US1718744A

US1718744A - Flush-tank valve

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Publication number: US1718744A
Application number: US191850A
Authority: US
Inventors: Koropczyk Anton
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1927-05-16
Filing date: 1927-05-16
Publication date: 1929-06-25
Anticipated expiration: 1946-06-25

Description

- A. KOROPCZYK FLUSH TANK VALVE Filed llay 16, 1927 Patented June 25, 1929. v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.AIWJIOJSI' KOROPCZYK, OF NATRONA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FLUSH-TANK VALVE.

Application filed May' 16, 1927. Serial No. 191,850.

The present invention is directed to imthe link 11, the lower end of said link being provements in flush tank valves. provided with an eye 1L- for engagement 45 The primary object of the invention is to with the stem 7. By providing the stem provide a device of this cl'iaracter so con- 7 with the weight 8 it will be obvious that structed that the controlling valve will opcras soon as the control handle is released ale to close the discharge pipe without disthe weight will cause the valve 3 to imcharging the entire contents ot the tank into m ediately seat upon the upper end of the 50 the .1 b l pipe 2, and in this manner the amount of Another object of the invention to prowater discharged from the tank can be con- 10 vide a device of this character so constructed veniently regulated.

that it can be easily and conveniently in- Inl igure 3 the stem 13 is jtorn'ied from sec stalled upon tanks already in use, the contions let and 15, the latter section having a 55 struction being extremely simple, and conweigl'itlfi carried thereby and forming an sequent-1y can he manutactured at a very integral part thereof for threaded engage- 15 small cost. ment with the lower end of the sect-ion 14. \Vith these and other objects in View, this In this manner the sections 14.- and 15 can be invention resides in the'novel features of readily disengaged, thus permitting the sec- 60 construction,formation, combination and artion 14 to be drawn through the eye 12 rangement of parts to be hereinafter more of the arm 11. Since the arm 5 is removfully described, claimed and illustrated in able from the pipe 4;, the section 15 can he the accompanying drawing, in which, lifted tl'lercwith, whereupon the section 15 Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view can he slid through the guide 6 of the arm through a flush tank, showing the same upon removal of the valve It will thus equipped with the device. be seen that the stem section 141- can be re- 25 Figure 2 is a perspective view ot the valve moved without opening or distorting the stem. eyes 7 and 12. The weight 16 not only serves Figure 3 is a fragmentary detail view 11 function but also provides a relatively showing a modified form of the invention. large and strong connection between the sec- Referring to the drawing, 1 designates tions 1 1 and 15. 0 the flush water tank, 2 the discharge pipe, Having thus described the invention, I

the upper end of which constitutes a seat claim: for the float valve 3, all of which are of the The combination with a flush tank having 7 usual construction. The pipe 2 as usual has a discharge pipe, a valve for controlling the connected thereto the overflow pipe 4:, to discharge of water through said pipe, a stem 35 which is secured an arm 5 having a guide 6 for the valve consisting of upper and lower in which slides the stem 7, the lower end sections, a weight formed integral upon the of which is secured to the valve 8, the upper upper end of the lower section, the upper end thereof being provided with an eye 7. section having its lower end threaded in This stem has fixed thereto a weight 8, the the weight and alined with the lower section, purpose of which will he later explained. and l'neans for operating the stem.

Carried by the tank is a control handie In testimony whereof I allix my signature. having an arm 10 fixed thereto, to the inner end of which is pivoted the upper end of AN TON KOROPCZYK. [n s]