Masco Corporation of Indiana

Delta Faucet Company

Masco Corporation

Alfred C. Nelson

Darrell Scott Crowe

Steven Kyle Meehan

Garry Robin Marty

Kurt Judson Thomas

Kyle Robert Davidson

Seth A Fritz

Derek Allen Brown

Jeffrey Lee Moore

Brian Alan Enlow

Gerald Robert Hayes

Christopher Michael McGuire

Brian Jolliffe

Celine Kwok Garland

Alfred Charles Nelson

Mark Cipriani

Curtis H Harris

David M Hardesty

Stephen Boedicker

Brian Matthew Jolliffe

Christopher Michael Mcguire

Steven K Meehan

Celine Kowk Garland

Seth Fritz

A housing fluidly coupled to an inlet tube received within a faucet delivery spout. The housing receives a flow modifying device (e.g., an aerator or a stream straightener), and includes a first baffle and a second baffle to provide a desired water flow to the flow modifying device.

Housing for a flow modifying device

A valve assembly of a faucet includes a valve body, a valve cartridge received within the valve body and including a valve stem defining a longitudinal axis, and a handle operably coupled to the valve stem of the valve cartridge. Illustratively, a spring biases splines of a valve stem adapter downwardly into engagement with splines of the valve stem.

Spring adjustable handle for faucet valve assembly

A valve assembly for a faucet includes a valve body, a valve cartridge received within the valve body and including a valve stem defining a longitudinal axis, a handle operably coupled to the valve stem of the valve cartridge, and a magnetic coupling operably coupled between the valve body and the handle. A spring biases the magnetic coupling downwardly toward the valve body, and biases the downwardly facing surface supported by the handle downwardly toward an upwardly facing surface supported by the valve body.

Valve assembly including magnetic handle retention with spring assist

A faucet includes a sprayhead removably supported by a positioning arm. The positioning arm is articulated to provide multiple degrees of freedom.

Faucet with articulating arm

A faucet mounting system includes an upper fixture including an outer wall defining a chamber, and at least one groove formed within an inner surface of the outer wall. A lower mounting shank extends below the upper fixture and includes a skirt, a post extending downwardly from the skirt, and at least one spring clip. The at least one spring clip is recessed within an outer surface of the skirt in a compressed position, and extending outside of the outer surface of the skirt in an extended position.

Snap in mounting shank for a faucet

A fluid delivery device including a valve body fluidly coupled to an electrically insulating waterway assembly. The waterway assembly may include a molded base, and a capacitive sensor may be electrically coupled to the valve body.

Mixing valve including a molded waterway assembly

A faucet spout mounting assembly includes a mounting hub, a spout supported for rotation relative to the mounting hub, a retaining member configured to restrain axial movement of the spout relative to the mounting hub, and a biasing member configured to provide an axial load between the spout and the mounting hub.

Spout mounting assembly

A faucet including a spout body formed of metal and having an inlet end, an outlet end and a chamber extending between inlet and outlet ends. A tube formed of a non-metallic material is enclosed within the chamber and has receiving and dispensing ends. Tube defines a passage extending between receiving and dispensing ends. Receiving end is in fluid communication with water source to communicate water through passage. An inlet coupling formed of a non-metallic material and having an inlet opening extending therethrough is molded about receiving end such that receiving end is sealingly received within inlet opening. An outlet coupling formed of a non-metallic material and having an outlet opening extending therethrough is molded about dispensing end such that dispensing end is sealingly received within outlet opening. Inlet and outlet couplings are sealingly coupled to inlet and outlet ends of spout body, respectively.

Faucet spout with water isolating couplings

A fluid delivery device including a valve body fluidly coupled to an electrically insulating waterway assembly. The waterway assembly may include a molded base.

A fluid dispenser system includes a container that is mounted below a mounting surface for containing a fluid. A base is mounted above the mounting surface, and the base defines an opening configured to allow passage of the fluid when filling the container. A dispenser body is detachably coupled to the base to allow removal of the dispenser for filling the container with the fluid from above the mounting surface. The dispenser body has a moveable handle that is moveable for manually pumping the fluid and a fixed spout that is fixed in position relative to the mounting surface when the fluid is dispensed from the spout.

Stationary soap dispenser assembly

Retainer clip

In a pull-out spray head faucet or hand shower an insert is disposed in the tube spout to keep the pull-out spray head or wand from wobbling when it is seated in the tube spout. The insert is generally tubular and is shaped and sized to fit into the tube spout. The insert has two opposed tabs on the interior walls which engage two wings on an adapter which is mounted in the wand, thereby securing the adapter and wand against wobble.

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Lebanon, IN, United States of America

Darrell Scott Crowe