Patent ID: 9625051
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: E03D,F16K,G05D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A toilet fluid control apparatus for mounting in a toilet tank of a type including an upright tubular hollow open top stem and having a flush control device to be actuated by a flush lever shiftable to a flush position to flush water from the toilet tank, and comprising: an upright adjustable master fill pipe device including a flow control valve; the master fill pipe device including concentric male and female tubes cooperating to form an annulus receiving the stem; the female tube including a contraction extremity formed with a plurality of longitudinally projecting flexible fingers to allow for contraction to engage the stem to limit vertical movement of the master fill device and the stem; a fitting to be fitted over the contraction extremity and shiftable to a locking position and constructed to, when in the locking position, contract at least one of the longitudinally projecting flexible fingers radially inwardly to engage the stem; a cylindrically shaped float apparatus disposed concentrically about the master fill pipe device, formed with a downwardly facing edge cooperating with the master fill pipe device to form a downwardly facing annulus, the downwardly facing edge constructed to, as the cylindrically shaped float apparatus is lowered, travel through a predetermined path; a coupling coupling the float with the flow control valve; a vertically elongated catch device disposed on one side of the master fill pipe device for rotating between catch and release positions; a mounting device for mounting the catch device from the pipe device for rotation between the catch and release positions; a keeper device mounted on the catch device to be, when the catch device is in the catch position, disposed in the predetermined path to block lowering of the float apparatus; and a connector connecting a lower extremity of the catch device with the flush lever to, upon the flush lever being shifted to the flush position, rotate the catch device to the release position.