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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1996
John E Bertrand, Fairview Park, OH (US);
Lee A Mercer, Valley City, OH (US);
Thomas H Burchard, Winchester, MA (US);
Gregory Hunter, Westwood, MA (US);
John Lofgren, Glendale, WI (US);
Henry N Wagner, Cedar Grove, WI (US);
Kevin M Johnson, Natick, MA (US);
Jeffery Karg, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Moen Incorporated, North Olmsted, OH (US);
Abstract
A faucet having multiple water discharges includes a housing, an input water connection for the housing, a stream discharge on the housing, a spray discharge on the housing, a filtered water discharge on the housing, a water filter within the housing, and a control valve in the housing connected to each of the water discharges. There is an unfiltered water flow path from the input water connection to the control valve. A manual actuator accessible from the exterior of the housing operates the control valve to direct water from the unfiltered water flow path to either the stream discharge or the spray discharge. There is a filtered water flow path from the input water connection, through the filter, to the control valve. A filtered water manual actuator accessible from the exterior of the housing operates the control valve to direct filtered water to the filtered water discharge.