Head assembly for water purification filter
View Patent ↗Provided is a head assembly for a water purification filter, which includes a head body, a rotation shaft, and a fastening cap. In particular, the rotation shaft is rotated in the state of being placed on a seat protrusion formed on the head body, and a lower seal member is disposed in the portion where the rotation shaft is placed on the seat protrusion. Accordingly, there can be prevented a problem in which the lower seal member departs from a predetermined location during the coupling of the rotation shaft to the head body so that defective assembly occurs.
1. A head assembly for a water purification filter, the head assembly comprising:
a head body formed as a pipe body open on a top and bottom thereof while forming an appearance of the head assembly, and configured such that an open upper end of a water purification filter is accommodated in a lower portion thereof, an inflow pipe and an outflow pipe are provided on both sides thereof, and a seat protrusion is formed to protrude from an inner circumferential surface thereof; and
a rotation shaft: configured to include a seating portion located between the inflow pipe and the outflow pipe inside the head body and installed to be rotatable in a lateral direction in a state of being placed on the seat protrusion, and a coupling portion configured to extend to a bottom of the seating portion while having a smaller diameter than the seating portion and to be coupled to the water purification filter; and configured such that a bypass hole configured to guide raw water, introduced through the inflow pipe of the head body, directly to the outflow pipe and guide holes configured to guide the raw water, introduced into the inflow pipe of the head body, into the water purification filter are formed in a circumferential surface of the seating portion,
wherein:
a protruding seat end configured to protrude inward is further formed on a lower end-side portion of an inner circumferential surface of the seat protrusion; and
a lower end of the seating portion constituting part of the rotation shaft forms a shaft end having a reduced diameter so that the lower end of the seating portion is placed on the protruding seat end while being accommodated inside the seat protrusion.
2. The head assembly of claim 1 , wherein:
a seat projection located opposite to a top surface of the seat protrusion inside the head body is formed to protrude from a lower end-side circumferential surface of the seating portion constituting part of the rotation shaft;
a ring-shaped lower seal member is provided between the seat projection and the seat protrusion; and
a ring-shaped upper seal member is mounted on an upper end-side circumferential surface of the seating portion constituting part of the rotation shaft.
3. The head assembly of claim 1 , wherein:
the protruding seat end is formed to be inclined inward or rounded in a direction toward a bottom thereof; and
a corner of a bottom surface of the shaft end of the seating portion constituting part of the rotation shaft is formed to be placed on the protruding seat end while having a structure of being inclined or rounded in a same shape as the protruding seat end.
4. The head assembly of claim 1 , wherein:
a fastening cap is further provided on an open top surface of the head body; and
a limiting protrusion is formed to protrude from a bottom surface of the fastening cap and a protruding stop protrusion formed to protrude so as to caught on the limiting protrusion of the fastening cap when the rotation shaft is rotated and to thus prevent the rotation shaft from being rotated further is formed on a top surface of the rotation shaft so that a relative rotation angle between the fastening cap and the rotation shaft is limited.