Water saving valve device

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a water saving valve device having a valve body, a coupling unit, a spring, an actuating rod, a push plate, and a packing. A manual manipulating unit is coupled to the coupling unit to manually move the actuating rod up and down, and includes a lower body, a slide bar, a spring, and a locking piece. The lower body is coupled to the coupling unit and has a vertical pipe on its lower portion. The slide bar has on its upper end a magnet, thus vertically moving the actuating rod by magnetic force. The spring is fitted over the lower portion of the slide bar. The upper end of the locking piece is alternately stopped by first and second locking holes when the slide bar moves up and down, and the lower end is supported by the outer circumference of the vertical pipe.

Description

[0001]This application claims benefit of Serial No. 10-2008-0127689, filed 16 Dec. 2008 in South Korea and which application is incorporated herein by reference. To the extent appropriate, a claim of priority is made the above disclosed application.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates generally to water saving valve devices and, more particularly, to a water saving valve device which is installed at a position between a water pipe and a shower head and is manually opened or closed when necessary, thus controlling the discharge of water from the shower head, therefore saving water.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Generally, a home bathroom, public bath, or swimming place is provided with a shower facility. A shower is installed in the shower facility. The shower includes a water pipe which is connected to a water supply pipe, and a shower head which sprays water supplied through the water pipe. A valve or tap is cou...

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Benefits of technology

[0013]Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a water saving valve device, which does not use a solenoid and manually moves an actuating rod up and down, thus preventing malfunction by an electric signal, therefore reducing manufacturing cost and maintenance cost, and which has a small volume, thus making it easy to install, and which is capable of preventing the leakage of water when the supply of power is shut off.

[0020]A catcher may be coupled to the lower end of the slide bar to be easily caught when the slide bar is manually moved up and down.

Problems solved by technology

However, since the conventional water saving valve device uses the solenoid, the malfunction of the valve device frequently occurs at the time of performing the switching operation in response to an electric signal.

Further, the solenoid increases the volume of the valve device, so that installation is limited and manufacturing cost is very high, and maintenance cost is very high due to the use of power.

Further, when the problem of power, for example, the exhaustion of a battery for supplying current occurs, leakage of water may continue.

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