to lock it in place. The cover plate includes a main part formed with a radially open slot wide enough to fit over the faucet body, and a filler part complementarily engageable in the slot.

Abstract: A wall-mount faucet assembly has a wall fitting adapted to be recessed in a wall and having an externally threaded stem projecting from the wall centered on an axis and formed with hot- and cold-water outlet ports. This fitting is formed with hot- and cold-water inlet ports behind the wall. A mixing faucet having an internally threaded collar engageable with the stem is rotatable thereon for axially displacing the faucet on the fitting. The faucet is formed in the collar with hot- and cold-water inlets connected in the fitting to the outlet ports. An adapter engaged in the collar between the faucet and the fitting has hot- and cold-water passages with upstream ends at the respective outlet ports and downstream ends at the respective inlets. The downstream ends are concentric such that the inlets connect thereto in any angular position of the faucet on the fitting.

Abstract: A mixing-valve assembly has a hollow housing, a valve plate in the housing formed with hot- and cold-water inlet ports and an outlet port, a control plate slidable on the valve plate and formed with a mixing cavity alignable with the ports, and a lever assembly pivoted on the control plate for sliding the control plate on the valve plate and thereby bringing the cavity into registration with the ports for water flow therebetween. An adapter disk fitted in the housing is formed with a recessed seat in which the valve plate is snugly engaged and with respective passages communicating with the valve-plate ports. The adapter disk is secured in the housing to fix the valve plate therein.

Abstract: A water mixing valve has an axially shiftable bottom pressed by water pressure against the valve seat disk in a housing for the assembly which allows the assembly to be inserted as a unit into the valve. The openings in the bottom have constrictions against which tubular seals press to provide the axial force which prevents a gap from forming between the bottom and the valve seat disk.

Abstract: The water mixing valve is provided with a housing insertable in a sanitary fixture. The housing is made of a cuplike casing and a base member having a plurality of throughgoing water passages. The mixing valve has a valve seat disk held fixed in the cuplike casing and a control disk movable with an operating member. A sealing member made of elastic rubber material is positioned in each of the water passages for sealing the valve seat disk and the sanitary fixture. To simplify the sealing member construction and particularly their mounting in the mixing valve each of the sealing members is undetachably attached in the vicinity of the opening in the wall of the base member for one of the water passages.

Abstract: The mixing faucet for a washing and rinsing table comprises a faucet housing held on an opening in the table by a clamping means tightenable against the table underside. To improve the attachment to the washing and rinsing table, a mounting base equipped with a passage for the supply lines mountable and attachable to the opening or built on the opening in the table is provided and retaining and engaging means suitable for the mounting base are built in the faucet housing. Thereby the mixing faucet is slidable in the mounting base from the upper side of the washing and rinsing table and is lockable in an inserted position.

Abstract: The connecting fitting member for a cold and warm water mixing valve includes a coupler mounted in a structure wall, which has passages for two or more pipe connections and from which additional passages lead for connection of the mixing valve branch in a substantially transverse direction. The housing of the mixing valve has a base surface corresponding to the upper surface of the coupler. This connecting fitting member is improved, since a fitting member is inserted or mounted in the housing of the mixing valve, with which it is possible to reverse the connections for the cold and warm water by a rotation of 180.degree. and to fix the mixing valve in any angular position in the coupler.

Abstract: A faucet for mixing hot and cold water especially for a wash fixture, wash bowl or the like comprises a faucet housing connectable to hot and cold water supply pipes having a mixing or outlet chamber which is connected with a water outlet piece which is a withdrawable shower hose outlet. An aerating device responding to low pressure in the chamber which prevents a reverse suction of dirty water by the faucet is integrated in the faucet housing with the mixing or outlet chamber connected with it. This aerating device at least comprises one closure member pressed at least by the force of gravity into the closed position. The weight of the closure member is so chosen that the closure member is drawn into the open position with a lower pressure in the mixing or outlet chamber and communicates between the mixing or outlet chamber and/or the supply pipes and the atmosphere to supply air to the system.

Abstract: Water fittings for rinsing tables or the like include a hose pipe which is provided with a hose fiting having a casing which accommodates in downstream direction a shut-off valve for controlling the water flow and a fast coupling for providing a connection of the hose fitting with a hand appliance.

Abstract: A self-regulating mixing valve has a main housing having hot- and cold-water inlets, compartments, and valve seats. A valve body is displaceable axially in the housing between one end position engaging the hot-water seat and an opposite end position engaging the cold-water seat, blocking flow from the cold-water inlet compartment to the outlet compartment, and out of engagement with the hot-water seat and permitting flow from the hot-water inlet compartment to the outlet compartment. On moving between these end positions the valve body passes through intermediate positions permitting flow from both inlet compartments past the respective seats into the outlet compartment. A fitting body fixed in the housing and defining a wall of the outlet compartment is formed with a throughgoing hole opening into the outlet compartment. A thermostat in the outlet compartment is fixed with the valve body to a tubular stem engaged through and limitedly axially movable in the hole of the fitting body.

Abstract: A mixing faucet of the single hole mounting type and having a swivelable discharge arm includes an actuating linkage for a drain valve which is swivelable with the drain arm.

Abstract: A mixing valve has a base plate adapted to be fixedly mounted on a base fitting and a housing sleeve centered on an axis, mounted on the base plate for rotation about the axis, and formed with a radially open window. A stationary valve plate is fixed on the base plate inside the sleeve and formed with at least two incoming liquid ports and one outgoing water port spaced therefrom. A movable valve plate flatly sitting on the stationary plate inside the sleeve is formed with a chamber alignable with the ports therein. This movable plate is angularly and radially displaceable relative to the axis so the chamber variously overlaps and interconnects the ports. A control member fixed inside the sleeve to the movable valve plate is pivoted on the inner end of a control member also pivoted on the sleeve and having an outer end projecting radially from the sleeve through the window. The sleeve has a lower end rotatably mounted on the base plate and an internally threaded upper end.

Abstract: A hand held kitchen sink spray is disclosed with various cleaning attachments. The attachments are attached by a quick-release connector.

Abstract: A water valve with a hollow piston axially reciprocable in a cylindrical bore of a surrounding sleeve is provided, for long-term lubrication of the piston, with grease chambers formed as inwardly open peripheral recesses on the inner sleeve surfaces at opposite extremities thereof. The valve is preferably of the single-handle mixing type, the piston being rotatable within the sleeve for selectively connecting a cold-water inlet and/or a hot-water inlet with a common outlet; the region of water flow between these ports is isolated by sealing rings from the two grease chambers.

Abstract: A mixing valve for sanitary operations comprises a valve seat disk having two inlet passage openings and a controlling disk held against the valve seat disk adjustable by a handle, so that the relative proportions of the fluids mixed are controllable by rotation of the controlling disk and the flow rate of the mixed fluid is controlled by a displacement of the controlling disk, wherein the two inlet passage openings for the fluids mixed are formed symmetrically positioned in one half of the valve seat disk, each of the two inlet passage openings being formed as an arcuate segment positioned on a circular arc, and wherein a transfer passage formed in the controlling disk is brought into overlap with the inlet passage openings adjacent an arc shaped front edge of the transfer passage.