JP3198278U - Faucet fitting with plug - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a faucet joint with a plug that can reduce the time required for repair work of a water supply pipe and reduce the construction cost when it is difficult to specify a water leakage point of the water supply pipe. A faucet side opening 10a for communicating a discharge faucet 15 removed from a faucet joint 16 is formed at one end of a body A of a faucet joint 10 with a plug, and the other end of the body A is provided. A pipe-side opening 10b that communicates with a newly installed water supply pipe is formed in the section, and a water stop plug 20 that projects the water-stopper plug 16 from which the discharge faucet 15 is removed is provided in the body A. The existing water supply pipe in which the discharge faucet 15 is communicated through the water tap joint 16 is left untouched, and the plug-equipped water faucet joint 10 is used for pipe repair work for newly installing another water supply pipe. [Selection] Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a faucet joint with a plug, and more particularly to a faucet joint with a plug used for repair work when a water leak occurs in a water supply pipe for a discharge faucet.

For example, in many gardens and parks, faucet pillars are installed to supply water to flowers and trees. This faucet column has a cylindrical support column in which the lower end portion is embedded in the ground, a vertical pipe accommodated in the internal space of the cylindrical support column, a discharge faucet protruding from the side surface of the upper end portion of the cylindrical support column, The faucet joint that connects the upper end of the vertical pipe and the discharge faucet, the water supply pipe that is buried in the ground and introduces water (tap water) to the vertical pipe, and the lower end of the vertical pipe and the water supply pipe communicate with each other And a piping joint.
As a conventional faucet joint, for example, a general elbow or a socket disclosed in “Water faucet column” of Patent Document 1 is known.

JP 2011-179270 A

By the way, the water supply pipes buried in the ground for many years may become obsolete and partly corrode to cause water leakage. At that time, the ground is dug to expose the water supply pipe and the location of the water leakage is specified, and then a leakage prevention treatment is taken at this location. However, it is difficult to specify the location of the water leakage, and there are many cases where the ground must be dug up over substantially the entire length of the water supply pipe. At that time, it took time for repair work, and the construction cost was also rising.
Such a problem is the same for water supply pipes piped in the walls, floors, and ceilings of buildings in order to supply water to discharge faucets in kitchens and bathrooms. In other words, a part of the building wall, floor, or ceiling was broken along the embedded piping to find the location of water leakage. As a repair method that does not break the wall, for example, a new water supply pipe is provided along the surface of the wall, a discharge water tap is connected to the water supply pipe via a new water tap joint, and the opening of the existing water tap joint is opened. It is conceivable to close the hole with a single water stop plug and fill the mounting hole of the discharge faucet that appears on the wall with caulking material. However, this method reduces the design of the wall after repair, increases the number of work steps, and requires both a water stop plug and a faucet joint.

  Therefore, as a result of diligent research, if the inventor cannot easily find the leakage point of the water supply pipe, leave the leaked water supply pipe and install another water supply pipe. By connecting the removed discharge faucet and the newly installed water supply pipe with a faucet joint with a plug, and closing the faucet joint opening with a water stop plug of the faucet joint with a plug, all the above-mentioned problems are eliminated. We have found out that this has been completed.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a faucet joint with a plug that can shorten the time required for repair work of the water supply pipe and can reduce the work cost when it is difficult to specify the location of the water leak in the water supply pipe.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the existing water supply pipe connected with the discharge faucet via the water tap joint is left as it is, another water supply pipe is newly installed, and the discharge water tap is connected to the other water supply pipe. The plug faucet joint is used for pipe repair work in which a discharge faucet is provided at the same location, and the faucet side opening to which the discharge faucet is attached to one end of the trunk portion A pipe-side opening to which the other water supply pipe is connected is formed at the other end portion, and a water stop plug that closes the opening of the faucet joint from which the discharge faucet has been removed is protruded from the trunk portion. It is a faucet joint with a plug.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, for example, when it is difficult to identify the leakage point of the water supply pipe in a bathroom, etc., the water supply pipe embedded in the wall is dug out to identify the water leakage point, and this is closed and buried. Rather than returning it, leave the leaked water supply pipe as it is and leave it alone and install another water supply pipe (pipe exposed from the wall). Then, the faucet joint from which the discharge faucet has been removed (opening of the existing water supply pipe) is closed with a water stop plug, and this removed discharge faucet is connected to and connected to the faucet side opening of the body, and a new water supply Connect the pipe to the pipe side opening of the trunk.
As a result, when it is difficult to identify the water leakage point of the water supply pipe, it is not necessary to perform an operation of exposing the existing water pipe from substantially the entire length of the water supply pipe, for example, from the ground or inside the wall to find the water leakage point. As a result, it is possible to shorten the time for repair work of the water supply piping and to reduce the construction cost.

The material of the water supply pipe is arbitrary. For example, various metals and various synthetic resins can be employed.
As for existing water supply pipes, it is more appropriate to use outdoor pipes that are buried at least partially in the ground, or pipes that are buried at least partially inside indoor walls, floors, or ceilings. The effect of this is remarkable and preferable.
What is discharged from the discharge faucet through the water supply pipe may be water (tap water) or hot water.
The kind of discharge faucet is not limited. For example, it may be an outdoor discharge faucet used for a faucet pillar standing in a garden or a park, or an indoor discharge faucet installed in a kitchen or bathroom. The discharge faucet may be a single discharge faucet or a mixed discharge faucet that mixes water and hot water.

The plug faucet here refers to a special type of pipe used for repairing a discharge faucet pipe where a leaked water supply pipe is closed with a water stop plug, and another water supply pipe is newly installed. It is a joint.
For example, various metals and various synthetic resins can be used as the material of the plug faucet joint.
For example, an elbow, a socket, or cheese can be adopted as the type of the faucet joint with plug, and the number of openings is two or more including at least a faucet side opening and a pipe side opening.
The plug faucet joint has a body portion as a main body, and one of an outer screw and an inner screw is arbitrarily formed at one end portion and the other end portion of the body portion.
The protruding position in the trunk of the faucet joint with plug is arbitrary.
The shape, size, and formation direction (length direction) of the water stop plug are appropriately changed according to the opening of the existing water faucet joint to be closed.
The water stop plug may be provided so as not to be separable from the body portion or may be provided so as to be detachable.

In the invention according to claim 2, the water faucet joint with a plug includes an elbow in which the water stop plug protrudes from a bent portion of the trunk portion, and the stopper at an intermediate portion in the longitudinal direction of the trunk portion. A socket with a water plug projecting, and one of the cheeses in which one end of the water stop plug is inserted into any one of the three ends of the body. 1 is a faucet joint with a plug according to 1.
In a cheese faucet joint with a plug, as a method of inserting one end of a water stop plug into an opening of any one of the three end portions of the body, for example, a water stop A method of screwing the plug into a blind nipple can be employed. The water stop plug may be fixed to the body or detachable.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when it is difficult to identify the water leakage location of the water supply pipe, the water supply pipe that has leaked water is left alone and another water supply pipe is newly installed. At that time, the opening of the faucet joint from which the discharge faucet has been removed is closed by the water stop plug of the faucet joint with plug, and the discharge faucet removed from this faucet joint is communicated with the faucet side opening of the trunk, A new water supply pipe is connected to the pipe side opening of the trunk.
As a result, when it is difficult to identify the location of water leakage in the water supply piping, it is not necessary to expose the existing water pipe over almost the entire length of the water supply piping and to find the location of the water leakage. Since it is good, it is possible to shorten the time for repair work of the water supply pipe, and as a result, it is possible to reduce the construction cost.

It is a perspective view of the faucet joint with a plug concerning Example 1 of this device. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the use condition of the faucet joint with a plug concerning Example 1 of this device. It is a perspective view of another faucet joint with a plug concerning Example 1 of this device. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of another faucet joint with a plug concerning Example 1 of this device.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described. Here, an elbow-type plug faucet joint applied to a faucet column installed outdoors is taken as an example.

1 and 2, reference numeral 10 denotes a faucet joint with a plug according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The faucet joint with a plug 10 is embedded in the ground in a faucet column 11 installed in a home garden. The water supply pipe 12 that has been leaked is left as it is, and is used at the time of pipe repair work for newly installing another water supply pipe 12A.
Hereinafter, these components will be specifically described.
The faucet column 11 includes a rectangular cylindrical column 13 in a plan view in which the lower end is embedded in the ground, a vertical pipe 14 accommodated in the internal space of the cylindrical column 13, and an upper end of the cylindrical column 13. A discharge faucet 15 protruding from the side surface, a faucet joint 16 communicating the upper end portion of the vertical pipe 14 and the discharge faucet 15, and the water supply pipe 12 embedded in the ground and introducing water into the vertical pipe 14. And a pipe joint 17 that communicates the lower end portion of the vertical pipe 14 and the water supply pipe 12.

The cylindrical support 13 is a rectangular cylindrical case made of synthetic resin in plan view.
The discharge faucet 15 is a single discharge faucet that discharges tap water drawn into a house.
The discharge faucet 15 is provided with a handle 18 for adjusting the discharge amount of water at the upper part of the body part, and a discharge pipe 19 is communicated with the tip part (downstream part) of the body part.
The faucet joint 16 is a metal elbow, and an opening at one end thereof is arranged with an opening surface aligned with a communication hole 13 a formed on one side surface of the upper end portion of the cylindrical column 13.
The vertical pipe 14 is a vertically extending metal pipe having substantially the same length as the cylindrical support 13. The vertical pipe 14 is communicated with the water supply pipe 12 by the pipe joint 17, and can be said to be an extended part of the water supply pipe 12.
The water supply pipe 12 is a long metal pipe that is embedded in the ground and communicates with a water pipe drawn in a house and a base portion.
The pipe joint 17 is made of a metal elbow, and communicates the opening at the front end of the water supply pipe 12 with the opening at the lower end of the vertical pipe 14.

Next, the faucet joint with plug 10 will be described with reference to FIG.
The faucet joint with plug 10 is an elbow-type metal joint, and has a trunk portion A bent in an inverted L shape as a main body.
A faucet side opening 10a through which the discharge faucet 15 removed from the faucet joint 16 communicates is formed at one end of the body A, and a new (another) water supply is provided at the other end of the body A. A pipe side opening 10b through which the pipe 12A communicates is formed.
At one end of the body portion A, an inner screw 10c is formed which is screwed into an outer screw 15b of the water guide portion 15a protruding from the base portion of the discharge faucet 15. The other end of the body A is formed with another internal screw 10d that is screwed into an external screw 14a formed on the outer peripheral surface of the upper end of another vertical pipe 14A.

Further, a water stop plug 20 that closes the opening of the existing water faucet joint 16 from which the discharge faucet 15 is removed is provided on the outer side surface of the bent portion of the body portion A (the surface on the side having the larger curvature radius in FIG. 1). The body A is made of the same material and is integrally projected. The length direction of the water stop plug 20 is an extension direction of the axis of one end portion of the body portion A. An outer thread 20 a that is screwed into an inner thread 16 a formed on the inner peripheral surface of one end of the existing water faucet joint 16 is formed at the tip of the water stop plug 20.
Note that the plug-equipped water faucet joint 10 is not limited to this elbow type, and for example, a socket-type water faucet with a plug in which inner screws 10e are formed at both ends of the body B having a straight axis shown in FIG. The joint 10A may also be a cheese-type faucet joint with plug 10B having internal threads 10f formed at three ends of the T-shaped body C shown in FIG. In the case of the cheese-type water faucet joint with plug 10B, a blind nipple in which an external screw 21a is formed at both ends of one of the three end portions existing in the body portion C in advance. (Water stop plug) 21 is used by screwing one end.

Next, with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the pipe repair work of the faucet column 11 using the faucet joint with plug 10 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described.
When the water supply pipe 12 leaks and the location of the water leak cannot be specified, the plug-fitted water faucet joint 10 is used, and the existing water supply pipe 12 that has leaked is left (filled), and another water supply pipe 12A is connected. The pipe repair work for the new faucet column 11 will be carried out.
Specifically, first, another water supply pipe 12 </ b> A is newly installed along the ground (or buried in the ground), and the discharge faucet 15 is removed from the faucet joint 16 of the faucet column 11. Thereby, the opening of the one end part of the existing faucet joint 16 is exposed from the communication hole 13 a at the upper end part of the cylindrical support column 13.
Thereafter, another vertical pipe 14A is erected along one side surface of the cylindrical column 13, and the lower end portion of the vertical pipe 14A and the tip end portion (downstream portion) of the water supply pipe 12A are communicated with each other by another pipe joint 17A. .

Next, the water stop plug 20 of the faucet joint with plug 10 is screwed into the opening of the existing faucet joint 16 to close it. Thereafter, the water guide portion 15a of the removed discharge faucet 15 is screwed into the faucet side opening 10a of the trunk portion A, and the discharge faucet 15 and the faucet joint with plug 10 are communicated. Further, by screwing the upper end portion of the newly installed vertical pipe 14A into the pipe-side opening 10b of the trunk A, the discharge faucet 15 and the plug faucet 10 with plug, the vertical pipe 14A, and another pipe joint 17A It communicates with the new water supply pipe 12A.
As a result, even if it is difficult to identify the location of water leakage in the existing water supply pipe 12, it is unnecessary to dig up (expose) the water pipe over almost the entire length of the water supply piping 12, which has been conventionally performed, and find the water leakage location. It becomes. As a result, the repair work time of the water supply pipe 12 can be shortened, and as a result, the construction cost can be reduced.

  The water faucet joint with a plug of this device is useful as a technique for repairing a pipe when a water leak occurs in a water supply pipe for a discharge faucet.

10, 10A, 10B faucet joint with plug,
10a faucet side opening,
10b Pipe side opening,
12 Water supply piping,
12A Another water supply pipe,
15 Discharge faucet,
16 faucet fittings,
20, 21 water stop plug,
A, B, C Body.

Claims (2)

A faucet joint with a plug that is used in a pipe renovation work that leaves an existing water supply pipe connected to a discharge faucet via a water faucet joint and newly installs another water supply pipe,
A faucet side opening communicating with the discharge faucet removed from the faucet joint is formed at one end of the body part, and a pipe side opening communicating with the other water supply pipe is formed at the other end part of the body part. And a plug faucet joint provided with a water stop plug protruding from the body portion to close the opening of the faucet joint from which the discharge faucet has been removed.   The water faucet joint with a plug includes an elbow in which the water stop plug protrudes from a bent portion of the body portion, a socket in which the water stop plug protrudes from an intermediate portion in the length direction of the body portion, and the body The faucet joint with a plug according to claim 1, which is any one of cheeses in which one end of the water stop plug is inserted into any one of the three ends of the portion.

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