Fluid handling – With repair – tapping – assembly – or disassembly means – Assembling or disassembling float or float valve
Patent
1997-06-05
2000-08-15
Walton, George L.
Fluid handling
With repair, tapping, assembly, or disassembly means
Assembling or disassembling float or float valve
137436, 137444, 251148, 285204, 285220, 285402, F16K 3120, F16K 3300, F16L 4100
Patent
active
061020672
ABSTRACT:
A new Bifurcated Fill Valve Assembly for permitting removal of a fill valve from a toilet tank without disturbing the seal at the toilet tank and without disconnecting the water supply line. The inventive device includes a tank fitting extended through and mounted within an opening in a wall of a toilet tank and a fill valve including a valve body having an inlet portion wherein the inlet portion of the fill valve is releasably coupled to the tank fitting within the toilet tank. As such, the fill valve can be uncoupled from the tank fitting and removed from the toilet tank while the tank fitting remains mounted within the toilet tank and coupled to a water supply conduit that supplies water to the fill valve when in use.
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