Fluid handling – With casing – support – protector or static constructional... – Static constructional installations
Patent
1996-04-30
1999-02-02
Chambers, A. Michael
Fluid handling
With casing, support, protector or static constructional...
Static constructional installations
137315, 137316, 137801, F16K 4300
Patent
active
058652116
ABSTRACT:
An installation aid for facilitating the installation of a faucet body of a two handle faucet to a sink deck. The aid has a frusto-conical configuration with a skirt formed of resilient circumferentially spaced apart legs extending radially outwardly downwardly from a top under a retention cap with fingers that removably attach the installation aid to an enlarged head of a spout tube extending upwardly from a central part of a faucet body having spaced valve tubes which along with the spout tube having the temporarily attached installation aid are inserted upwardly through sink deck holes from below the sink deck. The legs of the installation aid squeeze together as it is forced through the sink deck hole and spring back to a frusto-conical configuration for temporarily mounting the faucet body to the sink deck while an installer assembles attachment hardware to the valve tubes from above the sink deck without the need for the installer to hold the faucet body with one hand below the sink deck while installing attachment hardware with his other hand above the sink deck.
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patent: 2708449 (1955-05-01), Keithley
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patent: 5232008 (1993-08-01), Jeffress et al.
patent: 5465749 (1995-11-01), Sauter et al.
patent: 5515882 (1996-05-01), Hennis
Chambers A. Michael
Kapustij Myron B.
Masco Corporation of Indiana
Redman Leon E.
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