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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2001
Mark Weaver, Six Mile, SC (US);
T&S Brass and Bronze Works, Inc., Travelers Rest, SC (US);
Abstract
A fluid flow control device is provided as an integral component of a drainage system for sinks in a commercial environment. This fluid flow control device includes a housing that is disposed beneath a waste valve and configured to define a flow control insert that is configured and disposed to interrupt the flow of fluid leaving the waste valve and before that flow reaches a grease interceptor. Both the housing and flow control insert are desirably made as a unitary structure from cast metal. Alternatively, the housing can define a ledge that receives a removable disk forming the flow control insert. In both embodiments, the flow control insert that has an opening through the insert that is sized for a flow area according to the needs of the fluid flows that are anticipated in the drainage system in question.