Fluid handling – With repair – tapping – assembly – or disassembly means – Assembling – disassembling – or removing cartridge type valve
Patent
1978-05-15
1980-02-05
Michalsky, Gerald A.
Fluid handling
With repair, tapping, assembly, or disassembly means
Assembling, disassembling, or removing cartridge type valve
4192, 137327, 137359, F16L 500
Patent
active
041867610
ABSTRACT:
A quick-release system is disclosed for mounting a faucet assembly that includes a valve positionable on and operable from one side of a wall structure which is connected to a source of fluid on the other side of the wall structure through an opening therein. The quick-release system comprises an escutcheon, mounted in fixed relation with the valve on one side of the wall structure, that is configured to prevent its passage through the opening and an elongate, substantially inextensible stem mounted in fixed relation with the valve and the escutcheon that provides fluid communication between the valve and the fluid source. The stem is configured to extend through the opening with its free end spaced from the other side of the wall structure and is formed with at least one groove intermediate the free end and this other side. A washer, received in loose coaxial relation about the stem, is matable with the surface of the other side of the wall structure adjacent the opening and a helical coil spring, also receivable in loose coaxial relation about the stem, has an axial dimension in its relaxed condition that is greater than the distance from the groove to the other side of the wall structure. A generally U-shaped spring retainer clip is sized to be removably received in the groove and thereby defines a reaction surface that projects perpendicularly from the axis of the stem. The spring may be compressed between the reaction surface and the washer to thereby confine the wall structure between the escutcheon and washer and firmly hold the valve in its operable position.
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