Abstract: A valve assembly has a one-piece housing having lower, upper, and side sockets respectively defining lower, upper, and side openings. A stepped mounting sleeve has a downwardly directed shoulder bearing inwardly on an upper-opening shoulder, an upwardly directed shoulder, and a threaded lower end engage in a holder inside the housing. An insert mounted on the holder has a front face directed outward at the side opening, adapted to carry a valve cartridge, and provided with connections for fluid supply lines. A mounting rod extending through the insert and sleeve has an upper end at the upper socket and a lower portion extending out of the housing through the lower opening. A nut threaded on the upper rod end bears downward on the upwardly directed shoulder of the mounting sleeve. Mounting structure engaged with the rod lower portion outside the housing secures the housing down against a mounting surface.

Abstract: A plumbing fixture has a hollow housing formed with a first tubular collar extending along a first axis and a second tubular collar extending along a second axis transverse to the first axis. The housing is secured to a deck with the first collar engaging the deck. A holder mounted in the first collar has an end aligned in the housing with the second axis and a valve mount in the housing is fixed on the holder end. An inlet pipe and an outlet pipe extend through the first collar and are connected to the valve mount. A valve cartridge in the housing is releasably secured to the valve mount by fasteners accessible through the second collar.

Abstract: A valve body has a hollow rigid housing formed with at least two outwardly open sockets centered on respective axes that extend generally perpendicularly of each other and a connector body fitted in one of the sockets at an intersection of the axes and having an outer face directed outwardly in the one socket and an inner face directed outward in the other socket. The connector body is also formed with a plurality of passages extending between the faces. A valve cartridge is secured to the connector-body outer face. In addition an insert body fitted in the other socket has an inner face engaging complementarily with the connector-body inner face and is formed with passages having inner ends opening into the connector-body passages at the connector-body inner face and outer ends. One of the inner faces is formed as a recess and the other as a complementary projection such that when fitted together the connector body is fixed in the housing.

Abstract: A valve assembly has a valve housing having hot- and cold-water inlet ports and a mixed-water outlet port and a valve disk fixed in the housing, centered on an axis, and having a face formed with respective arcuate hot- and cold-water grooves offset diametrically opposite to each other relative to the axis, each aligned with and receiving flow from the respective inlet port, and having centers of curvature at the axis, a is also formed with a central throughgoing outlet opening. A movable valve disk sitting flat on the face of the fixed valve disk is formed with a pair of axially throughgoing arcuate openings offset diametrically opposite to each other and having centers of curvature at the axis and is also formed with a central throughgoing outlet opening aligned with the outlet opening of the fixed disk. The openings and grooves each have an arc length of less than 90.degree..