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EP1241385B1 - Quarter-turn thermostatic cartridge with concentric motion, with ceramic discs, and mixing tap using such a cartridge - Google Patents
Quarter-turn thermostatic cartridge with concentric motion, with ceramic discs, and mixing tap using such a cartridge Download PDF
EP1241385B1
EP1241385B1 EP20020290639 EP02290639A EP1241385B1 EP 1241385 B1 EP1241385 B1 EP 1241385B1 EP 20020290639 EP20020290639 EP 20020290639 EP 02290639 A EP02290639 A EP 02290639A EP 1241385 B1 EP1241385 B1 EP 1241385B1
EP20020290639
EP1241385A1 (en
Jean Chamot
2001-03-15 Priority to FR0103557 priority Critical
2001-03-15 Priority to FR0103557A priority patent/FR2822216B1/en
2002-03-13 Application filed by Vernet SA filed Critical Vernet SA
2002-09-18 Publication of EP1241385A1 publication Critical patent/EP1241385A1/en
2006-03-08 Publication of EP1241385B1 publication Critical patent/EP1241385B1/en
The invention relates to a quarter-turn thermostatic cartridge with concentric control, with ceramic disks, and a mixing valve comprising such a cartridge.
EP-A-1,022,635 discloses a cartridge according to the preamble of claim 1.
Most quarter-turn type ceramic disk cartridge valves currently fitted to sinks or washbasins do not effectively stabilize the temperature of the fluid output, called "mixed" or "mixed" fluid, when the pressure or / and the temperature of at least one of the inlet fluids (so-called "cold fluid" and "hot fluid") varies.
So cartridges of this type equipped with a thermostatic element have been created to regulate the temperature of the output fluid.
In particular, thermostatic cartridges of this type with a single-lever control are known, making it possible to constitute "mixer" taps, ie by means of which the flow and temperature settings are made by actuating a single lever. These cartridges provide flow control by means of two superimposed ceramic disks, the lower disk having up and down channels for the cold fluid and the hot inlet fluid, and the temperature control of the mixed output fluid at the outlet. by means of a temperature control slide located downstream, below the lower disk, secured to a thermostatic control element.
Also known are thermostatic cartridges of this type with concentric controls, requiring a valve having two concentric handles for controlling the flow and temperature. The flow control is also provided by two ceramic disks, and the temperature adjustment by a temperature control slide fastened to a thermostatic element, but the two disks have cold fluid rise channels and hot fluid, and the drawer, located downstream of these channels, is this time disposed above the upper disk.
In both cases, the arrangement of the cartridge limits the available diameter for the temperature control spool and the fluid passage section, resulting in poor temperature regulation, which is incompatible with the standards in force for thermostatic valves. , and low throughput, which limits the range of possible applications.
The object of the invention is to remedy these drawbacks and concerns for this purpose a thermostatic cartridge with ceramic disks for a fluid valve, of the quarter-turn type with concentric controls, comprising a regulating slide secured to a moving part of a thermostatic element, and first and second flow control discs contiguous to one of their faces, characterized in that the first disc has two internal through passages of hot fluid extending approximately into arcs of circumferences of approximately equal radii , separated and approximately end-to-end, two through-passages of cold fluid extending approximately into arcs of circumferences of approximately equal radius, separated and approximately end to end, and an internal recess opening into the face of the disk which is not attached to the second disc and whose bottom is a seat for the drawer and is in communicating with one of the cold fluid passages, and the second disk has two internal passages respectively of hot fluid and cold fluid extending approximately in arcs circumferences and is rotatable relative to the first disk from a position of opening wherein the hot fluid passage of the second disk connects the hot fluid passages of the first disk, and the cold fluid passage of the second disk connects the cold fluid passages of the first disk to a closed position where the fluid passage is hot the second disk is isolated from at least one of the hot fluid passages of the first disk and the cold fluid passage of the second disk is isolated from at least one of the cold fluid passages of the first disk, and vice versa.
Thanks to this arrangement, effective temperature control is obtained in a wide range of flow rates, and especially for very high flow rates.
The cartridge may further have one or more of the following additional features:
the passages respectively of hot fluid and cold fluid of the second disk are through passages, and it comprises a flow control handle provided with two chambers respectively of hot fluid and cold fluid respectively facing the hot fluid and cold fluid passages of the second disk; thus, the hot fluid and cold fluid flow sections between the hot fluid passages and between the cold fluid passages respectively may be large while not requiring a large thickness for the second disk;
the passages respectively of hot fluid and cold fluid of the second disk do not cross this disk from one face to another; in this case, the manufacture of this second disc and its control handle is simplified, and it is the same for mounting the cartridge.
it comprises an annular space for the hot fluid extending around the drawer and defined by external surfaces thereof and the inner surfaces of a member having a seat therefor and / or a housing in which there is housed the drawer and the disks; thus, a good distribution of the hot fluid around the spool is obtained, which contributes to the stabilization of the regulation;
it comprises an annular space for the cold fluid extending around the drawer and defined by external surfaces thereof and internal surfaces of a member having a seat therefor; thus, a good distribution of the cold fluid around the drawer is obtained, which also contributes to the stabilization of the regulation;
it comprises a housing having in one piece a hot fluid inlet conduit and a cold fluid inlet conduit respectively communicating with a hot fluid passage and a cold fluid passage of the first disc which is rotatably connected to said housing a hot fluid return conduit into which a hot fluid return passage of the first disc, a seating surface for the drawer and defining therewith a passage for the hot fluid from the first disc through the return duct; hot fluid for channeling it into the drawer, and an inner surface for guiding the drawer, and the housing contains in particular the two discs as well as the regulating slide and the thermostatic element, held by a housing plug; thus, the manufacturing costs of the cartridge remain relatively low; and
it comprises a turbulence generating member having an irregularly shaped inner surface vis-à-vis a thermosensitive region of a thermostatic element; thus, the thermostatic regulation is improved.
The invention also relates to a mixing valve equipped with a cartridge as defined above, characterized in that it comprises a flow control member secured to a flow control lever of the cartridge, and a control member. temperature attached to a temperature control lever of the cartridge.
Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will emerge from the description which follows, of embodiments of the invention given by way of non-limiting examples, illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic longitudinal section of a thermostatic cartridge according to the invention,
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic longitudinal section of the cartridge of FIG. 1, in a sectional plane perpendicular to that of this figure,
FIG. 3 is a view from below of a flow control lever fitted to the cartridge of FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 4 is a view from above of an upper disk equipping the cartridge of FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 5 is a view from above of a lower disk equipping the cartridge of FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 6 is a sectional view through a plane transverse to the cartridge passing through the line VI-VI of FIG. 1, of the mounting of the upper disk of FIG. 4 on the lower disk of FIG. 5, and
Figure 7 is a schematic longitudinal section similar to that of Figure 1, a second embodiment of a cartridge according to the invention.
The cartridge shown in the drawings, arranged around and along a central axis A, is intended to equip a water mixing valve.
It comprises a housing 1 having in its base (its lower part in FIGS. 1 and 2), extending longitudinally, an eccentric through-duct of hot water inlet 1A, a through duct an eccentric cold water inlet 1B, an eccentric hot water return duct 1C, and a central (axial) through channel terminating in the region of the lower end of the housing base, through an outlet duct mixed water 1D; the casing 1 has in its upper part externally of generally cylindrical shape, a housing also of cylindrical general shape in which are housed in particular a lower disc 2, an upper disc 3 whose lower face is contiguous to the upper face of the lower disc 2, and the lower part 4A of a flow control lever 4 adapted to be secured to a flow control member of a mixing valve. The lower part 4A of the handle comprises an outer flange whose base is threaded into the upper part of the casing 1 and bears on the upper disc 3, and an inner sleeve projecting beyond the flange and which is threaded into the upper part of a central (axial) hole passing through the upper disc 3 which is connected in rotation to the handle; the lower part 4A also encloses an overtravel stop device which will be described below, for a mobile equipment comprising an expandable wax thermostatic element comprising a movable part 5A whose region is thermally sensitive, to which is secured, for example screwed , a regulating slide 6, which movable element is housed essentially in the axial holes of the housing and disks as will be seen in the following; in the upper part 4B of the handle 4, is housed the base of a temperature control handle 7 to which the movable assembly is connected by a screw-nut system and which is adapted to be secured to a control member of tap temperature.
More specifically, in the base of the casing 1, the central channel ending in the mixed water outlet duct 1D comprises, in its upper region, a chamber of larger diameter than this duct, in which the drawer 6 is slidably mounted. ; this chamber is extended around the duct 1D by an annular groove 1E delimited internally and separated from the duct by an annular internal partition whose end edge 1F constitutes a seat for the drawer 6; in the annular groove, opens the hot water return conduit 1C which is thus in communication with the chamber of the central channel and with the mixed water outlet duct 1D when the drawer is not resting on its seat 1F; it will be noted that the hot water return duct 1C does not open into the lower face of the base of the casing, but only opens into its upper face, and as we have just seen in the groove 1E.
The lower disk 2, rotatably connected to the housing 1, comprises an axial central hole passing through the disk from one face to the other and, moreover, on the one hand facing the hot water inlet duct 1A, a first internal passage of hot water 2A also traversing and extending in the circumferential arc disc centered on the central axis A and less than 90 °, and secondly opposite the cold water inlet duct 1B a first internal passage of cold water passing through 2B also extending in circumferential arc centered on the central axis and less than 90 °, diametrically opposed to the first passage of hot water 2A; the lower disc 2 further comprises firstly a second internal passage of hot water 2C traversing the disc from one face to the other, extending therein in a circumferential arc centered on the central axis and less than 90 °, in which does not open the hot water inlet duct 1A but which opens itself into the hot water return pipe 1C, and secondly a second internal passage of cold water 2D traversing, extending in circumferential arc centered on the central axis and less than 90 °, in which does not open the cold water inlet duct 1B but which opens itself in a 2E of the disc s extending annularly around the central hole and opening into the face of the disc which is contiguous to the upper face of the base of the housing 1, therefore in the chamber of the central channel of this base; the annular bottom 2F of the recess 2E, vis-à-vis the seat 1F of the housing 1 for a lower face of the drawer 6, itself constitutes a seat for the opposite, upper face of the drawer. The radii of the circumferential arcs of the two through-passages of hot water 2A, 2C are approximately equal, and these two passages are arranged approximately end to end at a short distance from one another: in the face of the disc which is in in view of the base of the casing 1, the first through-passage of cold water 2B opens out in an arc of circumference of radius approximately equal to that of the hot water passages 2A, 2C, while that in the opposite face contiguous to the upper disk 3, the second through-passage of cold water 2D opens out in circumferential arc of smaller radius so that, in this opposite face, the outer wall of the orifice of the second passage of 2D cold water is closer to the axis A than the inner wall of the orifices of the two hot water passages 2A, 2C; on the other hand, the first passage of cold water 2B flares towards said opposite face so that in it the two orifices of the cold water passages 2B, 2D are at the same distance from the axis A The four passages 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D each extend a little less than a quarter of a circumference. A seal is inserted in grooves cut in facing relation in the housing 1 and the disc 2.
The upper disk 3 also has a central hole passing through it from one face to the other and furthermore a through-passage of hot water 3A and a through-passage of cold water 3B extending in arcs of circumferences on both sides. other of the central hole; in the face of the upper disc 3 which is contiguous to one face of the lower disc 2, the hot water passage 3A and the cold water passage 38 open through openings of the same radii respectively as the orifices vis-à-vis hot water passages 2A, 2C and the second cold water passage 2D of the lower disk. The two passages 3A, 3B of the upper disc 3 each extend over a little less than half a circumference; they have an enlarged part, here by a stepped profile, on the side of the face of the upper disk which is contiguous to the flange of the flow control lever 4, so as to open in this face by a larger orifice than in the face contiguous to the lower disk.
The lower portion 4A of the flow control lever 4 rotatably connected to the upper disk 3 comprises, as has been seen, a sleeve threaded into the upper part of the central through-hole of the upper disk 3; this sleeve bears against a shoulder of this central hole; a seal is inserted into grooves cut in facing relation in the contiguous faces of the upper disc 3 and the handle; as we have seen, the lower part 4A of the handle comprises a flange whose base is threaded into the upper part of the housing 1; the flange, opposite its base, protrudes out of the housing 1; around the projecting area of the flange, is fitted a plug 8 for the housing, to which the flange and thus the handle are axially connected. Inside the flange, a hot water chamber 4C and a cold water chamber 4D in communication respectively with the hot water passages 3A and the cold water passages 3B of the upper disc 3, extend in arches. circumferences on the same length and width as these. As has been seen, the handle 4 is intended to be secured to a flow control member of a mixing valve, and for this purpose an outer region of its upper portion 4B is grooved or grooved longitudinally.
The regulating slide 6 is slidably mounted inside a chamber of the central channel of the base of the housing 1, in which it is guided by the lateral inner surface thereof with the interposition of an O-ring seal; It is adapted to come into bearing selectively by one of its faces against the seat 1 F constituted by an end edge of an annular internal partition of the base of the housing, or by its opposite face against the seat 2F constituted by the annular bottom of the recess 2E of the lower disk 2; it comprises internally an annular chamber 6A, opening in its face which is opposite the seat 1 F, in which is housed a return spring 9; it also has cold water passage holes 6B to allow the passage of cold water longitudinally through the drawer, opening on one side in the drawer face facing the seat 2F of the lower disc 2 and the opposite side in room 6A.
A temperature adjusting screw 10 is housed inside the flow control handle 4, to which it is rotatably connected; this adjusting screw 10 is threadedly connected to the temperature control lever 7 so as to constitute a screw-nut type motion transmission system; it comprises an inner chamber which accommodates a disk-shaped overtravel support 11 for a normally fixed part 5B of the thermostatic element 5 (that is to say fixed in the absence of overtravel of the element 5 due at a very high temperature), an overtravel spring 12, and a locking washer 13, for example slotted and elastic, a part of which is housed in an annular groove of the inner surface of the chamber, near the end of this one which is open to drawer 6; the normally fixed part 5B of the thermostatic element (here, the inner part of the element 5) is applied against the bottom of a blind hole dug in the overtravel support 11, and, in the absence of overtravel, the overtravel spring 12 applies the overtravel support against the lock washer 13.
The base of the temperature control lever 7, housed and immobilized axially by means of a slotted washer in the upper part of the flow control lever 4, is free to rotate in it and the seal between the two Joysticks is provided by an O-ring.
An annular turbulence generating member 14, referred to as a "turbulator", inserted into the mixed water outlet central duct 1D around the thermosensitive region of the movable portion 5A of the thermosensitive element 5, has an irregularly shaped inner surface. in facing relation and at a distance from this region to ensure the temperature homogeneity of the outlet flow of the cartridge between the turbulator 14 and the element 5, and to promote the heat exchange between the mixed water and the thermosensitive region of the thermostatic element; this annular member 14 is held in abutment against a shoulder of the duct 1D by means of the return spring 9.
The plug 8 ensures the cohesion of all these parts of the cartridge and in particular allows to press the base of the housing 1 and the discs 2, 3 against each other by means of the control lever 4 of flow around which it is interlocked with the interposition of an O-ring.
The operation of the cartridge is as follows:
The hot water enters the cartridge through the conduit 1A of the housing 1, rises through the first hot water passage 2A of the lower disc 2, circulates in the hot water passage 3A of the upper disc 3 and in the chamber of hot water 4C of the flow control lever 4, descends through the second hot water passage 2C of the lower disk and then through the hot water return pipe 1C of the housing, spreads in the annular groove 1E of the housing and at the above it around the lower part of the regulation slide 6, and reaches the base of the chamber 6A of the drawer if it is not supported on its lower seat 1F. Simultaneously, the cold water enters the cartridge through the conduit 1B of the housing 1, goes up by the first hot water passage 2B of the lower disk 2, circulates in the cold water passage 3B of the upper disk 3 and in the cold water chamber 4D of the flow control lever 4, descends through the second water passage cold 2D of the lower disk, spreads in the annular recess 2E of the lower disk 2 and below it around the upper part of the regulating slide 6, and reaches the bottom of the chamber 6A of the drawer passing between it and its upper seat 2F and 6B through holes if the drawer is not supported on this seat.
At the base of the drawer 6, the hot and cold water begin to mix, and mixing continues around the thermostatic element 5 and in particular its heat-sensitive region and inside the turbulator 14 inserted into the 1D mixed water outlet duct through which the mixed water is discharged.
The flow rate adjustment is obtained by a rotation of the flow control lever 4, causing a rotation of the upper disc 3 defining the angular position of this disc relative to the lower disc 2, and thus the flow section for the water hot resulting from the more or less extensive superposition of the passage 3A of the upper disc and the second passage 2C of the lower disc, and the flow section for the cold water resulting from the more or less extensive superposition of the passage 3B of the upper disc and the second 2D passage of the lower disk. The shapes of the passages are adapted so that the flow sections of hot water and cold water are equal regardless of the relative angular position between the two discs. The flow sections vary from total closure to maximum opening, and vice versa.
When the temperature of the mixed water increases, the thermostatic element 5 is lengthened, the regulating slide 6 which is connected to it reduces the space which separates it from its seat 1F in the base of the casing 1 and increases that which separates it from its seat 2F in the lower disc 2, which decreases the flow section of the hot water and increases the flow section of the cold water; this results in a decrease in the temperature of the mixed water; the operation is reversed when the temperature of the mixed water decreases. Corrections of the water temperature mixed by the thermostatic element equilibrate until the stabilization of this temperature to a value that depends on the altitude at which the piston (normally fixed portion) of the thermostatic element 5 culminates.
The adjustment of the temperature is obtained by the rotation of the temperature control lever 7 which, by the screw-nut system, imparts a translational movement to the temperature adjustment screw 10 which causes the overtravel support 11 (both that the regulation slide 6 is not in abutment against the upper disk 3) against which the piston of the thermostatic element 5 is supported. A stop device internal to the cartridge (stop of the temperature adjustment screw 10 on the temperature control lever 7) or external (wheel adapted to the handle 7) limits the adjustment temperature to an appropriate value (for example 50 ° C or 55 ° C maximum at the "draw" point). In addition, if there is a cold water cutoff, the thermostatic element 5 is only sensitized by the hot water, the piston extends significantly, the regulating slide 6 to which it is connected moves until to come into contact with its seat 1F in the housing 1, and the overtravel support 11 moves away from the lock washer 13 by compressing the spring of sourcourse 12; this results in an automatic closing of the hot water, thus avoiding any risk of burning, which gives the cartridge a safety function against burning.
Of course, the invention is not limited to the embodiment described above and shown, and may be provided for others without departing from its scope.
For example, the embodiment of Figure 7 has a large number of points in common with the embodiment whose arrangement and operation have just been described. Thus, in this figure, elements identical or very similar to elements of the embodiment of the preceding figures have been identified by the same reference numerals, and identical elements will not be described again.
The cartridge of FIG. 7 comprises an upper disc 3 whose hot water passage 3A and the cold water passage 3B are not traversing from one of its faces to the other, and a control lever of flow 4 whose flange of the lower part 4A does not have, unlike the previous case, a hot water chamber or cold water chamber and can be reduced itself to a simple disk attached to the upper face of the upper disk 3. The operation is identical to that of the first embodiment, except that the hot water and the cold water circulate only in the passages 3A, 3B of the upper disc 3 before descending through the lower disc 2. This results in a simpler parts manufacture and assembly than for the first embodiment.
Thermostatic cartridge with ceramic discs for fluid tap, of the concentric controls quarter-turn type, comprising a regulating slide valve (6) integral with a moveable part (5A) of a thermostatic element (5) and a first and a second disc for adjusting flow rate (2, 3) which are adjoined via one of their faces, characterized in that the first disc (2) comprises two internal through-passages for hot fluid (2A, 2C) extending approximately along circumferential arcs of approximately equal radii, separated and approximately abutting, two internal through-passages for cold fluid (2B, 2D) extending approximately along circumferential arcs of approximately equal radii, separated and approximately abutting, and an internal cavity (2E) emerging into that face of the disc not adjoining the second disc and whose bottom constitutes a seat (2F) for the slide valve (6) and is in communication with one of the cold fluid passages, and the second disc (3) comprises two internal passages respectively for hot fluid and for cold fluid (3A, 3B) extending approximately along circumferential arcs and is moveable in rotation with respect to the first disc from an open position where the hot fluid passage (3A) of the second disc links the hot fluid passages (2A, 2C) of the first disc, and the cold fluid passage (3B) of the second disc links the cold fluid passages (2B, 2C) of the first disc, to a closed position where the hot fluid passage of the second disc is isolated from at least one of the hot fluid passages of the first disc and the cold fluid passage of the second disc is isolated from at least one of the cold fluid passages of the first disc, and vice versa.
Thermostatic cartridge according to Claim 1, characterized in that the respectively hot fluid and cold fluid passages (3A, 3B) of the second disc (3) are through-passages, and it comprises a flow rate control handle (4) furnished with two respectively hot fluid and cold fluid chambers (4C, 4D) opposite respectively the hot fluid and cold fluid passages (3A, 3B) of the second disc.
Thermostatic cartridge according to Claim 1, characterized in that the respectively hot fluid and cold fluid passages (3A, 3B) of the second disc (3) do not traverse this disc from one face to the other.
Thermostatic cartridge according to any one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that it comprises an annular space for the hot fluid extending around the slide valve (6) and defined by exterior surfaces of the latter and interior surfaces of a member comprising a seat (1F) for the latter and/or of a casing (1) in which the slide valve (6) and the discs (2, 3) are housed.
Thermostatic cartridge according to any one of Claims 1 to 4, characterized in that it comprises an annular space for the cold fluid extending around the slide valve (6) and defined by exterior surfaces of the latter and interior surfaces of a member (2) comprising a seat (2F) for the latter.
Thermostatic cartridge according to any one of Claims 1 to 5, characterized in that it comprises a casing (1) exhibiting as a single component a hot fluid inlet conduit (1A) and a cold fluid inlet conduit (1B) communicating respectively with a hot fluid passage (2A) and a cold fluid passage (2B) of the first disc (2) which is tied in rotation to the said casing, a hot fluid return conduit (1C) into which a hot fluid return passage (2C) of the first disc (2) emerges, a seat-forming surface (1F) for the slide valve (6) and delimiting with the latter a passage for the hot fluid coming from the first disc via the hot fluid return conduit (1C) so as to channel it to the interior of the slide valve, and an interior surface for guidance of the slide valve, and the casing (1) contains in particular the two discs (2, 3) as well as the regulating slide valve (6) and the thermostatic element (5), these being retained by a casing plug (8).
Thermostatic cartridge according to any one of Claims 1 to 6, characterized in that it comprises a turbulence creation member (14) exhibiting an interior surface of irregular shape in relation to a thermosensitive region of the thermostatic element (5).
Mixer tap furnished with a cartridge according to any one of Claims 1 to 7, characterized in that it comprises a flow rate control member integral with a handle for control of flow rate (4) of the cartridge, and a temperature control member integral with a handle for control of temperature (7) of the cartridge.
EP20020290639 2001-03-15 2002-03-13 Quarter-turn thermostatic cartridge with concentric motion, with ceramic discs, and mixing tap using such a cartridge Not-in-force EP1241385B1 (en)
FR0103557 2001-03-15
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