US1647190A - Laund - Google Patents

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Patented Nov. l, 1927.

UNITED vSTATES PATENT OFFICE.`

ROBERT H. IVIlJIllll'iLER, 0F DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO. ADOLFII M'UELLER, V TRUSTEE, OF IJECAEUR,` ILLINOIS.

` `I.triennal-'ruis FAUonT.

Application filed October 17, 1925. Serial No.` 63,194.

The presentinvention relates to improvements in laundry tub faucets, particularly of that character in which a swinging nozzle is provide-d so that the faucet may deliver water to either tub of a two-tub fixture.

One ofthe objects ofthe invention is to provide a means for supporting the faucet which will not` require the employment of special attaching means on the faucet body.

Heretoforeit has been proposed to mount a faucet on a laundry tub by means of legs which required that the faucet body be provided with special lugs or attaching means for engagement therewith.

By the present invention, however, a support is provided which is adapted to engage the ordinary connection between the faucet outlet and swinging nozzle and which may be used with ordinary faucet bodies instead of requiring a special form of such body to engage the supporting devices.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan of an embodiment of the invention as applied to a laundry tray comprising two tubs or compartments.

Fio'ure 2 is an elevation of the parts shown in Figure 1 with the foot portions of the supporting yoke shown in section.

Figure 3 1s an end elevation.

Figure 4 .is a view similar to Figure 3, but showing the faucet support in reversed position.

Figure 5 is a section through the connection between the swinging nozzle and faucet outlet and the` means of engaging the support therewith.

In the several figures of the drawing corresponding parts are designated by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates the rear wall of a laundry tray which is shown as being of the type having two tubs or compartments separated by a vertical division wall 2.

The particular form of faucet illustrated comprises a relatively elongated body 3 having suitable inlets with which connect hot and cold water supply pipes 4:, 5, respectively, and a common outlet 6, with which is connected a swinging nozzle 7 Flow through the faucet is controlled by valves connected with handles 8, 8, in the usual manner. A

As the invention is adapted for use with various forms of faucet, it is not necessary to describe more in detail the particular emu bodiment illustrate-d.

y The faucet is supported from the rear wall 1 of the laundry tubs by a yoke shaped support which has an eye or passage formed in yoke shaped support are shapedto embrace theupper edge of the wall 1 of the tubs. and each is secured in position on said wall by a set screw 11. As shown, one of the lugs or jaws 12 of each foot of the supporting yoke is substantially in the vertical plane of one edge of such yoke, while the other coacting jaw or clamp member 13 is offset to a considerable extent from the yoke, being connected therewith by a horizontal member 14.

By this particular arrangement of clamping jaws the faucet may be readily positioned in substantial vertical alignment with the inner or outer edge of the rear wall of the tub. As shown in Figure 3, the faucet is arranged in substantial alignment with the inner edge of the tub wall and the offset jaw 13 engages the outer face of such wall. However, as shown in Figure 4r, the position of the yoke with respect to the tub may be readily reversed, the offset jaw 13 being positioned against the inner face of the tub wall and thereby the body of the faucet will be supported in substantial alignment with the rear edge of the tub.

In either of the two positions of the support just referred to the connection thereof with the faucet is not varied. Under both conditions the faucet is supported centrally by the yoke, the eye or passage in the head 9 receiving the connection between the faucet outlet 6 and swinging nozzle 7 at all times.

While it will be evident that the present invention does not involve any particular connection between the swinging nozzle and faucet, there is illustrated in Figure 5 a form of connection which has been found. to be very suitable. Such connection comprises a tube 1G, which is threaded into the outlet 6 of the faucet and depends therefrom, passing through the eye in the head 9 of the supporting yoke. Into said sleeve extends a tube 17 having a flange about its inner end which abuts a shoulder formed in the tube 1G. A plug 18 is threaded into the tube 16 about the tube 17 and compresses a suitable nected by a suitable threaded joint with the nozzle'- 'L Y It desired, a set screw 2O may be provided in the rear face of the head member 9 of the yoke, Which screw will engage the tube 16 of the outlet connection and effect a, rigid connection between the faucet and yoke.

y It is believed that the advantages of the invention Will be readily uppreeiated from the foregoing4 description and the drawing. It Will be seen that there is provided a Very simple vine-ans for Supportingan ordinary faucet freni a laundry tub, and that it is not necessary to provide anyspeeial means on the faucet body7 and supplemental tothe connection between its outlet and the swingingnozzle, for engaging the support7 In the drawings many ofV theparts are shown moe oi" less diagrarninatieally, and it is to be understood that there can be variation :from the exactdetails shown Without departing fom the invention.

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rlhe combination with a, faucet having: :m outlet passage extending downward :from its bodyand a. swinging nozzle eonununieating with said passage, of means for snpporting the faucet from a tub comprising it body sui'iounding and adapted to be rotated to a limited extent `relative to the outlet passage of the nozzle, and two d-iyeifging leg members formed integ'al with said body and each having` its free end biiuicated to receive the edge of a tub wall.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ROBERT n. MUELLER.

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