Alfred Moen,86, Inventor of Single-Handle Faucet
William J. Meyerbeck
CLEVELAND (AP) - Alfred Moen, whose invention of a single-handle faucet led
to the creation of Moen Inc., one of the world's largest producers of
plumbing products, has died. He was 86.
Moen died Tuesday at his home in Destin, Fla. The cause of death was not
known, said a spokeswoman for the company, which is based in suburban North
Olmsted.
Moen Inc. employs 3,500 people and is an operating company of Fortune Brands
Inc., a $5.5-billion-a-year consumer brands company.
Moen came up with the idea for a single-handle faucet in 1937 after he
turned on a two-handle faucet and burned his hands. Moen sold the first
single-handle faucets in 1947. Today more than 70 percent of kitchen faucets
sold in the United States are single-handle, according to the company.
Moen held more than 75 patents and headed the company's research and
development group until his retirement in 1982.
"Al Moen was a giant in the plumbing industry. The conveniences many of us
enjoy in our homes today came from the ideas of this gentle, inventive man,"
said Bruce Carbonari, Moen's chairman and chief executive officer.
Moen is survived by a daughter and a son. No information about funeral
arrangements was available from the company.
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Lawrence Person
<meye...@softhome.nocrap2.net> wrote:
> CLEVELAND (AP) - Alfred Moen, whose invention of a single-handle faucet led
> to the creation
of an ever more-baffling array of bizarre plumbing fixtures whose use is
not obvious upon first glance. (My own bathtub has one of those
inscruitable "ring on the outside for water flow and ring on the inside to
adjust temperature, both of which are supposed to move independently of
each other but generally don't" designs.) Now we know who to blame...
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Brian Watson
"Lawrence Person" <lawrenc...@jump.net> wrote in message
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> In article <9bl83u$enk$0...@pita.alt.net>, "William J. Meyerbeck"
> <meye...@softhome.nocrap2.net> wrote:
>
> > CLEVELAND (AP) - Alfred Moen, whose invention of a single-handle faucet
led
> > to the creation
>
> of an ever more-baffling array of bizarre plumbing fixtures whose use is
> not obvious upon first glance.
You get them too?
:-)
I'm sure many of the thousands of shoppers who hit the home improvement
stores each weekend are as kinky about plumbing gadgets as I am about office
equipment that promises much but never really performs as promised.
I mean, who needs that many plastic wallet options!?
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Brian
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Brian
trippy
I have burnt myself or froze myself whilst washing my hands more times than I
care
to know
I classify this late individual in the same crap category as the guy who
invented the parking meter.
MadCow57
I have burnt myself or froze myself whilst washing my hands more times than I
care
The guy I want to talk to is the one who installed the faucets in the galley on
my boat. The hot and cold handles turn in opposite directions, and the water
heater produces tea-making temperatures.
Carl Navarro
Somewhat off-topic, but try adjusting the tempereature of the
water-heater. There ought to be a adjustment in the base where the
element goes into the tank.
Carl Navarro
MadCow57
water-heater. There ought to be a adjustment in the base where the
Thanks, I'll look. Of course that will mean another episode of lying across
the engine with my head amost in the bilge, and looking at everything upside
down while blood rushes to my head.
That's also my excuse for trying to screw the plug into the A/C cup in the
wrong direction.
Boats are interesting.