Adapter for nipple on bath tub spout

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION A RIGHT ANGULAR SPOUT AND AN ADJUSTABLE MULTI-PART ADAPTER TO BE MOUNTED ON A WATER PIPE EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY FROM AND INSTALLED AS A PART OF THE ROUGH PLUMBING WITHIN A BUILDING WALL, THE LOCATION OF THE FINAL FINISHED SURFACE OF WHICH WALL IS INDETERMINATE RELATIVE TO THE OPEN END OF THE ROUGHED IN WATER PIPE, SAID SPOUT HAVING A RIGHT ANGLED DISCHARGE END DOWNWARDLY EXTENDING WHEN ITS PERPENDICULAR OPPOSITE OPEN END IS IN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE SAID FINISHED SURFACE OF SUCH WALL, AND WHICH SPOUT HAS ADJACENT ITS DISCHARGE END INTERNAL THREADING THE TERMINUS OF WHICH NEAREST SAID DISCHARGE OPENING IS AT A STANDARD CONSTANT DIMENSION FROM THE SAID PERPENDICULAR OPPOSITE OPEN END OF SAID SPOUT, SAID ADAPTER COMPRISING A MOUNTING RING SLIDABLE UPON SAID WATER PIPE AND HAVING ITS AFTER END DISPOSED TO ENGAGE THE SAID FINISHED SURFACE OF SUCH WALL AND HAVING AT ITS OPPOSITE END INTERNAL THREADING TERMINATING IN AN INTERNAL ANNULAR SEAT, A SEALING RING IN SAID ANNULAR SEAT ENGAGING SAID WATER PIPE, A NIPPLE SLEEVE SLIDABLE OVER SAID WATER PIPE AND HAVING ONE END THREADEDLY CONNECTED TO THE INTERNAL THREADING IN SAID MOUNTING RING AND ITS OPPOSITE END THREADED INTO THE INTERNAL THREADS OF SAID SPOUT TO A POSITION WHERE SAID THREADED SLEEVE END IS IN SUBSTANTIAL VERTICAL ALIGNMENT WITH SAID TERMINAL END OF THE INTERNAL SPOUT THREADS, THE ASSEMBLED LENGTH OF SAID NIPPLE, SEALING RING AND MOUNTING RING CORRESPONDING TO THAT STANDARD CONSTANT DIMENSION BETWEEN THE INTERNAL THREADING IN SAID SPOUT AND THE WALL ENGAGING OPEN END OF SAID SPOUT, AND FRICTION MEANS FOR SECURING SAID MOUNTING RING TO SAID WATER PIPE WITH ITS AFTER END ENGAGING SAID FINISHED SURFACE OF SUCH WALL, SAID FRICTION MEANS PERMITTING SLIGHT ANGULAR ADJUSTMENT OF SAID MOUNTING RING ON SAID WATER PIPE BUT RESISTING RELATIVE AXIAL MOVEMENT ALONG SAID PIPE.