Faucet rough-in assembly

1 . A rough-in body for a wall-mount faucet, comprising a cold water inlet configured to fluidly couple to a cold water source and a hot water inlet configured to fluidly couple to a hot water source; a first chamber configured to receive a first handle/cartridge assembly and a second chamber configured to receive a second handle/cartridge assembly; an outlet configured to fluidly couple to a faucet spout assembly; a cold water flow channel, a hot water flow channel, and a mixing chamber, wherein each of the cold water inlet, the hot water inlet, the outlet, the first chamber, and the second chamber comprise a central axis, the rough-in valve body is configured to be positioned within a wall by a mounting bracket having a mounting face parallel to the cold water inlet central axis and the hot water inlet central axis, the first chamber central axis, the second chamber central axis, and the outlet central axis are parallel to one another and are perpendicular to the cold water inlet central axis, the hot water central axis, and the mounting face of the mounting bracket, such that the first chamber central axis, the second chamber central axis, and the outlet central axis protrude from the wall and the cold water inlet central axis and the hot water inlet central axis extend vertically inside the wall, the rough-in body comprises a thermoplastic, the cold water inlet, the hot water inlet, the cold water flow channel, the hot water flow channel, the mixing chamber, and the outlet are in flow communication, the outlet comprises: an outer threaded surface configured to threadingly mate with an inner threaded surface of an annular coupling, and an outer unthreaded surface configured to be received within an inner surface of the faucet spout assembly to fluidly couple the outlet to the faucet spout assembly, and the annular coupling comprises an outer threaded surface configured to couple to the faucet spout assembly.

2 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , wherein

the cold water flow channel and the hot water flow channel each comprise a central axis, and

the cold water flow channel central axis and the hot water flow channel central axis are aligned and are perpendicular to the cold water inlet central axis and to the hot water inlet central axis, and are perpendicular to the outlet central axis.

3 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , wherein

the mixing chamber comprises a central axis, and

the mixing chamber central axis is aligned with the outlet central axis.

4 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , comprising an engineering thermoplastic.

5 . The rough-in body according to claim 4 , wherein the engineering thermoplastic is selected from a group consisting of polyamides, polyesters, polycarbonates, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, polysulfones (PSU), polyethersulfones (PESU), cyclic olefin copolymer (COC), acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate (ASA), polyphenylene oxides (PPO), polyphenylene sulfides (PPS), polyphenylenesulfones (PPSU), polyether ether ketones (PEEK), polyethylenimine (PEI), polyphthalamides (PPA), polyacetals, copolymers thereof, and blends thereof.

6 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , comprising a glass-filled polyamide or a glass-filled polyphthalamide.

7 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , comprising an injection molded thermoplastic.

8 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , comprising a body main part and a body rear wall, wherein the body main part and the body rear wall are bonded together to form the hot water flow channel and the cold water flow channel.

9 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , wherein

the cold water inlet and the hot water inlet each comprise a smooth inner surface configured to receive and couple to a threaded adapter, and

once coupled, the threaded adapters are free to rotate within the cold water inlet and the hot water inlet.

10 . The rough-in body according to claim 9 , wherein the cold water inlet and the hot water inlet comprise slot-shaped openings, and the threaded adapters are configured to couple to the cold water inlet and the hot water inlet with a U-clip positioned in the slot-shaped openings.

11 . A rough-in assembly comprising the rough-in body according to claim 1 , and the annular coupling coupled to the outlet.

12 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , wherein the first chamber and the second chamber each comprise an outer threaded surface configured to threadingly mate with the first and the second handle/cartridge assembly, respectively.

13 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , wherein the rough-in body is configured to adjustably threadingly couple to the first handle/cartridge assembly, to the second handle/cartridge assembly, and to the faucet spout assembly, such that the rough-in valve body may be variably positioned within the wall relative to each of the first handle/cartridge assembly, the second handle/cartridge assembly, and the faucet spout assembly.

14 . The rough-in body according to claim 1 , wherein the outlet comprises an annular groove configured to receive an O-ring.

15 . A rough-in assembly comprising the rough-in body according to claim 1 , and threaded adapters coupled to each of the cold water inlet and the hot water inlet.

16 . The rough-in assembly according to claim 15 , wherein the threaded adapters are coupled to the cold water inlet and the hot water inlet with U-clips positioned in slot-shaped openings.

17 . The rough-in assembly according to claim 15 , wherein the threaded adapters comprise brass.

18 . The rough-in assembly according to any of claim 15 , wherein the threaded adapters comprise an inner threaded surface.

19 . A wall-mount faucet assembly comprising the rough-in assembly according to claim 15 , the first and the second handle/cartridge assemblies threadingly coupled to the first chamber and to the second chamber, respectively, and the faucet spout assembly threadingly coupled to the outlet.