Water closet tank fill valve

• US 4,903,731 A
• Filed: 06/09/1989
• Issued: 02/27/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: George K. Pappy
• Original Assignee: George K. Pappy
• Inventors: Pappy, George K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chambers, A. Michael
• Application Number:
  US07/363,810
• Time in Patent Office: 263 Days
• Field of Search: 251/15, 251/20, 251/74, 137/624.11, 137/624.22, 222/20
• US Class Current: 137/624.11
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 21/16 closing after a predetermined quantity of fluid has been delivered F16K21/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 15/001 Means for regulating or setting the meter for a predetermined quantity
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/86389 Programmer or timer

Abstract

A water closet valve, automatically closed, following the passage of a predetermined quantity of water therethrough, includes a cylindrical housing having an inlet valve and water passageway at its depending end, is mounted within a water closet on its bottom wall. A manually triggered control wheel unseats the valve by a cam surface on the control wheel which permits water to enter the cylindrical housing and drive a water wheel, in turn driving a gear train connected with the control wheel for angular rotation of the control wheel and its camming surface to a valve closed position after a predetermined number of revolutions of the gears of the gear train.

Claims

1. A self closing valve for a water closet tank, comprising:

an upright casing having a top and having a depending inlet tube forming a water inlet port;

a valve seat in the inlet port;

a valve mating with said seat for opening and closing the inlet port,

said valve having an upstanding stem;

control wheel means including a wheel having a gear rack adjacent its periphery and having a camming surface bearing against the end of said valve stem opposite the valve for seating or unseating said valve in accordance with the angular position of said control wheel;

means biasing said valve toward the valve seat;

water wheel means including a water wheel having radially disposed vanes journalled by the casing adjacent its top;

tube means communicating at one end with the inlet port downstream from the valve seat and having its other end disposed adjacent the water wheel means in water wheel angular rotating position; and

,

water wheel driven gear train means operatively interposed between said water wheel and said control wheel for angularly rotating said control wheel to a valve closed position in response to a predetermined number of revolutions of said water wheel.

2. The valve according to claim 1 in which the control means further includes:

an axial hub on the control wheel; and

,

a lever having a lever stem projecting through the wall of said casing and coaxially entering the control wheel hub for angularly rotating the control wheel manually.

3. The valve according to claim 2 in which the control means further includes:

ratchet means connecting said lever stem with the control wheel hub for manually rotating said lever and said control wheel in one direction as a unit about the axis of said lever stem and permitting angular rotation of said control wheel relative to said lever in said one direction by said gear train means.

4. The valve according to claim 3 and further including:

a horizontal partition adjacent said casing top for forming a water wheel compartment surrounding said water wheel;

bracket means in said water wheel compartment for directing water in a tangential direction toward said water wheel; and

,

a drain tube communicating with the water compartment.

5. The valve according to claim 4 in which the water wheel

further includes:

an axle depending through said partition; and

, a water wheel pinion on the water wheel axle for driving said gear train means.

6. The valve according to claim 5 and further including:

a driven pinion depending from said gear train means and drivably engaged with the gear rack on said control wheel; and

,

other ratchet means interposed between said gear train means and said driven pinion for angularly rotating said control wheel in said one direction and permitting manual angular rotation of said control wheel in said one direction independently of said gear train means.

7. The valve according to claim 1 and further including:

a horizontal partition adjacent said casing top for forming a water wheel compartment surrounding said water wheel;

bracket means in said water wheel compartment for directing water in a tangential direction toward said water wheel; and

,

a drain tube communicating with the water compartment.

8. The valve according to claim 7 in which the water wheel

further includes:

an axle depending through said partition; and

, a pinion on the water wheel axle for driving said gear train means.

9. The valve according to claim 8 and further including:

a driven pinion depending from said gear train means and drivably engaged with the gear rack on said control wheel; and

,

other ratchet means interposed between said gear train means said driven pinion for angularly rotating said control wheel in said one direction and permitting manual angular rotation of said control wheel in said one direction independently of said gear train means.