Faucet with removable filter for a water distiller

• US 5,126,041 A
• Filed: 01/18/1991
• Issued: 06/30/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Emerson Electric Company
• Original Assignee: Emerson Electric Company
• Inventors: Weber, Thomas J., Garrison, Dale L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dawson, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WALKER, WANDA LYNNE
• Application Number:
  US07/643,048
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 210/136, 210/232, 210/240, 210/264, 210/282, 210/916.3, 210/429, 210/431, 210/442, 210/449, 210/460, 210/502.1, 55/505
• US Class Current: 210/136
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 35/043 Reversible faucet filters
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/003 using household-type filters for producing potable water, e.g. pitchers, bottles, faucet mounted devices C02F9/20 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2307/06 Mounted on or being part of a faucet, shower handle or showerhead

Abstract

A faucet assembly with removable filter has a bottom housing portion attached to a source of water. A top housing portion that includes a spout means attaches and detaches from the bottom housing portion. A valve assembly carried in the bottom housing is movable between a closed position, blocking the passage of water through the bottom housing portion into the attached top housing portion, and an opened position permitting the passage of water through the bottom housing portion into attached the top housing portion. A filter is removably carried within the hollow interior of the top housing portion between the valve assembly and the spout. The filter makes sealing engagement with the valve assembly and with the spout as the top housing portion is attached to the bottom housing portion. The filter breaks the sealing engagement as the top housing portion is detached from the bottom housing portion to permit removal of the filter from the detached top housing portion without otherwise disconnecting the faucet from the water source.

Claims

1. A faucet assembly with removable filter comprising

a bottom housing portion having means for attachment to a source of water,

a top housing portion having a hollow interior, the top housing portion including a spout,

means for detaching the top housing portion from the bottom housing portion in response to movement of the top housing in one direction relative to the bottom housing portion and for attaching the top housing portion to the bottom housing portion in response to movement of the top housing portion an another direction relative to the bottom housing portion,

a valve assembly carried in the bottom housing, the valve assembly being movable between a closed position blocking the passage of water through the bottom housing portion into the attached top housing portion and an opened position permitting the passage of water through the bottom housing portion into attached the top housing portion,

a filter removably carried within the hollow interior of the top housing portion between the valve assembly and the spout, the filter including means for making sealing engagement with the valve assembly and with the spout as the top housing portion is attached to the bottom housing portion and for breaking the sealing engagement as the top housing portion is detached from the bottom housing portion, thereby permitting removal of the filter from the detached top housing portion.