Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03C—DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
  • E03C1/00—Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
  • E03C1/02—Plumbing installations for fresh water
  • E03C1/04—Water-basin installations specially adapted to wash-basins or baths
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03C—DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
  • E03C1/00—Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
  • E03C1/02—Plumbing installations for fresh water
  • E03C1/05—Arrangements of devices on wash-basins, baths, sinks, or the like for remote control of taps
  • E03C1/055—Electrical control devices, e.g. with push buttons, control panels or the like

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a valve device, especially an electronic device, in particular for a sink, in particular intended to be used with a high frequency, for example in a hospital, a motorway area, places public, etc.
• Electronic sink faucet devices of this type which comprise a water circuit between a water inlet point and a water outlet point, opening control means closure of the water circuit, including a solenoid valve, the assembly being integrated into a main room called body which is attached to the basin of the sink.
• the valve device of the prior art has drawbacks.
• the body which constitutes the main part of the tap is of complex structure, to receive or form within it the various constituent elements such as the solenoid valve, the inlet, the outlet, the supply pipe, a possible device mitigating, etc.
• the operation of the faucet is defective, it is necessary to remedy the disassembly of the body of the basin, which requires a complete disconnection of all elements of the water supply network.
• the present invention aims to overcome the drawbacks of the prior art by providing a valve device, especially for washbasin, including maintenance, and in particular the possibility of accessing the various organs of the water circuit between the point of entry and the point of exit, for example the organs ensuring the opening / closing of the water circuit, is greatly facilitated over the prior art, including allowing such maintenance without having to perform a disconnection of the water supply network.
• valve device in particular an electronic sink device, in particular with a high frequency of use, which defines a water circuit between a water inlet point and a water outlet point and which comprises means for opening / closing the water circuit is as defined in claim 1, improvements being defined in the subclaims.
• an additional advantage is that it is possible to provide a plurality of shells having external aspects different from each other, corresponding to different commercial products, which can each be adapted to one and the same technical element, thus decreasing the number of references in stock.
• the implementation of new product is facilitated by the fact that one can work either on the technical element and keep the same shell, or keep the same technical element and modify the shell, This increases the possibilities of new faucets and simplifies their design and construction.
• the technical element in particular the water outlet point, is also removably attached to the water outlet opening of the shell.
• the opening / closing means of the water circuit comprise a solenoid valve.
• the base is in the form of a substantially circular disk and the means for detachably fixing the base to the opening of the base of the shell are made of, on the one hand, at least one lug, preferably several lugs, projecting laterally from the side wall of the base, and secondly from at least one groove, preferably several grooves, formed in the inner wall of the edge of the lug. the opening, the groove or grooves receiving the lug or pins to allow the removable attachment of the base to the base opening of the shell.
• each lug is disposed at a distance from the lower face of the base and each corresponding groove comprises a first section extending from the outer edge of the base opening having a transverse dimension complementary to that of the lug, on a height corresponding to the distance between the lower face of the base and the lug; and a second section of greater width than the first section, in particular with a width between 1.1 and 1.5 times the width of the first section, so that once the ergot is introduced in the first section, then slid upwards until reaching the second section, by a simple rotation of a few degrees of the hull, the lug is locked against the shoulder formed between the second section and the first section so as to block in the vertical direction any mutual relative movement between the shell and the base, a simple rotation of a few degrees in the other direction for unlocking.
• At least one protuberance preferably several protuberances, may be provided which each enters respective complementary notches, each protuberance extending over any the height of the side wall of the base, between the lower face and the upper face of the base, through holes being formed in the wall of the shell at the notches and holes being formed in each protuberance, so that when the base is inserted into the base opening, the hole or notches of the notches are in correspondence with the hole or holes of the protuberances and can then be screwed respectively by means of a screw.
• the screw allowing screwing at the holes that face each other is a screw with conical head, so that from the outside, the more one tries to unscrew it to try to To extract, the more the conical head penetrates into the hole of the notch from the inside and comes to bear against its edge, blocking even more the mutual displacement between the shell and the base.
• the shell comprises a lid.
• this cover may comprise means for removably locking the technical element to the water outlet opening of the shell, in particular the water outlet point of the technical element.
• Figure 1 is an exploded perspective view of a so-called technical element of the valve device according to one embodiment of the invention.
• Figure 2 is a view of the technical element of Figure 1 in the assembled state
• FIG. 3 is a sectional side view of a valve device of the invention consisting of the technical element of FIGS. 1 and 2 and of a hull also shown below in FIGS. 4, 7 and 10 to 14; ;
• Figure 4 is a perspective view from below of the shell of Figure 3 and the base of the technical element of Figures 1 and 2;
• Figures 5 and 6 are perspective views respectively seen from below and from above the base of Figures 1, 2 and 4;
• FIG 7 is an exploded perspective view of the various elements of the faucet device of Figure 3, with only one being omitted from the water pipe;
• FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the foam nozzle forming the water outlet point of the device of the embodiment shown in the preceding figures;
• Figure 9 is a perspective view in another direction of the frothing nozzle of Figure 8.
• Figure 10 is a side view of the shell of the device of the preceding figures.
• Figure 11 is a sectional view taken along line D-D of Figure 10;
• Figure 12 is a sectional view taken along line E-E of Figure 10;
• Figure 13 is a sectional view taken along line F-F of Figure 11;
• Figure 14 is a sectional view along line G-G of Figure 11.
• FIGs 1 and 2 there is shown a so-called technical element 1 of a device according to one embodiment of the invention.
• This device according to one embodiment of the invention consists of the technical element 1 and a covering shell 2 shown in Figures 3, 4, 7 and 10 to 14.
• FIG 1 there is shown the various components of the technical element 1 according to an exploded view.
• Figure 2 shows the same element. 1 technique of Figure 1 in the assembled state.
• the technical element 1 comprises a base 3 substantially in the form of a circular disk or slab intended to be fixed firstly to the basin of a sink and secondly removably to the inner wall of the edge 4 of a 5 opening base formed in the lower part of the shell 2.
• This base 3 is shown more precisely in Figures 5 and 6.
• the base 3 is pierced with two through holes 6 and 7 which receive two end caps 8 and 9 respectively for connection to the supply network respectively water hot and cold water by pipes (not shown in the figures) arriving from below the base 3.
• the technical element 1 comprises, following the base 3, a mixing device 10 which is fixed on the upper face of the base 3.
• this mixing device could be provided upstream of the base, that is to say at the level of the basin and a single water supply pipe, from the mixing valve at the basin, arriving in the base, instead of two ducts as following the embodiment of the invention shown in the figures.
• the present invention obviously covers these two embodiments, the water inlet point being constituted in one case of the two ends 8,9 and in the other case of a single endpiece.
• the device 10 mixer is positioned relative to the base 3 by the cooperation of three cylindrical holes 16 which cap three lugs 17 from the upper face of the base and screw which ensures the mutual attachment of the holes 16 and lugs 17.
• the mixing device further comprises a horizontal duct 18 pierced with two holes (not visible in the figures) in front of the end pieces 8 and 9 and through which the water can pass into the duct 18 where there is a mixer cylinder mixing hot and cold water from the tips 8 and 9 to allow the exit of the mixing upwards through a hole 19 opening at the top of the mixer stage 10.
• a solenoid valve 11 attached to the mixing device by means of screws 12 which penetrate into corresponding holes 13 formed on the upper face of the mixer stage 10.
• the solenoid valve extends a pipe 14 for the passage of water to a tip end 20 forming water outlet.
• the assembly 1 said technique which thus comprises a point of entry of water at the two ends 8 and 9 of water supply and a water outlet point at the end 20 forms with the shell 2 which caps a valve device according to the invention.
• the shell 2 has a lower opening 5 whose edge . 4 interior is intended to cooperate with the base 3 to ensure mutual removable attachment of the shell and the base.
• the shell 2 further comprises an opening 21 whose inner edge 22 is intended to cooperate with the nozzle 20 for mutual removable attachment of the tip and the shell.
• a hood 23 closes the interior space of the hull from above.
• the base 3 is substantially circular disk-shaped having an upper face 24, a lower face 25 and a lateral face 26.
• Three spigots 27 of rectangular shape project from the wall 26 by being substantially uniformly angularly distributed on the lateral surface 26 .
• Each lug 27 of rectangular shape is at a distance from the lower face.
• These lugs 27 are rectangular intended to cooperate with grooves 28 corresponding ⁇ formed in the inner wall of the edge 4 of the opening 5 lower the shell 2 to ensure a removable mutual attachment of the base to the hull.
• grooves 28 can in particular be seen in detail in FIGS. 11 to 14. It each comprises a first section of the same width as the width of the rectangular pin 27 which extends over a height corresponding to the distance at which the pin 27 is located on the underside 25 of the base 3.
• the groove 28 comprises, following this first section, a section of greater width than the first section and which extends over a height substantially equal to the length of the This second portion of the groove 28 having a greater width forms with the first section a shoulder 29.
• the base 3 further comprises two protuberances 30 of rectangular shape which extend over the entire height of the lateral face 26 of the base 3. These rectangular protuberances 30 are associated with complementary grooves 31 formed in the inner wall of the edge. 4 of the opening 5. These grooves 31, of complementary shape of the rectangular protuberances 24, are each pierced with respective through holes 32.
• the protuberances 30 are pierced with oblong holes 33, corresponding to the holes 32 when the protuberances 30 are in the grooves 31. can then ensure a screwing of the base 3 to the shell 2 by means of a screw (not shown) and in particular by means of screws with conical head, mounted in such a way that, from the outside, more we try to unscrew this screw to make it out of the hole 32, the more we press the conical head against the edge of the hole 32 and the more we block the mutual attachment of the base to the hull, which makes it possible to fight against people badly intentional attempting to disassemble the tap of the basin.
• Fixing the base 3 to the basin can be done, as shown in Figure 3, by means of screws 80, 81 and holes 82, 83 associated opening to the lower face of the base.
• the tip 20 forming water outlet point which is disposed at the outlet end of the pipe 14 is received in a kind of housing formed by the inner edge 22 of the opening 21 of water outlet of the shell 2
• the endpiece 20 comprises a substantially cylindrical base-shaped base portion of the lateral wall from which two diametrically opposed lugs 40 protrude which penetrate into respective grooves 41 formed in the inner wall of the edge 22.
• These grooves 41 are same type as the grooves 28 and each comprise a first section having a width substantially identical to the width of the lugs 40 and a second section of greater width which forms with the first section a shoulder.
• the two lugs 40 are placed in correspondence with the first sections, then the assembly is pushed towards the outlet 21 to ensure that the lugs reach the level the second section, moment from which the base is subjected to a slight rotation to ensure that the shoulder formed between the two sections of different widths then blocks the assembly to prevent movement in the vertical direction.
• a rectangular plate 50 which when the endpiece is locked in the vertical position by the interlocking lugs 40 grooves 41 is at a distance from an inner front wall 51 of the shell 2. It is thus formed between the front wall 51 inside the shell 2 and the plate 50 a gap.
• the cover 23 projects downwardly a plate 60 of complementary shape to this gap, so that when closing the shell 2 by the cover 23, this plate 60 from the cover 23 enters the gap between the plate 50 and the front wall 51 of the shell so as to prevent any mutual rotation between the end piece 20 and the shell 2 thus fixing in a fixed position both in translation and in rotation the endpiece 20.
• the attachment of the cover 23 to the shell is via a screw 90 and two holes 91 and 92 formed in protuberances respectively from the inner face of the cover and the inner lower face of the hull, the hole 92 formed in the hull being through.
• a water aeration washer in the form of a nozzle 70 aerator conventional in the field.

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