US1033225A

US1033225A - Shower-bath attachment.

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Publication number: US1033225A
Authority: US
Inventors: Bernard Badanes
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-07-27
Filing date: 1911-07-27
Publication date: 1912-07-23
Anticipated expiration: 1929-07-23

Description

B. BADANES.

SHQWER BATH ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1911.

Patented July 23, 1912.

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In Win tor:

-- Attyr BERNARD BADAN-ES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOWER BATH ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 27, 1911.

Patented July 23, 191 2.

Serial No. 640,755.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, BERNARD BADANES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Bronx, in the county of New York, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shower-Bath Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to shower bath attachments, andhas for its object the construction of a simple and' convenient device for regulating the flow of cold and hot water. I

p The invention consists of the hereinafter described features of construction as pointed out in the claims.

In .the drawings, the invention is embodied in a concrete and preferred form, but changes of construction may of course be made without departing from' the-legitimate and intended scope of the invention as defined in the claims.

In the said drawings: Figure 1 is a. view in front elevation showing the shower bath attachment embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1 with a section through the supporting wall. Fig. 3 is a broken detail view of the valve operating means looking in a direction opposite to that shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a sectional view through the mixing valve with the valve body in its closed position.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different views.

1 indicates a supporting wall provided with the upper bracket 2 and lower bracket 3.- Carried by the upper bracket 2 is the mixing valve 4, shower head 5 and curtain ring 6.

The mixing valve is composed of a valve casingv 7 havingv the cold water inlet 8 connected to the cold .water pipe 9 andthe hotv water inlet 10 connected to the hot water pipe 11 The valve-basing- .iurthenhasan outlet common to tidth. the hot and cold Water and connectedby meansv of the pipe 13 to the shower head .5.

In the valve casing there ..is a rotatable valve body 14 provided with amain passage 15fextendin in a vertical direction or longitudinally o th'e'axis of the rotatable valve body and connecting with the out-let.- ,T he valve body furtherIhas-twoauxiliary passages 16 and 17 spaced a distance apart circumferentially less than the distance apart of the two

inlets

8 and 10 and extend- 'ing from the main passage aforesaid.

Connected with the rotatable valve body is an upright rotatable shaft 19 secured in position by means of the pin 20. This shaft is also seated at 21 in the lower bracket 3 and'is provided with a bevel gear 22. On the lower bracket there is a' stud 23 carrying the bevel gear 24 meshing with the gear 22. Mounted on the stud 23 is a handle 25 to the back of which, gear 24 is made fast, and

this handle carries the pointer 26 positioned circumferentially with respect to the mixlng valve so as to indicate the operative position of the same on the dial 27 which latter is also mounted on the bracket 3. 28 is a member forming stops for the operating handle 25.

\Vhen the handle 25 is operated, motion will be transmitted through the shaft 19 so as to move the valve body from its closed position to the open position with the cold water inlet in'communication with the outlet. The pointer 26 will now point to the word Cold on the dial 27. Upon further operation of the handle 25, both the hot and cold water inlets will be brought into communication with the outlet, and the pointer 26 will stand opposite the word Warm on the dial 27. Still further operation of the handle 25 will close the cold water and open up the hot water fully, and the pointer 26 will now be opposite the word Hot on the dial 27.

One of the great advantages of my in 'vention resides in the fact that by placing the mixing valve overhead at ii point substantially in line with the shoit n head, it is not necessary to bring the water supply pipes down to a point within reach of the bather. Ordinarily the mixing valve (01' valves, as the case may be), is laced right in the water supply pipes so t at in order to place the mixing valve (or valves) within reach ofthe bather it has been necessary to extend the water supply pipes in an exposed condition up past the bather/ According to. myinventio-n the water supply pipes lead direct to the mixing valve, ex-" tending thereto .in substantially the same horizontal plane with the valve. The mix' ing valve is disposed overhead substantially v in withthe.ehower head, ainzl'the; mix

ing valve is operated and controlled by operating mechanism which through a suit able connection is extended down to a point within easy reach of the user. This arrangement practically eliminates all eX- posed piping; it is no longer necessary to extend the dangerous hot Water pipe up on the outside of the Wall past the bather; the Water is led direct to the mixing valve at a point closely adjacent to the shower-head so that it is not given an opportunity to cool and the whole device is much neater in appearance than the ordinary shower bath with its exposed and cumbersome system of piping, valves, etc.

What is claimed, is:

-1. The combination of an upper wall bracket, a mixing valve and a shower head carried by said bracket, a lower wall bracket, a rotatable shaft extending from the mixing valve on the upper bracket to the lower bracket and supported by the latter, and

Lessee means for turning said shaft lower bracket.

2. In a shower bath, an overhead mixing valve, an overhead shower head connected thereto, a wall bracket supporting the min ing valve and shower head, hot and cold water supply pipes leading direct to the mixing valveand extending thereto in substantially the same horizontal plane with the mixing valve, a movable valve elementto the mixing valve, and a rotatable operating rod extending from the overhead mixing valve down to a pointowithin easy reach of the bather.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York this 20th day of July A. D. 1911.

BERNARD BADANES.

Witnesses:

AXEL V. BEEKEN, LAURA E. SMITH.

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