Reversible extension nut for side spray escutcheons

• US 6,018,828 A
• Filed: 10/14/1997
• Issued: 02/01/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Moen, Inc. (Canada) (Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Moen, Inc. (Canada) (Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.)
• Inventors: Loschelder, Todd C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Eloshway, Charles R.
• Application Number:
  US08/949,963
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 4/675-678, 4/695, 411/427, 411/435, 411/437, 137/801
• US Class Current: 4/695
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/0401 Fixing a tap to the sanitary appliance or to an associated mounting surface, e.g. a countertop
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 2201/50 Constructional features of escutcheons for domestic plumbing installations

Abstract

A dual position fastener for use in attaching a plumbing fitting having an exteriorly threaded conduit to sink decks of varying thickness has an elongated, generally cylindrical body with an interior bore. The bore is threaded. There is a radial extension at one end of the elongated body with the radial extension having oppositely facing generally parallel surfaces, which surfaces are essentially normal to the axis of the bore. One of the parallel surfaces is at the end of the fastener, with the other of the parallel surfaces being axially spaced from the one end. Each radial surface is adapted to abut the underside of a sink deck when the fastener is used in attaching a plumbing fitting. The one radial surface abuts the underside of a sink deck and the elongated body extends away from the sink deck in one position or use of the fastener, with the other radial surface abutting the underside of a sink deck and the elongated body extending toward the sink deck in a second position or use of the fastener.

Claims

1. In combination:

a dual position fastener and a plumbing fitting having an exteriorly threaded conduit for connecting said fitting to sink decks of varying thickness, said fastener including an elongated, generally cylindrical body having an interior bore, which bore is threaded throughout substantially the entire length of the body, a radial extension at one end of said elongated generally cylindrical body, said radial extension having oppositely facing generally parallel surfaces, which surfaces are essentially normal to the axis of said bore, one of said surfaces being at and forming one end of said fastener, with the other of said surfaces being axially spaced from said one end and located generally intermediate said one end and another end of said cylindrical body, each radial surface being located to abut the underside of a sink deck when the fastener is used in attaching the plumbing fitting to the sink deck, said radial extension having a radial portion which includes said one radial surface, said radial extension having an axial portion, spaced radially from said body, which axial portion extends from the outermost portion of said radial portion toward the other end of said cylindrical body, with said other radial surface being at one end of said axial portion, and a recess adjacent said bore and located at one end of said fastener, wherein, when said threaded conduit is received through a hole in a sink deck such that it extends below the underside thereof, said one radial surface abuts the underside of the sink deck and said elongated body extends away from the sink deck on said threaded conduit, and when said threaded conduit is similarly received in another sink deck having a second thickness, said other radial surface abuts the underside of the sink deck and the elongated body extends toward the sink deck.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein the thread on said interior bore is discontinuous and formed of diametrically opposed arcuate thread segments.

3. The combination of claim 1, wherein said radial extension, including said axial portion, has a plurality of uniform arcuate segments separated by indentations.