US3722692A - Drain fitting for a bath tub - Google Patents

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US3722692A
US3722692A US00159677A US3722692DA US3722692A US 3722692 A US3722692 A US 3722692A US 00159677 A US00159677 A US 00159677A US 3722692D A US3722692D A US 3722692DA US 3722692 A US3722692 A US 3722692A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03C—DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
    • E03C1/00—Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
    • E03C1/12—Plumbing installations for waste water; Basins or fountains connected thereto; Sinks
    • E03C1/22—Outlet devices mounted in basins, baths, or sinks
    • E03C1/23—Outlet devices mounted in basins, baths, or sinks with mechanical closure mechanisms
    • E03C1/232—Outlet devices mounted in basins, baths, or sinks with mechanical closure mechanisms combined with overflow devices

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  • a drain fitting for a bath tub or the like has four ports.
  • the first port of the installed fitting leads into the bottom of the tub, a second port is connected with a pump that discharges water from the tub through a shower head, a third port is connected with the overflow of the tub, and a fourth port leads to the drain.
  • a partition in the shell of the fitting is provided with a valve seat and separates the first and second ports from the third and fourth ports when the valve seat is sealed by a plug.
  • a second valve seat in the first port may receive a filter carrier equipped with a coarse filter and a fine filter.
  • the plugand the filter carrier are provided with threads which permit the plug to be attached to the filter carrier and to block passages in the same so as to close the first port and hold water in the tub.
  • This invention relates to drain fittings for bath tubs and the like,and particularly to a drain fitting for a bath tub from which water may optionally be drawn by a circulating pump for discharge from a shower head.
  • the known fittings which permit the tub to be used alternatively for a bath or as a source of circulating water for the shower head are complex and do not permit a quick change from one mode of operation to the other followed by draining of the used water.
  • the object of the invention is the provision of a drain fitting which may be connected simultaneously to a bath tub, to a circulating pump, and to a drain and permits the same body of water to be used sequentially for a bath and for a shower in a simple and convenient manner.
  • the invention provides a fitting whose shell contains an internal partition dividing the cavity in the shell into two compartments.
  • the shell has four ports of which the first and second lead into one of the compartments, the third and fourth into the other.
  • the partition is formed with a first valve seat connecting the compartments.
  • a second valve seat is provided in the first port.
  • a filter carrier may be moved by an operating device inward of the first port into an operating position, and outward of the port away from the operating position in which it conformingly engages the second valve seat.
  • a passage through the filter carrier is blocked by a filter to particles which exceed a certain size, and the passage has an orifice in a face of the carrier which is directed inward of the one compartment in the operative position of the carrier.
  • a plug member shaped for conforming sealing engagement with the valve seat in the partition may be releasably fastened to the filter carrier so that it seals the orifice of the passage in the carrier while being remote from the first valve seat.
  • FIG. 1 shows a drain fitting of the invention in elevational section
  • FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the fitting of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the filter carrier of the same fitting in plan view
  • FIG. 4 shows a modified valve seat insert in tional section
  • FIG. 5 is a partly exploded view of a modified plug assembly for the fitting of the invention.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a bath tub equipped with a drain fitting including the valve seat insert of FIG. 4 and the plug assembly of FIG. 5 in fragmentary elevational sec tron.
  • a drain fitting having a shell whose cavity is divided into two elevacompartments by a partition 21 provided with a conically tapering valve seat 22.
  • An upwardly directed port in the shell 20 is provided with a threadedly mounted valve seat insert 2 whose bore has a wall portion 1 tapering conically inward of the shell 20 and followed by a flaring wall portion 11.
  • the bore of the insert 2 communicates with the bottom of the bath tub in the installed condition of the fitting.
  • the overflow of the bath-tub is connected to another port of the shell 20 by a threaded, integral nipple 12 of the fitting, and yet another nipple 13 is connected to the suction intake of a non-illustrated circulating pump for the shower head above the tub.
  • the compartment of the shell 20 into which the nipple 12 leads is permanently open to a drain nipple 14 on yet another port of the shell 20. The other two ports are disconnected from the drain nipple 14 when the valve seat 22 is sealed.
  • the plug assembly which holds the water in the tub, not itself seen in FIG. 1, includes a filter carrier 3 shown in sealing engagement with the second valve seat provided by the lowermost part of the wall portion '1.
  • the filter carrier 3 has the shape of a dish whose bottom is reduced to three radial ribs integral with anlinternally threaded sleeve 5 coaxial with the frustoconi-- cal rim of the dish, as is best seen in FIG. 3.
  • a filter disc 4 is set into the dish and blocks the passages 23 between the ribs to particles exceeding a size selected smaller than the openings in the non-illustrated shower head.
  • the orifice of the passages 23 in the flat bottom face of the filter carrier 3 are sealed by a plug 6 fastened to the filter carrier 3' by a threaded pin 7 fixed on the plug and matingly received in the lower end of the sleeve 5.
  • a conical circumferential face of the plug 6 is shaped for sealing engagement with the valve seat 22 when released from the filter carrier 5, as. shown in FIG. 1 in broken lines.
  • a dished, perforated plate 9 is'provided with an externally threaded, tubular stud 9 which is received in the upper end of the sleeve 5.
  • a bead chain 8 is attached to the pin 7 in the bore of the sleeve 5 and passes through the stud 9'.
  • the plate 9 carries a coarse filter or screen 10.
  • the plug assembly 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 retains water in the tub for a bath. Excess water may flow fromtheoverflow of the tub through the nipples 12, 14 to the drain.
  • the plug assembly together with the plate 9 and the coarse filter or screen 10 may be lifted from the valve seat insert 2 by means of the operating chain 8.
  • the plug assembly When it is desired to take a shower, the plug assembly is lifted from the shell 20 by means of the chain 8, the pin 7 is unscrewed from the sleeve 5, and the plug 6 is dropped into the valve seat 22, as is shown in broken lines. The remainder of theplug assembly is returned to the illustrated operative position.
  • the circulating pump When the circulating pump is energized, water is drawn from the pump through the coarse filter or screen 10, through the finer filter 4, and through the nipple 13 to reach the tub again through the shower head.
  • FIGS. 4 to 6 illustrate a valve seat insert 2' provided with a circumferential flange 15 which provides firm anchorage .for molding the insert 2' into a plastic tub 16.
  • the valve seat 2 not otherwise different, is preferred for use with a metal tub whose bottom is clamped between the flaring upper end of the insert 2 and the shell 20.
  • the pin 7 of the plug 6 is provided with a fixedly fastened, coaxial operating rod 8 which passes through the sleeve 5, the tubular stud 9, and a guide bore in the tub 16.
  • the upper end of the operating rod 8' not seen in the drawing, carries a knob or handle. 7
  • the drain fitting may be made ready for shower operation by turning the handle or knob on the rod 8 i to unscrew. the plug 6-from' the carrier 3, and by depressing the rod 8 when the plug is free from the sleeve .to'position the plug in the valve seat 22 of the partition, not itself seen in FIGS. 4 to 6. Water escapes from the tub during this operation only through a narrow gap opening between the apertured bottom face of the filter carrier 3 during the unscrewing of the plug.
  • T o revert to a tub bath, the steps described in the preceding paragraph are, taken in reverse order.
  • the rod-8 is pulled up to lift the entire plug assembly, the plate 9 and the coarse filter or screen 10 from the valve seatinsert 2.
  • a drain fitting for a bath ing in combination: I
  • a shell defining a cavity therein; b. a partition in said shell dividing said cavity into two compartments,
  • saidshell being formed with at least three ports
  • tub and the like comprising a first port and a second port leading into one of said compartments, the third port leading into the other compartment, 2.
  • said partition eing formed with a first valve seat connecting said compartments;
  • valve seat means defining a second valve seat in said first port;
  • a filter carrier formed with a passage therethrough; e. a'filter member mounted on said carrier and blocking said passage to particles exceeding a predetermined size; f. operating means for moving said filter carrier inward of said first port into an operating position and outward of said first port and away from said operating position,
  • said filter carrier when in said operating position, conformingly engaging said second valve seat, and a face of said filter carrier being directed inward of said one compartment, said passage having an orifice in said face;
  • a plug member shaped for conforming sealing engagement with said first valve seat
  • a fitting as 'set forth in ciaim 1 wherein said valve seats are aligned in the direction of movement of the filter carrier into and out of said operating position.
  • valve seat means includes a valve seat insert mounted in said first port and formed with a bore leading into said one compartment, a first portion of said bore tapering inward of said cavity, and a second portion of said bore flaring from said first portion inward of said cavity, said insert constituting said second valve seat in said first portion of the bore thereof.
  • said operating means include 'an elongated operating member having a longitudinal axis and an end portion attached to said plug membensaidfilter carrier being formed with a bore receiving said operating member.

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