Patent ID: 6988669

Claim:
A thermostatic mixer valve for hot and cold water, comprising: a rotary delivery regulator device; a thermostatic bulb plated coaxially to said regulator device; a mixer control device associated with said thermostatic bulb and movable axially in relation to said delivery regulator device in response to a position of said thermostatic bulb, wherein said mixer control device and said thermostatic bulb associated are in a mixing chamber which communicates with a separate hot and a separate cold water adduction passageways and with an output mixed water passageway to a user source, and said delivery regulator device and said mixer control device are controlled separately, and said delivery regulator device and said mixer control device with relative thermostatic bulb are assembled and operative in a cartridge body to be inserted as a whole in a tap body having a means of delivering hot and cold water to said mixing chamber and a means of delivering the water towards an end user, wherein said delivery regulator device and a cup housing together define said mixing chamber and said cup housing and an external jacket together define a lateral hot and a cold water adduction passageways to said mixing chamber under a control of said rotary delivery regulator device, said delivery regulator device having a set of lateral openings which can be positioned away from or in total or partial coincidence with said hot and cold water adduction passageways, and said output passageway of the water towards an end user being at a bottom of said cup housing.