COVERED EYEWASH FOUNTAIN

• US 3,599,251 A
• Filed: 06/06/1969
• Issued: 08/17/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Allen C. Wright
• Original Assignee: Allen C. Wright
• Inventors: Wright, Allen C.
• Application Number:
  US04/831,100
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• US Class Current: 4/620
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 35/02 for the eyes

Abstract

An eyewash fountain especially useful in industrial and laboratory environments to provide a water discharge suitable for flushing irritants from the eyes of a workman. The fountain includes a bowl having a chamber provided with at least one nozzle therein through which an eye-bathing flow of water can be discharged for so flushing the eyes of a workman. A cover ordinarily closes the chamber and overlies such nozzle, and a valve connected in the water supply line controls the flow of water to the nozzle. Operating mechanism interconnecting the valve and cover move the same concurrently upon manual manipulation of a lever provided for this purpose so that when the valve is closed, the cover is in its chamber-covering position and when the valve is open the cover is in its chamberuncovering position.

Claims

1. An eyewash fountain or the like, comprising a bowl defining a chamber having a nozzle therein through which an eye-bathing flow of water can be discharged and having also an outlet for waste, a supply conduit connected with said nozzle and having a valve therealong provided with an operating stem selectively movable between valve-closed and valve-open positions to enable said valve to control the flow of water to said nozzle, a closure cover supported for movement relative to said bowl between chamber-covering and chamber-uncovering positions and being substantially coextensive in area with said bowl and perimetrically engageable therewith in its chamber-covering position to completely close said chamber and cover said nozzle therein, and operating mechanism interconnecting said valve stem and cover so as to move the same concurrently between such closed, chamber-covering and open, chamber-uncovering positions and including a manually operable lever connected directly with said stem for manipulating said valve and equipped with a handhold for convenient hand operation.

2. The fountain of claim 1 and further comprising hinge structure interconnecting said bowl and cover for angular displacements of the latter between such chamber-covering and chamber-uncovering positions, said cover in the latter position thereof being disposed adjacent the rear of said bowl and extending upwardly therefrom at an angular disposition with respect thereto to confine rearward water splash to said bowl.

3. The fountain of claim 2 in which said bowl and cover are generally similar both structurally and dimensionally each being concave and defining a chamber therein, said bowl and cover being respectively equipped with substantially continuous perimetric edges engageable with each other in essentially uninterrupted relation throughout their entire extents to inhibit ingress of contaminants into said chamber.

4. The fountain of claim 3 in which a pair of nozzles are provided within the aforesaid chamber each connected with said supply conduit.