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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hermann-Josef Schneider, Schweich, DE;
Assignee:
American Standard Inc., Piscataway, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1374545 ; 13762531 ; 251208 ;
Abstract
A water valve for a sanitary fitting having a valve body containing a metal half, preferably made of brass, which contains a bearing arrangement for a spindle and a plastic half which contains two ceramic packing discs and a driving element, an inlet seal packing opposite one of the ceramic packing discs and water outlet holes. The plastic half is latched into position with the metal half whereby the metal half has a threaded surface on the lower rim of its external surface when assembled.