US950187A - Rotatable index for cocks. - Google Patents

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US950187A
US950187A US1909532253A US950187A US 950187 A US950187 A US 950187A US 1909532253 A US1909532253 A US 1909532253A US 950187 A US950187 A US 950187A
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  • This invention relates to cocks adapted for use with hot or cold water, or with other liquids of different kinds, and the object is to provide for indicating either of a plurality of uses for which the cock may be adapted.
  • the invention is embodied in a rotatable index member, normally held against rotation between two clamping surfaces formed in or on the cock, and provided with different indications, such as words or signs, at The mode of operation is to loosen the clamping pressure on the index member, to rotate the latter until the indication descriptive or suggestive of the desired use of the cock is presented in proper position for ready observation, and to then retighten the clamp.
  • Figure l is a front elevation of a right-and-left basin cock of the Fuller type, said cock being provided with two index members, one in the body of the cock and the other in the lever handle with which the cock is supplied.
  • Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the cook shown in Fig. 1, with the index members and adjuncts thereof in central vertical section.
  • Fig. 3 is a detail in elevation of an oval index member for the cock body.
  • Fig. 41.- is a detail in elevation of the index member for the handle.
  • Fig. 5 is a lan view of the index member shown in Fig. 3.
  • Fig. 6 is a perspective detail of another form of fiat button.
  • Fig. 7 shows a spherical index which might be used for either the button or the handle.
  • the body of the cock is shown at l, and at 2 is shown a concave seat for the support of the index member 4, which is commonly called a button, and is convex on its under side if the seat is concave.
  • the seat 2 is bored and threaded, the button is bored centrally as shown at P in Fig. 5, and a bolt 10 is inserted through the button and screwed into the bore of the seat until the button is clamped in place between the seat 2 and the head 3 of the bolt.
  • the button has diiferent indications, such as words or signs, at different places around its perimeter, or around its edge if it be flat or flattened, but in any event they will not be clearly seen from above.
  • the words Hot and Cold are used in this instance, and either may be placed in position to confront the user.
  • the word Hot is presented to the front or placed in position to be readily seen, and when the cock is used for cold water the position of the button is reversed. If the cock had other uses and the button were provided with words or signs indicating such uses, the operation would obviously be the same.
  • the handle 5 has a shoulder 6 forming a seat, and a bolt rod 7 extends from the shoulder and is threaded at its end.
  • a rotary index member 8 is bored to slip over bolt 7 and is provided with indications such as the word Hot on its perimeter at one side and the word Gold at the other side.
  • a nut 9 is screwed on the threaded end of the bolt 7 to clamp the member 8 against the shoulder or seat.
  • the index member 8 form a part of the handle, its function is identical with the function of the button so far as its indexing characteristics go, and there is close mechanical similarity between the button and adjuncts and the-rotatable index member of the handle and its adjuncts.
  • the nut element of the clamp is here shown as formed in the cock body while the bolt element is separable from the cock; in the case of the handle, the bolt element of the clamp is here shown as formed on the handle while the nut element is separable.
  • the bolt element of the clamp is here shown as formed on the handle while the nut element is separable.
  • the button in Fig. 6 is polygonal-showing that it might be square, triangular, or of other desired angular contour, so long as it has indications on the perimeter or edges which stand at right angles to the bore. In this view the button is designated as possibly having four indications around its perimeter, all different.
  • the index in Fig. 7 is spherical, and could be used for the button 4 or the handle 8, according to its size and the length of its axial boreshowing that it might be round or rounded, ovoid or oval, so long as it had indications at the points which stand at right angles to the bore. In this view the same word, is designated on opposite sides of the perimeter, but, as stated above, that is immaterial. By preference all words read around the axis and not parallel with it.
  • buttons are commonly made of pottery, suitably inscribed and with a highly glazed or porcelain surface, and the maker if given the necessary details for any type of button or handle need furnish only one with several indications for the cock to which it is to be applied, rather than furnishing a plurality having different indications.
  • the manufacturer of the cock need carry in stock but a single member, instead of a plurality having different indications, and in assembling the parts it is immaterial what indications he leaves exposed. So also with the jobber and plumber.
  • the workman without special tools can quickly adjust the index so that the indication will agree with the service performed by the cock; and even afterward, if the user should, for instance, cutoff hot water and desire the indication to be Cold, he could change the index himself.
  • My U. S. Patent No. 857957 covered a fixed cock body, an index button mounted thereon for rotary adjustment, and indications on its upper face at opposite sides of its center so that either could be set toward the user and viewed from above.
  • -I hide the indication which is not to be read, by having it on the rearmost part of the index member where it is out of sight of a user looking from above or from in front.
  • Such part is, in the case of a fiat or flattened member, at its edge, and
  • the index member is not bored but is clamped in place between the parts of a separable housing, so that when the clamp is loosened the index or button can be shifted to expose through the clamp any one of several indications with which it is provided.
  • the index member is rotatable in but one plane on its own axis.
  • the combination wit-h a seat on the cock, and a rotatable index button having an axial bore and provided around its perimeter with indications of which but one at a time confronts the user and the others are hidden from him; of a nut-and-bolt clamp passing through said bore and holding the button on the seat but permitting its adjustment around its axis.

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H. MUELLER.
ROTATABLE INDEX FOR COOKS.
APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1901. RENEWED mo. 1909.
Patented Feb. 22, 1910.
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UNITED STATES PA'rE Fro.
HENRY MUELLER, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO H. MUELLER MANUFACTUR- ING COMPANY, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.
ROTATABLE INDEX FOR COCKS.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Feb. 22, 1910.
Application filed June 24, 1907, Serial No. 380,582. Renewed December 9, 1909. Serial No. 532,253.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, HENRY MUELLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Decatur, Macon county, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rotatable Indexes for Cocks; and my preferred manner of carrying out the invention is set forth in the following full, clear, and exact description, terminating with claims particularly specifying the novelty.
This invention relates to cocks adapted for use with hot or cold water, or with other liquids of different kinds, and the object is to provide for indicating either of a plurality of uses for which the cock may be adapted.
The invention is embodied in a rotatable index member, normally held against rotation between two clamping surfaces formed in or on the cock, and provided with different indications, such as words or signs, at The mode of operation is to loosen the clamping pressure on the index member, to rotate the latter until the indication descriptive or suggestive of the desired use of the cock is presented in proper position for ready observation, and to then retighten the clamp.
The invention is exemplified in the structure hereinafter described, and it is defined in the appended claims.
In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a front elevation of a right-and-left basin cock of the Fuller type, said cock being provided with two index members, one in the body of the cock and the other in the lever handle with which the cock is supplied. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the cook shown in Fig. 1, with the index members and adjuncts thereof in central vertical section. Fig. 3 is a detail in elevation of an oval index member for the cock body. Fig. 41.- is a detail in elevation of the index member for the handle. Fig. 5 is a lan view of the index member shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a perspective detail of another form of fiat button. Fig. 7 shows a spherical index which might be used for either the button or the handle.
The body of the cock is shown at l, and at 2 is shown a concave seat for the support of the index member 4, which is commonly called a button, and is convex on its under side if the seat is concave. The seat 2 is bored and threaded, the button is bored centrally as shown at P in Fig. 5, and a bolt 10 is inserted through the button and screwed into the bore of the seat until the button is clamped in place between the seat 2 and the head 3 of the bolt. The button has diiferent indications, such as words or signs, at different places around its perimeter, or around its edge if it be flat or flattened, but in any event they will not be clearly seen from above. The words Hot and Cold are used in this instance, and either may be placed in position to confront the user. When the cock is used for hot water the word Hot is presented to the front or placed in position to be readily seen, and when the cock is used for cold water the position of the button is reversed. If the cock had other uses and the button were provided with words or signs indicating such uses, the operation would obviously be the same.
The handle 5 has a shoulder 6 forming a seat, and a bolt rod 7 extends from the shoulder and is threaded at its end. A rotary index member 8 is bored to slip over bolt 7 and is provided with indications such as the word Hot on its perimeter at one side and the word Gold at the other side. Finally a nut 9 is screwed on the threaded end of the bolt 7 to clamp the member 8 against the shoulder or seat. The index member 8 form a part of the handle, its function is identical with the function of the button so far as its indexing characteristics go, and there is close mechanical similarity between the button and adjuncts and the-rotatable index member of the handle and its adjuncts. In the case of the button, the nut element of the clamp is here shown as formed in the cock body while the bolt element is separable from the cock; in the case of the handle, the bolt element of the clamp is here shown as formed on the handle while the nut element is separable. But all that is involved is a reversal of mechanical elements, and in each form the idea of a nutments of the invention and thereby more clearly defining the principle involved.
The button in Fig. 6 is polygonal-showing that it might be square, triangular, or of other desired angular contour, so long as it has indications on the perimeter or edges which stand at right angles to the bore. In this view the button is designated as possibly having four indications around its perimeter, all different. The index in Fig. 7 is spherical, and could be used for the button 4 or the handle 8, according to its size and the length of its axial boreshowing that it might be round or rounded, ovoid or oval, so long as it had indications at the points which stand at right angles to the bore. In this view the same word, is designated on opposite sides of the perimeter, but, as stated above, that is immaterial. By preference all words read around the axis and not parallel with it.
The advantages of a rotatable index when used in connection with a cock are many. These buttons are commonly made of pottery, suitably inscribed and with a highly glazed or porcelain surface, and the maker if given the necessary details for any type of button or handle need furnish only one with several indications for the cock to which it is to be applied, rather than furnishing a plurality having different indications. The manufacturer of the cock need carry in stock but a single member, instead of a plurality having different indications, and in assembling the parts it is immaterial what indications he leaves exposed. So also with the jobber and plumber. Finally, when the cock is set up for use, the workman without special tools can quickly adjust the index so that the indication will agree with the service performed by the cock; and even afterward, if the user should, for instance, cutoff hot water and desire the indication to be Cold, he could change the index himself.
My U. S. Patent No. 857957 covered a fixed cock body, an index button mounted thereon for rotary adjustment, and indications on its upper face at opposite sides of its center so that either could be set toward the user and viewed from above. In the present case -I hide the indication which is not to be read, by having it on the rearmost part of the index member where it is out of sight of a user looking from above or from in front. Such part is, in the case of a fiat or flattened member, at its edge, and
' in case of an axially elongated member is at the point most remote from its axis, and in any event is at the true perimeter as distinguished from top or bottom or any face or side of the member. This idea, moreover, is applied in the present case to the swinging handle of the cock illustrated, and in that respect differs further from my former con struction which was not capable of that use.
In a companion application filed by me this day and bearing Serial Number 580,583, the index member is not bored but is clamped in place between the parts of a separable housing, so that when the clamp is loosened the index or button can be shifted to expose through the clamp any one of several indications with which it is provided. In the present case the index member is rotatable in but one plane on its own axis. In each instance I have shown and described my index as used in connection with a cock where its indications are usually Hot or Cold or the like, but I do not mean to limit the use of the invention to this art nor confine the indications to these words.
hat is claimed as new is:
1. In a cock or the like, the combination with two clamping members forming part of the cock; of an index member rotatably adjustable on its axis and held between the clamping members and provided at diiferent places around its perimeter at points most remote from said axis with words or signs, each indicating a use for the cock, all of which are exposed but only one at a time visible to the user.
2. In a cook or the like, the combination of a bolt element and a nut element constituting a clamp carried ,by the cock, and an index member axially bored to slip onto the bolt, the index member being adapted to be held clamped between the nut and the head of the bolt and provided on its perimeter with words or signs of diiferent meaning reading around the axis, all of which are exposed but only one at a time visible to the user.
3. In a cook or the like, the combination of a bolt element and a nut element constituting a clamp carried by the cock, and an index member bored to slip onto the bolt, the index member being rotatably adjustable and adapted to be held clamped bet-ween the nut and the head of the bolt and provided around its extreme edge with indications, all of which are exposed but only one at a time visible to the user.
4. In a cock or the like, the combination wit-h a seat on the cock, and a rotatable index button having an axial bore and provided around its perimeter with indications of which but one at a time confronts the user and the others are hidden from him; of a nut-and-bolt clamp passing through said bore and holding the button on the seat but permitting its adjustment around its axis.
5. The combmatlon with a cock having a button seat bored and threaded, and a screw whose ti is adapted to engage said threaded bore; 0 a flattened index button provided around its edge with difierent indications any of which may confront the user while subscribed my signature this the 22nd day of the others are hidden from him, said button June, A. D. 1907.
being bored for the passage of the shank of the screw, capable of adjustment on it, and HENRY MUELLER 5 clamped between its head and said seat, subiVltnessesz stantially as described. PHILIP MUELLER,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto J No. L. WADDELL.
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