Patent ID: 6796544
Filing Date: 2004-09-28
Classification: F16K,Y10T

Abstract:
A valve mount for the water saving core shaft of a single-handled faucet, comprising:a faucet mount, a locking cap, a valve embodiment, a water outlet control valve, a regulation seat, a control stick, a rotary member, a limiting piece and a faucet handle; wherein a housing cavity is disposed at the center of a rear portion of said faucet mount and are in communication with water inlet and outlet passages inside thereof; on an inner peripheral surface at the top of said housing cavity are disposed retaining threads with which outer threads of said locking cap are removably engaged; said tubular valve embodiment made in a stepwise form has an internal chamber; on the bottom edge of said valve embodiment are placed a plurality of insertion recesses and retaining through holes on a bottom wall that are registered with a plug block and a buckle extension in an alternating manner of a switching base respectively; said tubular valve embodiment has at the middle of an inner wall of said internal chamber are disposed a plurality of snap cavities; said water outlet control valve has an upper switching valve having a registration cavity on the top and a lower switching valve at the middle thereof and at the bottom is defined a switching base on which are disposed a plug block and a buckle extension in an alternating manner; said regulation seat is provided with a plurality of retaining projections at a bottom and a pair of projected registration cavities on the top; on the outer wall of said respective projected registration cavity is disposed a locking tooth; said control stick mounted in combination with said faucet handle has a pair of symmetric plug sticks each having an engagement through hole on the top end with which a fixing pin is engaged; said rotary member has an outer locking teeth registrable with the inner locking teeth of the limiting piece; a pair of reverse U-shaped stop surface are symmetrically defined on the inner wall of said rotary member the bottom of which is provided with a receiving cavity in cooperation with the top of said regulation seat; on the top and bottom edge of the receiving cavity is symmetrically disposed a left and right recess in which is housed a spring plate having a retaining corner at one side just extending into the receiving cavity; a stop flange defined at the bottom of said rotary member has a rear recess disposed at an outer side thereof with a spring plate housed therein; a limiting corner defined at one side of said spring plate just sticks out and abuts against said stop flange; said rotary member is put into said internal chamber of said valve embodiment with said stop flange of said rotary member in abutment against an inner shoulder of said internal chamber; said control stick is led from the bottom of said rotary member and into a receiving cavity of the same until the top end of said plug sticks comes into contact with said reverse U-shaped stop surface and then the fixing pin is led into the engagement through hole from one side of the stop surface of said rotary member so as to fix said control stick to said rotary member; said plug sticks of said control stick are registered with the projected registration cavities of said regulation seat which is accommodated in the receiving cavity of said rotary member; said retaining corners of said spring plates housed in said left and right recess become engaged with a front portion of the locking tooth; said retaining projections of said regulation seat are registered with said registration cavities of said switching valve; and said rotary member is engaged with the limiting piece and then said locking cap is secured to said faucet mount; said faucet handle is in locking engagement with said control stick to complete the assembly, whereby as said faucet handle is pried upwardly, said control stick will drive accordingly said regulation seat to rotate forwardly the upper switching valve of said switching valve; at this moment, said spring plates housed in the right and left recesses of said rotary member will move in response to the span of the movement of said regulation seat, the retaining corner of each said spring plate will sequentially come into registration with said locking tooth in a stepwise manner so as to effect precise regulation of the amount of water discharge; when said faucet handle is rotated to the left or right, said rotary member will be driven to spin clockwisely or counter-clockwisely as a result; then, said limiting corner of said spring plate housed in the rear recess of said rotary member will fall into registration with one of the snap cavities of said tubular valve embodiment to precisely control the minimum discharge of cold and hot water.