Plumbing control assembly

• US 20080048143A1
• Filed: 06/01/2006
• Published: 02/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Drue J. Schlachter, Jeffery S. Gassman
• Original Assignee: Drue J. Schlachter, Jeffery S. Gassman
• Inventors: Gassman, Jeffery S., Schlachter, Drue J.
• Application Number:
  US11/445,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20080048143A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 251/129.04
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/055 Electrical control devices, e.g. with push buttons, control panels or the like

Abstract

An assembly for controlling the flow, and ultimately the temperature, of water in a water supply line to a plumbing fixture that includes at least one valve capable of external activation in fluid connection with the at least one water supply line, the valve being capable of transitioning between a closed position and an open position to regulate flow through the at least one water supply line and at least two electrically operated controls in connection with a valve capable of external activation, wherein one of the controls is remote from the plumbing fixture.

Claims

1. An assembly for controlling flow in at least one water supply line to a plumbing fixture, the assembly comprising:

at least one valve capable of external activation in fluid connection with the at least one water supply line, the valve being capable of transitioning between a closed position and an open position to regulate flow through the at least one water supply line; and

at least two electrically operated controls in electrical connection with the valve for urging the valve to transition between the positions, the plumbing fixture and at least one of the controls being in separate rooms.

2. An assembly for controlling water flow as recited in claim 1, wherein the valve capable of external activation is a solenoid valve.

3. An assembly for controlling water flow as recited in claim 2, wherein the solenoid valve is slow-closing.

4. An assembly for controlling water flow as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one water supply line comprises a hot water supply line and a cold water supply line.

5. An assembly for controlling water flow as recited in claim 1 having two electrically operated controls, wherein a first control is located in or near the plumbing fixture and a second distal control is located at a location remote from the plumbing fixture.

6. An assembly for controlling water flow as recited in claim 1, further comprising at least one water hammer arrester in fluid connection with the at least one water supply line.

7. An assembly for controlling water flow as recited in claim 1, wherein the electrically operated controls are two-way switches.