Patent ID: 9062438
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: E03C,F16K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A faucet assembly, comprising: a mixing valve; an inlet/outlet assembly connected to the mixing valve, the inlet/outlet assembly having inlet and outlet lines permanently affixed to a face plate; a valve housing including: wherein the longitudinal axis of the bore is skew from the longitudinal axis of the cavity, the longitudinal axis of the bore being neither parallel nor intersecting with the longitudinal axis of the cavity; and wherein the inlet and outlet lines each include a first bend and a second bend adjacent the first bend; wherein at the first bends, the inlet and outlet lines bend sideways from the horizontal to the vertical adjacent their junctions with the face plate so that they join the face plate on an opposite side of the face plate from the mixing valve, and wherein the first bend of each line bends the line from the face plate towards the cavity, and the second bend of each line bends the line in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the cavity.