Detent for a self-closing water faucet

• US 3,127,786 A
• Filed: 12/13/1960
• Issued: 04/07/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hubert Wooley William
• Original Assignee: Hubert Wooley William
• Inventors: HUBERT WOOLEY WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US04/075,532
• Time in Patent Office: 1,211 Days
• US Class Current: 74/527
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 21/04 Self-closing valves, i.e. closing automatically after operation pneumatic tools B25B9/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20474 Rotatable rod, shaft, or post
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20636 Detents
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2101 Cams

Claims

1. IN A SELF-CLOSING WATER FAUCET, A HOUSING, A SPRING BIASED VALVE STEM EXTENDING VERTICALLY THROUGH SAID HOUSING, A CAM MEMBER SEATED ON THE TOP OF SAID HOUSING HAVING AN INCLINED SURFACE PROVIDED WITH SPACED DETENTS, PORTIONS OF SAID VALVE STEM DEFINING A VERTICALLY DISPOSED SLOT THERETHROUGH, AN ARM EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY FROM SAID STEM PASSING THROUGH SAID SLOT AND BEING VERTICALLY SLIDABLE THEREIN, BALL MEMBERS ON SAID ARM RIDINGLY EN GAGED WITH SAID INCLINED SURFACE AND ENGAGED SELECTIVELY IN SAID DETENTS A HANDLE OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID VALVE STEM FOR ROTATING SAID VALVE STEM, MEANS DEFINING A PLURALITY OF ANNULAR GROOVES ON SAID VALVE STEM SURROUNDING SAID SLOT, AND A SPRING CLIP SELECTIVELY ENGAGED IN ONE OF SAID GROOVES AND EXTENDING ACROSS A PORTION OF SAID SLOT ABOVE SAID ARM TO LIMIT MOVEMENT OF SAID ARM IN SAID SLOT.