They are generally found in wet areas such as bathrooms, toilets and kitchens at home. There are types of faucets such as bathroom faucet, sink faucet, sink faucet.
The word faucet is used by the public for the types that have a single tap, but this is a wrong usage. Single tap headed taps are divided into 3 as long tap, short tap and washing tap. There are also types such as garden tap. In addition, there are intermediate taps called "spice tap". Since it is generally used in the toilet, it is used with a wrong word among the people. The word taharat means "tahir", that is "clean" in Arabic. It is used not only for "cleaning", but as an intermediate layer before connecting the armatures to the fresh water system.
Types of faucets that contain more than one tap head are called battery or armature.
History of Armatures
It is known that the Anatolian Seljuks brought water from the springs to the water use facilities such as fountains, baths, and fountains built in Anatolia. In these facilities, especially in the fountains, before pouring directly into the trough, the water sometimes flowed from a stone gutter or a chert carved out of wood, sometimes from a metal pipe to the trough. These metal pipes, which are accepted as the forerunners of the faucet and attached to the places where the water flows in the fountains, were later called "lule". The nozzle, which is widely used in Ottoman fountain architecture and is also a "water measurement unit", was also used during the Seljuk period. The fountains that have survived from the Anatolian Seljuks are almost nonexistent and the number of original fountains is rare. The oldest one among the historical nozzles and taps that survived to the present day in Topkapı Palace is the bronze nozzle on the facade called "Arzhane" of the "Hırka-i Saadet Dairesi" overlooking the Revan and Bağdat Mansions.
In the first years of the Republic Period, the production of taps with motifs developed in the new classical style belonging to the last period of Ottoman art and faucets in the form of double taps continued. New techniques have been developed with the introduction of electricity into the workshops since the 1950s. In these years, glass water was used for sealing on the faucet body and defects caused by casting were filled with solder. In terms of the cleaning of the product, leveling and polishing processes have been applied to the taps and chrome plated has started. With the start of the faucet production industry, quality and quantity that would not need imported products was produced. At the beginning of the 1980s, in addition to the batteries that allow the mixing of hot-cold water with two hands, the mix series with spherical and ceramic disc seal groups that enable the mixture of hot-cold water and the opening and closing of the faucet with one hand movement have been put into use.
