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Round wall-mounted hydrant housing for freezeless wall hydrants

a technology for wall hydrants and enclosure boxes, which is applied in water installations, thin material handling, construction, etc., can solve the problems of affecting the operation of the hydrant inside the enclosure box is frustrated, and the opening is not perfect and clean,

Active Publication Date: 2014-07-22
WCM IND INC
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Benefits of technology

This invention is a hydrant housing that can be easily installed in existing walls or panels. It is designed to be round, which makes it much easier to install compared to traditional hydrant housings that have to be chiseled into the wall. The access hole that is drilled for installation is not very big, which makes it easier to install and not very noticeable once it is done. Overall, this hydrant housing design makes installation a lot easier and more efficient.

Problems solved by technology

Not only is this labor and time intensive, but such a process often results in an imperfect opening without clean, sharp edges.
As such, access to the hydrant inside the housing is frustrated by the tendency of the cover to move to a closed position unless manually held in an open position.

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[0031]With reference to FIGS. 1-7, the numeral 10 designates a housing assembly 10 including a housing 12, having a flat front surface 14, a side surface 16, a flat top surface 18, and a rear surface 20. The front surface 14 is larger in diameter than the rear surface 20, and is the outer surface of flange 22 located around the front of housing interior 23 (FIG. 8). As also shown in FIG. 8, housing interior 23 has an interior side surface 24, an interior top surface 26, and an interior rear surface 28. Housing 12 also has opposite shoulders 30 each having a pin bore 32. Two cover stops 34 protrude from the interior side surface 24 of the housing 12 (FIG. 8). A lock bore 36 is located towards the bottom of interior side surface 24 to receive a conventional lock unit (not shown). As shown in FIG. 7, rear surface 20 of housing 12 has a rectangular-shaped opening 38. Lugs 40 reside on opposite sides of rear opening 38, and hydrant mounting holes 42 are located above and below rear openi...

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Abstract

A round wall-mounted housing for use with freezeless wall hydrants that provides a housing of a round configuration. The round configuration allows for easy installation of the round wall hydrant housing in existing panels or walls. To install, an access hole may be drilled into the desired wall or wall panel without the need for chiseling or chipping. The present invention also provides a cover that can remain in an upright, open position. The cover pivots on a pin connection securing it to the housing. The cover has guides with extended slots that allow the cover to swing to and then lock in an open position.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention relates generally to wall hydrants and, more particularly, to wall-mounted enclosure boxes used with wall hydrants.[0002]Conventional wall hydrant housings or boxes are often of a square or rectangular configuration, but some have an arcuate configuration. Whether round or rectangular, the mounting hole in a concrete wall must be chiseled to form an opening to fit the hydrant housing. Not only is this labor and time intensive, but such a process often results in an imperfect opening without clean, sharp edges.[0003]In addition, the door or cover to a conventional wall hydrant housing oftentimes will not by itself remain in the upright, open position when the hydrant is in use. As such, access to the hydrant inside the housing is frustrated by the tendency of the cover to move to a closed position unless manually held in an open position.[0004]It is therefore a principal object of this invention to provide a wall hydrant housing that ca...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): F16L5/00E03B7/10
CPCE03B7/10Y10T137/6977Y10T137/698
Inventor BALL, WILLIAM T.
Owner WCM IND INC