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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Veit Bechte, Holzwickede, DE;
Assignee:
Friedrich Grohe Armaturenfabrik GmbH & Co., Hemer, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
13762517 ; 1376254 ; 251368 ;
Abstract
A single-control valve has a normally stationary valve plate formed with hot- and cold-water inlet ports and an outlet port opening at a flat face of the valve plate and a movable control plate having a flat face lying on the valve-plate face and formed with a cavity opening at the control-plate face and juxtaposable over the ports. at least one of the plates and its surface are formed of a hard ceramic, and at least the surface of the other of the plates is formed of a low-friction synthetic resin. The low-friction synthetic resin is polyethylene or polypropylene.