US1763808A

US1763808A - Fountain head

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Publication number: US1763808A
Application number: US212168A
Authority: US
Inventors: Muffly Glenn
Original assignee: COPELAND PRODUCTS Inc
Current assignee: COPELAND PRODUCTS Inc
Priority date: 1927-08-11
Filing date: 1927-08-11
Publication date: 1930-06-17
Anticipated expiration: 1947-06-17

Description

June 17, 1930. G. MUFFLY 1,763,808

FOUNTAIN HEAD Fild Aug. 11, 192'7v i SIMM 75.2717 MU@ Patented June 17, 1930 sTATEs UNITE GLENN MUFFLY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIG'rNOR` TO COPKELAND PRODUCTS, INC., A

CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN i FOUNTAIN HEAD Application nieu August 11, 1927. serial No. 212,168.

rIhis invention relates to drinking fountains and particularly to a construction therefor which may be quickly and easily changed to provide a faucet or a spout.

Another object is to provide a fountain head which may be employed as a drinking fountain or by the use of quickly insertible fittings be changed to provide a faucet.

A further object is to provide a drinking fountain that is simple in construction, eflcient in operation, economical to manufacture and which may be readily changed to provide a faucet construction in place of the drinking fountain.

The above being among the objects of the present invention, the same consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described, with reference to the accompanying drawing, and then claimed, having the above and other objects in view.

1n the accompanying drawing which illustrates a suitable embodiment of the present invention and in which like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several diderent views,-

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a drinking fountain.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the drinking fountain shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. t is a vertical sectional view taken centrally through the fountain head employed in the drinking fountain shown in the preceding figures as on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, but illustrating the manner in which the fountain head may be quickly changed to provide a 4D faucet or spout from which a cup or glass may be filled.

In the drawing is shown an elongated bowl 10 provided with a laterally extending supporting bracket 11 which may be suitably V5 secured to a supporting wall such as 12. The

bowl 10 is provided with an opening 13 in i the bottom thereof which may be suitably connected in any conventional manner to the pipe 111 for the purpose of carrying away any water finding its way into the bowl 10. The bowl 10 is also provided with an opening 15 adjacent the end of the bowl opposite the opening 13, and projecting through the opening 15 into the interior of the bowl is a nipple 16. The nipple 16 is provided with a peripheral flange 17 which bears against the upper surface of the bowl 10 about the opening 15, and a nut 18 threadably received on the nipple 16 below the bowl 10 is provided for drawing the flange 16 tightly into contact with the 'face of the bowl 10, suitable packing being provided for preventing leakage through the opening 15 about the nipple 16. An'elbow 19 is threadably secured to the lower end of the nipple 16 and in turn is threadably received in vone end of the valve 20, the other side of the valve 2O being connected by the pipe 21 to a suitable source of water supply. Threadably` received on the upper end of the nipple 16 is a casing 22 provided with a central chamber 23. The casing 22is provided with a vertically extending threaded opening 24 and an upwardly angularlyextending threaded opening 25. The interior walls of the casing 241- are formed to provide a shoulder 26 and a disc 27 provided with a rela-tively small central aperture 28 is clamped between the shoulder 26 and the upper end of the nipple 16. A plug member 29 having an extended end terminating in a tapered point 30 is threadably received in the opening 24;, the pointBO extending into adjacent relationshipV with the aperture 28 in the disc 27 .whereby to control the amount of water which may flow through the aperture 28. .-The valve 20 is preferably of that conventional type which is provided with spring `means normally tending to, close the valve against the passage of water through the same it'` being necessary to Vconstantly exert pressure on the handle of the valve in order to allow water to flow through it.

In practice the handle of the valve 2O is turned, allowing water to flow up through the nipple 16 to the disc 27, the water passing through the aperture 28 into the interior 23 of the casing 22. The pointed end 30 may be adjusted to or from the aperture 28 by simply turning the plug member 29 in order to control the rate of the flow of water into the interior ofthe casing. The water thus reaching the interior 23 of the casing 22 flows out of the casing through the opening 25 under suiicient force to be projected above the rim of the bowl 10 in such a manner that a person may intercept the path of the water with his mouth in order to obtain a drink.

If it is desired to employ the device as a faucet or spout, the disc 27 and plug 29 may be removed, a plug 3l inserted in the opening 25 and a pipe 32 provided with a reversely bent end portion 33 threaded into the opening 24 as illustrated in Fig. 5. Vhen the valve 2O is turned on when the mechanism is thus changed as indicated in Fig. 5, the water will iow through the casing 22 up through the tube 32 and downwardly out of the curved end 33 thus providing a faucet or spout in place of the fountain head whereby a glass may be positioned below the end 33 and be filled with water upon opening the valve 20. If desired a guard such as 34 projecting outwardly from the rim of the bowl l() and into spaced but adjacent relationship with the top of the casing 22, may be provided so as to prevent contact of the mouth with the casing 22 when the same is being employed as a drinking fountain, the guard 34: being provided with a notched out portion 35 within which the tube 32 is received when the construction is employed as a faucet.

In practice I prefer to ship these heads assembled as illustrated in Fig. 4 as a drinking fountain and to furnish the plug 31 and tube 33 to the purchaser whereby he may readily change the construction to serve as a faucet should such construction be more suitable for his use than would a drinking fountain.

Formal changes may be made in the specific embodiment of the invention described without departing from the spirit or substance of the broad invention, the scope of which is commensurate with the appended claims.

What I claim is:

l. A fountain head comprising an inverted generally cupshaped fitting, the open end of said tting being threaded for securement to a water passage, the bottom of said cup being provided with an angularly extending and a vertically extending opening, a plug threaded in said angularly extending opening, and a return bent tube threaded in said vertically extending opening.

2. In a fountain head, in combination, an inverted generally cup shaped casing having GLENN MUFFLY.