System and valve unit for mixing-delivery sanitary water and/or purified water

• US 8,671,979 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2011
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GM Rubinetterie S.r.l.
• Original Assignee: GM Rubinetterie S.r.l.
• Inventors: Gioira, Luigi, Gioira, Marco
• Primary Examiner(s): Rivell, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hicks, Angelisa
• Application Number:
  US13/339,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20120168000A1
• Time in Patent Office: 810 Days
• Field of Search: 137/597, 137/599.14, 210/433.1
• US Class Current: 137/599.14
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/0404 Constructional or functional features of the spout
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/0411 Taps specially designed for dispensing boiling water
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 2201/40 Arrangement of water treatment devices in domestic plumbing installations
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 2201/45 for carbonated water
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 11/207 with two handles or actuating mechanisms at opposite sides of the housing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6416 With heating or cooling of the system
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87249 Multiple inlet with multiple outlet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87362 Including cleaning, treating, or heat transfer feature

Abstract

The system comprises a valve unit connected to a filtering unit for the selective delivery of cold, hot and mixed sanitary water, respectively either refrigerated or boiling purified water with optional carbonation. The valve unit comprises a base body for housing a first mixer tap, of the cartridge type, which is connected to a first delivery duct of the sanitary water, as well as a second control tap for the purified water, connected to a second delivery duct internal to the previous one. The outlet or each outlet of the purified water of the filtering unit is connected to an inlet of the second control tap, whereas the inlet of the cold water of the filtering unit is directly connected to the inlet of the cold water of the first mixer tap, by means of a branched channel that is provided inside the base body of the valve unit.

Claims

1. A combined tap-group for a selective supply of hot, cold, mixed sanitary water and purified water, comprising

a base body having a first delivery duct provided with a first spout for sanitary water and a second delivery duct provided with a second spout for purified water, said a second delivery duct extending parallel and coaxially to said first delivery duct along a first axis of said base body, said base body being conformed with

a first seat for housing a mixer tap for delivering hot, cold and mixed sanitary water, said mixer tap being in communication with said first delivery duct and with a first inlet channel for cold water and with a second inlet channel for hot water in communication through the mixer tap with said first delivery duct, said first inlet channel for cold water and said second inlet channel for hot water being obtained inside said base body and extending parallel to said first axis from a lower end of said base body;

a second seat for housing a control tap for controlling the flow of purified water, said control tap being in communication with at least one inlet channel for purified water and with the second delivery duct, said control tap and said mixer tap being place on opposite sides of said base body with respect to said first axis and being mutually aligned along a second axis transverse to said first axis;

in said base body there being obtained an additional outlet channel for cold sanitary water, said additional outlet channel being directly machined inside the same base body and being branched from the first inlet channel for cold sanitary water, said additional outlet channel extending parallel to said first inlet channel and said second inlet channel.

2. The combined tap-group according to claim 1, wherein the control tap for the purified water flow is in communication with at least a second inlet for refrigerated, and/or carbonated, and/or boiling purified water.

3. The combined tap-group according to claim 2, wherein the second delivery duct for purified water extends inside the first delivery duct for sanitary water.

4. A system for a selective supply of hot, cold and mixed sanitary water and purified water, comprising:

a filtering unit, with possible refrigeration and/or carbonation device, and or/heating device;

a combined tap-group according to claim 1, hydraulically connected to the filtering unit, wherein the additional outlet channel for cold sanitary water is directly connected to an inlet for cold sanitary water of the filtering unit and at least one inlet for purified water provided in the combined tap-group is directly connected to a corresponding outlet for purified water of the filtering unit.