Patent ID: 6942195

Claim:
A valve for a water faucet comprising: a barrel having a closed upper end, an open lower end, an inlet defined at the upper end and axially through the barrel; a valve core positioned in the barrel and having a seat having a disk received in the barrel from the open lower end, a hole defined through the disk, multiple holes defined around the hole; a tube inserted through the hole, multiple first ribs evenly and separately formed at an inner wall of the tube, multiple channels respectively defined between adjacent first ribs, multiple first bevel edges respectively formed at the top ends of the first ribs; an outer rod having a first tubular part extending in the tube, multiple ratchets formed at an upper end of the outer rod with the same bevel as the first bevel edges and a circumferential position offset between corresponding ratchets and bevel edges, and multiple first lugs formed at an outer periphery of the outer rod and respectively located in the channels; an inner rod having a second tubular part extending in the outer rod, multiple second lugs formed at an outer periphery of the inner rod for corresponding to the first lugs, and each second lug having a second bevel edge formed at a bottom of the second lug and with the same bevel configuration as the ratchet and the first bevel edge; and a spindle having a lower segment inserted in the inner rod, an upper segment extending through the inlet, multiple second ribs formed at an outer periphery of the upper segment, and a head formed at a top end of the spindle for blocking the inlet; and a bottom cap mounted in the barrel and beneath the seat and having an opening defined through the bottom cap for receiving the tube of the seat, and multiple outlets defined around the opening.